Steam is adding a new default option for game updates

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Valve is testing an option successful the caller Steam lawsuit beta that volition unit games by default to lone download updates erstwhile you motorboat them.

Currently, Steam by default decides what crippled updates to download based connected a fewer antithetic things. As explained by Valve:

For games you precocious played, Steam volition download crippled updates soon aft they are released. For games that you haven’t played successful a while, Steam mightiness hold a fewer days to bundle aggregate updates unneurotic oregon take to download the update portion you are asleep.

This caller default enactment to hold to download an update gives players much control; arsenic Valve points out, it means that users tin clasp an updating a monolithic crippled until they really privation to play it, which could beryllium a alleviation for radical with bandwidth caps.

You’ll find the caller enactment successful the beta Steam lawsuit settings nether the Downloads section. “You tin acceptable the default to: fto Steam determine erstwhile to update the crippled (based connected factors similar erstwhile you past played the game, bandwidth availability, etc.) oregon hold to update until the crippled is launched,” Valve says.

You tin inactive acceptable per-game download settings successful a game’s Properties that override the planetary setting, but those options person “cleaned up descriptions,” according to Valve. And with the beta, you tin besides negociate the per-game overrides successful the wide Steam lawsuit Downloads settings.