Valve is testing an choice within the new Steam shopper beta that can power video games by default to solely obtain updates if you launch them.
Presently, Steam by default decides what recreation updates to obtain based mostly on just a few various things. As defined by Valve:
For video games you latterly performed, Steam will obtain recreation updates shortly after they’re launched. For video games that you simply haven’t performed shortly, Steam would possibly wait just a few days to bundle a number of updates collectively or select to obtain the replace when you are asleep.
This new default choice to attend to obtain an replace provides gamers extra management; as Valve factors out, it implies that customers can maintain an updating a large recreation till they really need to play it, which could possibly be a aid for folks with bandwidth caps.
You’ll discover the brand new choice within the beta Steam shopper settings underneath the Downloads part. “You’ll be able to set the default to: let Steam determine when to replace the sport (based mostly on elements like if you final performed the sport, bandwidth availability, and so on.) or wait to replace till the sport is launched,” Valve says.
You’ll be able to nonetheless set per-game obtain settings in a recreation’s Properties that override the worldwide setting, however these choices have “cleaned up descriptions,” based on Valve. And with the beta, it’s also possible to handle the per-game overrides within the general Steam shopper Downloads settings.
