Steam Games

Is it just me or are steam games generally slower than direct downloaded games?

Do you mean a slower framerate while playing or a slower download speed?

You should. choose closest server to your country to get biggest down speed..

for me it depends on the game, some of the games i have downloaded are ready within minutes but there have been a few that have taken like an hour or too, it depends where the server of the game is too, in case of the game being an online game that is