Because of the coronavirus and quarantine pandemic, many people are forced to stay at home or work remotely. All this can lead to network congestion, which is trying to prevent Valveby changing the automatic update settings in Steam for distribution of peak load.
As a rule, Steam plans updates for games that users have not played for a long time, for the next non-peak period in local time. However, from this week, developers began to stretch these updates for a few more days.
Games that are launched only in the last three days will be updated immediately. However, the game will still be updated immediately if you run it. Also, you can always start or pause the update manually.
In addition, Valve recalled some features of the Steam client that will allow users to independently manage bandwidth.
- Create an auto-update schedule so that Steam does not start updating the game at the height of the working day.
- Do not download auto-updates for rarely launched games.
- Limit download speed yourself.
- Use the function of the library folders and move rarely run games from the SSD to the hard disk so as not to delete and reinstall them later.
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