Every game in Steam needs updated?

[Xi Jinping 习近平]

All the sudden, every single game in my Steam library needed updated. Is this a glitch or is someone trying to give me a virus? That was my first thought. The reason I post this in GTA disscussions is because a bunch of people hate me online and it's possible one of them did this if it is a virus.

[Andersona7x]

A few minutes ago my gta v just updated lool,very stranger

[Kenshi +]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarthWound:

Valve is working on repositories, it's normal, nothing to worry about.

Repositories? Care to explain?

[Saitech]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Weashoo:

All the sudden, every single game in my Steam library needed updated. Is this a glitch or is someone trying to give me a virus? That was my first thought. The reason I post this in GTA disscussions is because a bunch of people hate me online and it's possible one of them did this if it is a virus.

I just had 21 of my games update one after another with 0 bytes, it looks like you're not alone :)

[_Fleeting Time_]

may be u use your integrated graphics to play GTAV

[Xi Jinping 习近平]

Alright then, I'll go ahead with the updates

[ĐɛʌƉƓʊƔ]

but mine already did the updates :(
all 300+ of them

[Kenshi +]

It seems Steam is downloading Directx files for all games that uses those.

[ĐɛʌƉƓʊƔ]

I know, i deliberatly take them all out too, when you have hundreds of games it winds up taking up alot of space. :(

[VikingGekz]

This is highly unacceptable.

Delete to redownload to delete loops.

[InsaneMatt]

Got to say, this is not on Valve.
Some of us have slow internet connections, some even have data caps! Implement a more graceful procedure.

Deleting files, only for the EXACT files to be re-downloaded is a stupidly floored system.

[DemonhunterCXV]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarthWound:

Don't do the updates. Restart Steam client.

So uh..what if we did the updates already?

[InsaneMatt]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DemonhunterCXV:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarthWound:

Don't do the updates. Restart Steam client.

So uh..what if we did the updates already?

Prepare for all of those titles to redownload 100 to 400 megabytes... Each!
Welcome to my suffering.

[General Berkowski]

0 byte to download... So nothing downloaded...

[InsaneMatt]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von General Berkowski:

0 byte to download... So nothing downloaded...

That's because it's running a SCRIPT instead.
So while nothing has downloaded, the client still received a moronic "delete these files" command from the servers. This then triggers the "update available" alarm bells for the client shortly after.

[Minoris]

Restarting Steam doesn't do nuts though. It just goes ahead and resumes downloading them.