Steam is including a brand new default possibility for recreation updates

The valve is making an attempt an possibility within the new beta model of the Steam shopper that may power video games to obtain updates by default solely whenever you launch them.

At the moment, Steam decides by default which recreation updates to obtain primarily based on a number of various things. As Valve explains:

For video games you performed lately, Steam will obtain recreation updates shortly after they’re launched. For video games you have not performed shortly, Steam could wait a number of days to bundle a number of updates or select to obtain the replace whilst you sleep.

This new default possibility of ready to obtain an replace offers gamers extra management; As Valve factors out, it means customers can hold updating an enormous recreation till they really wish to play it, which might be a aid for folks with bandwidth limits.

You may discover the brand new possibility within the Steam beta shopper settings within the Downloads part. “You possibly can set the default to: let Steam resolve when to replace the sport (primarily based on components like whenever you final performed, 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 world settings, however these choices have “clear descriptions,” in accordance with Valve. And with the beta, you can even handle per-game overrides within the common Downloads settings of the Steam shopper.