Don’t forget the changelog that reads something like:
- Fixed a number of bugs
Which, judging from the update size, makes you think the bugs are misnamed HD textures.
On steam if you go into offline mode, then restart the client you can start a game without updating.
You can also set specific games to not update automatically.
unless this changed in the last 2 years, steam detects if a game has an “update pending” so regardless if you go offline, if it detected there was an update it prevents the game from launching. I tried to get around my parents crap download with that trick and it failed.
You can usually go launch with the games executable, even if it’s already started updating!
Last week, simply restarting (exiting and opening) the client got around that.
That’s why I like old offline games like Skyrim, the only updates I get are mods and when I want. Or I can just turn updates off.
old offline games like Skyrim
Oof! You’re technically right since it’s from 2011 and the “forced online single player games” scourge is endemic by now, but that made me feel ancient 😬😂
Goddamn MS Flight Sim is on Steam, but doesn’t update with Steam and forces you to choke down a 40GB update after you launch the game.
OMG YES! That shit was like a sleezy bait-and-switch, hiding that chungus download behind the initial installer.
Lmao yep that is exactly what happened to me and I audibly exclaimed “what the actual fuck”
This was my first thought, too. I loathe that STUPID MUSIC by now. I can hear it as I type this. “Duuuuuun duuuuuuuun dooooooo…” Over and over and over and over.
As a Gameboy Color user, I am unfamiliar.
Disable automatic downloads if it isn’t a multiplayer game, and if it is get a singleplayer plan b game (make sure to allow downloads in the background if on steam that way the other game updates while you play)
Yeah Steam Deck is cool but…god DAMN the update frequency.
Oh wow, I didn’t even consider checking for updates while I’m working from home.
Can’t just shut down comp too, it really wants to update, now ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
BWAAAAAH!
Flight simulator every time
Is there no decent ISP where you live?
Let’s consider a “decent” Internet speed of 200 mb/a. That’s 25 MB/s so it’d take 1,600 seconds to download 40,000 MB. That’s 26 minutes, so nearly half of your time is gone. Plus there is always time spent doing something like “installing”, checking the files, or whatever other stuff needs to be done besides just downloading the raw content.
Also, you don’t always get 100% of your advertised Internet speed 100% of the time.
Until just a year or two ago a 40gb update would take as much as 3 or 4 days to download and it would take up almost all of my data. Even most of America still has shitty internet.
Tbh I would not consider 200 decent. Gigabit minimum in 2023
Don’t pretend that any more than 1% of users would use anywhere near that much bandwidth. Even if you had five devices streaming 4K video all at once, you’d barely saturate a 200 Mb/s connection.
Large file transfers are the exception, not the norm. People don’t tend to regularly download or upload several gigabyte files on a daily basis. Maybe 2-3% of people who are either tech enthusiasts or graphics designers/artists/film makers do that but nobody else does, and even then 200-400 Mb/s will still be fine, nowhere near a hair-pullingly slow experience.
It doesn’t matter, I have a decent bandwidth and still end up losing interest while updating the OS and then the game I intend to play. I end up on TikTok or playing Switch.
Back home a 40gb download was balls. 40 was almost my whole weekend at 1.2 down.
