Steam Is Adding A New Default Option For Game Updates

Valve is testing an action successful nan caller Steam customer beta that will portion games by default to only download updates erstwhile you motorboat them.

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

For games you precocious played, Steam will download crippled updates soon aft they are released. For games that you haven’t played successful a while, Steam mightiness clasp a less days to bundle aggregate updates together aliases return to download nan update while you are asleep.

This caller default action to clasp to download an update gives players overmuch control; arsenic Valve points out, it intends that users tin clasp an updating a monolithic crippled until they really want to play it, which could beryllium a alleviation for group pinch bandwidth caps.

You’ll find nan caller action successful nan beta Steam customer settings nether nan Downloads section. “You tin group nan default to: fto Steam find erstwhile to update nan crippled (based connected factors for illustration erstwhile you past played nan game, bandwidth availability, etc.) aliases clasp to update until nan crippled is launched,” Valve says.

You tin still group per-game download settings successful a game’s Properties that override nan world setting, but those options personification “cleaned up descriptions,” according to Valve. And pinch nan beta, you tin too negociate nan per-game overrides successful nan wide Steam customer Downloads settings.