Steam is including a brand new default possibility for sport updates

Valve is testing an possibility within the new Steam consumer beta that can power video games by default to solely obtain updates while you launch them.

At the moment, Steam by default decides what sport updates to obtain primarily based on a couple of various things. As defined by Valve:

For video games you lately performed, Steam will obtain sport updates shortly after they’re launched. For video games that you just haven’t performed shortly, Steam would possibly wait a couple of days to bundle a number of updates collectively or select to obtain the replace if you are 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 a large sport till they really need to play it, which might be a aid for individuals with bandwidth caps.

You’ll discover the brand new possibility within the beta Steam consumer settings below the Downloads part. “You’ll be able to set the default to: let Steam determine when to replace the sport (primarily based on components like while 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 sport’s Properties that override the worldwide setting, however these choices have “cleaned up descriptions,” in response to Valve. And with the beta, you too can handle the per-game overrides within the total Steam consumer Downloads settings.