Steam is including a brand new default possibility for recreation updates

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

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

For video games you lately performed, Steam will obtain recreation updates shortly after they’re launched. For video games that you just haven’t performed shortly, Steam would possibly wait a number of days to bundle a number of updates collectively or select to obtain the replace when you are asleep.

This new default possibility to attend to obtain an replace offers gamers extra management; as Valve factors out, it implies that customers can maintain an updating an enormous recreation till they really need to play it, which may very well 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 resolve when to replace the sport (primarily based 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’ll be able to nonetheless set per-game obtain settings in a recreation’s Properties that override the worldwide setting, however these choices have “cleaned up descriptions,” based on Valve. And with the beta, you may also handle the per-game overrides within the total Steam consumer Downloads settings.