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Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Larian has finally confirmed that preloading won't be available, apparently because of a limitation with Steam.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Not everything can be easily compressed to significantly smaller sizes. In fact, for any random arrangement of bytes, finding one that is compressable by any significant amount is rare.