Ps4 can you play games while downloading

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Mathias Mathias You should add that it's still possible that the game will "stop" at a certain point if the download is too slow. Dragon Age Inquisition will stop after the "toturial boss" has been defeated if the game did not download completely at this point. However, that you can play as you download the remainder of the game is intended, so it shouldn't do any more harm then playing the game normally.

Here's a discussion about the play while download feature gamefaqs. Perfect then. I was kinda scared that the game could have some problems or my saves will not work after the whole download was done.

Zarathustrax Nope, just play :. The only problem you can encounter, is that you hit the maximum playability,as pointed out by Nitro.

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Originally posted by Greece4ever :. Or play a non Steam game whilst the Steam game downloads. White View Profile View Posts. Start the game you want to play Alt tab to steam and hit downloads. Then resume the download you want. And finally return to your already opened game.

For Individual games you can either set them to follow Steam settings usually not to download while playing or can set something different in Properties for each game. Gator13 nosound View Profile View Posts. You can play while downloading as long as you have made sure you ticked the box that allows you to.