As posted in another thread, I treated myself to a new PC after many many years. My new PC came with a freebie (Borderlands 3 or The Outer Worlds). I ended up selecting TOWs. Anyway, this is my 1st download with Epic Games and it is slow as #@$%. For those of you more familiar with EG, are their downloads always so d@mn slow?
I don't think I've experienced that, but I'll watch more carefully next time I download something.
I've found their downloads to be considerably slower than Steam, yes.
All that Tencent money and they won't splurge for bandwidth?
I haven't compared their speeds with Steam (which would be quite unfair as Steam has download servers all across the globe), but they were fine when I downloaded large games through them (Fornite back in the day, The Outer Worlds and Phoenix Point).
One (relatively dumb) question - did you check app settings to see if maybe it's throttled at all?
I know when I'm playing an online game I purposely throttle my steam DL speed because updates have a tendency to pop when they want.
^Thanks for the suggestion, but after digging into the Epic launcher, I can't see/find any options that would slow it down or speed it up (except for a Proxy option that I suspect would just slow things down even more). Doing a little searching on the internet, I see others complaining about the speed, so it is what it is, at least for now.
p.s. and yes Downloads during gameplay are off.