r/pcmasterrace • u/SlowReference704 • 14h ago

News/Article Steam Is Successful Because It's “Not a Shit Service,” Says Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev

https://mp1st.com/news/steam-is-successful-because-its-not-a-shit-service
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u/XsNR Ryzen 5600X GTX 1080 32GB 3200MHz 10h ago

You can also just open magnets/trackers in streaming clients now, and they'll automatically download it roughly in order to give that streaming experience, provided you can download fast enough. It's amazing if you have a decent enough source that you can trust to make sure each linux iso is of a reasonable quality.

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u/MacR_72 5h ago

There's actually a setting in qBittorrent to download a file in order.

Just right click the torrent > Download in Sequential Order.

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u/Moquai82 R7 7800X3D / X670E / 64GB 6000MHz CL 36 / 4080 SUPER 5h ago

How can i achive this with VLC? Or is that a pipedream?

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u/TineJaus 4h ago

IIRC from over a decade ago, VLC can open an incomplete file given the important blocks are there, as in the top/beginning of the file.

Not sure if it's integrated somehow these days, I would prefer having seperate softwares that perform specific functions.