Valve is testing an option within the new Steam consumer beta that may pressure video games by default to solely obtain updates once you launch them.
At present, 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 may wait just a few days to bundle a number of updates collectively or select to obtain the replace while you’re asleep.
This new default possibility to attend to obtain an replace offers gamers extra management; as Valve factors out, it signifies that customers can maintain an updating an enormous recreation till they really wish to play it, which could possibly be a reduction for folks with bandwidth caps.
You’ll discover the brand new possibility within the beta Steam consumer settings below the Downloads part. “You possibly can set the default to: let Steam determine when to replace the sport (based mostly on components like once you final performed the sport, bandwidth availability, and so forth.) or wait to replace till the sport is launched,” Valve says.
You possibly can nonetheless set per-game obtain settings in a recreation’s Properties that override the worldwide setting, however these choices have “cleaned up descriptions,” in accordance with Valve. And with the beta, you may as well handle the per-game overrides within the total Steam consumer Downloads settings.