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[Mr Bigglesworth]

I don't know about Valve's curating of it's software library, but I would appreciate the ability to turn off automatic updates for games and software I've installed through Steam.

 

[Mr Bigglesworth]

I don't know about Valve's curating of it's software library, but I would appreciate the ability to turn off automatic updates for games and software I've installed through Steam.

Pretty sure you can right-click the game in steam, go to properties and turn off auto updates.

They got rid of that a few years ago.

Edit: You can defer it until you open the game/software though.

 

[Mr Bigglesworth]

I don't know about Valve's curating of it's software library, but I would appreciate the ability to turn off automatic updates for games and software I've installed through Steam.

Pretty sure you can right-click the game in steam, go to properties and turn off auto updates.

They got rid of that a few years ago.

Edit: You can defer it until you open the game/software.

Well shit. I didn't believe you, so I opened Steam, and under Automatic updates, they have three options:
1. Always keep this game up to date
2. Only update this game when I launch it
3. High Priority - Always auto-update this game before others.

Unless I am missing something, it looks like you are absolutely correct and Steam is forcing updates.

It's really painful when I want to play a game that's been modded like Fallout 4 or Skyrim SE to make a quick funny machinima video and updates happen.

 

[Mr Bigglesworth]

I don't know about Valve's curating of it's software library, but I would appreciate the ability to turn off automatic updates for games and software I've installed through Steam.

Pretty sure you can right-click the game in steam, go to properties and turn off auto updates.

They got rid of that a few years ago.

Edit: You can defer it until you open the game/software.

Well shit. I didn't believe you, so I opened Steam, and under Automatic updates, they have three options:
1. Always keep this game up to date
2. Only update this game when I launch it
3. High Priority - Always auto-update this game before others.

Unless I am missing something, it looks like you are absolutely correct and Steam is forcing updates.

"Only update this game when I launch it" - Since this option will stop the app from being updated and consuming download limits if you never play it I can only assume you want an option to stick with a specific version of the game?

Yes, that's pretty much it. Updates keep breaking my mods. Having the game try to update right as you're trying to play it is pretty annoying as well, especially when the updates were just for new in-game stuff you can buy rather than a reliability patch or fixing bugs.

 

[Mr Bigglesworth]

I don't know about Valve's curating of it's software library, but I would appreciate the ability to turn off automatic updates for games and software I've installed through Steam.

Pretty sure you can right-click the game in steam, go to properties and turn off auto updates.

edit: I have to eat crow. I tried to block updates in a steam game and didn't see any options to do so.

Guessing you're like me, and just assumed the "auto updates" dropdown would have an option to turn it off.

They actually used to have that. I think it was around 2013 or 2014 they changed those options.

 

[Mr Bigglesworth]

Yes, that's pretty much it. Updates keep breaking my mods. Having the game try to update right as you're trying to play it is pretty annoying as well, especially when the updates were just for new in-game stuff you can buy rather than a reliability patch or fixing bugs.

I can't be certain, since I don't do mods much, if at all, but I think you can work around this by going into offline mode prior to launching the game in question.

But if you launch the game while online and there's an update, you're pretty much stuck with it.

Thanks for the tip. I haven't used offline mode in a while and almost forgot it existed. Just tried it out on the handful of games the auto-updates were affecting badly and they seem to work in offline mode. I would of course miss out on the benefits of online mode, but this workaround is definitely do-able.