Intelligent game loading

A system including a processor, comprising:

• a video source configured to provide a streaming video to a first client geographically remote from the video source, the streaming video being compressed by an encoder of the video source;
• the video source generating the streaming video that is generated at the video source responsive to a present game state of a computer game program;
• a download manager configured to dynamically determine, responsive to the present game state of the computer game program, a download sequence of a plurality of parts of an executable content of the computer game program, the download manager configured to download parts of the executable content according to the download sequence in parallel with the streaming video provided to the first client from the video source;
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• transition logic for transitioning from a server side mode of game execution during the streaming to a client side mode of game execution in which game logic is executed on the client to render the video stream based on the game state.

A method comprising:

• providing a video source configured to provide a streaming video to a first client geographically remote from the video source, the streaming video being compressed by an encoder of the video source, the video source generating the streaming video that is generated at the video source responsive to a present game state of a computer game program;
• managing download of the computer game program, during downloading, dynamically determining, based on the present game state of the computer game program, a download sequence of a plurality of parts of an executable content of the computer game program, and downloading parts of the executable content according to the download sequence in parallel with the streaming video provided to the first client from the video source;
• transitioning from a server side mode of game execution during the streaming to a client side mode of game execution in which game logic is executed on the client to render the video stream based on the game state;
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• during the managing of download, modifying the download sequence based on probabilities of other game states of the computer game program being reached from the present game state, the method being executed by a processor.