Do games download while playing other games ps4

Topic Archived Page 1 of 2 Last. Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to post messages, change how messages are displayed, and view media in posts. User Info: dynamitesneon. User Info: mindandsoul. Id like to know this too. Obviously if you play MP it should stop to preserve your bandwidth but anything else should allow background dl. Hope they saw this and changed it.

User Info: Mikuraga. Yes, the only time you would have to close any application to go into the menus is when playing a blu-ray disc. I've had a game, netflix and nhl gamecenter all open at the same time and could switch between them and the system menu with no problems.

Mikuraga posted I think you misunderstood the question, and I'm not sure how you did it. User Info: ScreamingMidget. The PS3 would stop all downloads when you did -anything- on the system other than browse the store. Discussions Rules and Guidelines. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts.

All rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. Some geospatial data on this website is provided by geonames. View mobile website. Learn more. How do I continue downloading a game in Steam while playing? Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 4 months ago. Active 6 years, 6 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Kaiylar 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Drake Drake I assume that Steam thinks you want to play online and downloading will hurt your ping.

We really should be able to configure this on a per-game basis. I like to play offline because I can leave other things downloading in the meantime. I filed a support ticket asking Valve to at least not pause downloads when they know the game you're launching does not support multiplayer they obviously can't for non-Steam games or games which have both singleplayer and multiplayer.

That must've been two years ago or so Your rep bounty has paid dividends, great question, Drake! I'm playing a single player game. That's no reason for Steam to pause downloads. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Improve this answer. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. User Info: tisuko. You can play it while the patch downloads.

You just can't play online till it finishes patching. You can play while it downloads Okay, sounds good. Thank you for your reply. I could have waited the 45 minutes, but I'm glad to hear I don't have to. Unlike PS3, stuff downloads in the background now. Its quicker in rest mode though. Yeah, no kidding there. The PS3's installation times took forever compared to the PS4. I noticed that right out of the gate.

One question though: how exactly do the new updates from a patch integrate into the game while I'm playing the game?