Originally Posted by RemingtonRyder
Edit: On a hunch I decided to test the write speed of the disk I'm using for games and got a strange result (which might explain the slow patching) so I shut down my PC, unplugged the drive, plugged it back in, and now the speed looks good.
Windows turns external drives off when it decides your system has been too ideal
This is why they are only good for storage and will corrupt files if you try to run things from them

P.s, yes both steam and gog galaxy support pulse / resume of downloads as long as their temp folder is working

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