danpaul88 Messages: 5795 Registered: June 2004 Location: England
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Indeed it does. As for lag caused by this, Stealtheye has previously said this about it;
StealthEye wrote on Wed, 26 September 2012 21:05
As for lag caused by downloading: it will not really decrease the server to client data stream, but it can make it less reliable (packets not arriving, causing latency) if your connection is exhausted. The download should theoretically automatically throttle back in that case, although I have never carefully studied this.