How to stop Deck updates while in-game?

[G'Kyl]

I love this machine, but man: Having it update while I'm playing a game is among the most outrageous and honestly downright stupid features ever implemented about anywhere. It happens when an update is available and you wake up the Deck from sleep mode. Is there a way to disable this? I haven't found any.

[medusatransducer]

It never used to do that. Are you sure it is actively updating? It has always stopped updated whenever I have launched a game from cold anyway. But I will say the other day I noticed a game had installed in the background while I was playing Hades, so I actually wondered if it depends on the intensity of the game you are playing, how many CPU cycles it eats up etc? Maybe the update is happening because you are playing a lightweight game?

[Mahjik]

In Settings -> Downloads, there an option for "Allow downloads during gameplay". I do believe this is disabled by default, but check it anyway.

For the other, turning on your device and having downloads, you can do one of two things:

1. You can disable the Shader Cache downloads. You have to do that from Desktop Mode. That will stop downloading the pre-rendered Shaders which is what you are getting.

2. You can set each game to only download updates when launched. This stops games from updating until you want to play them. So if you have 40 games loaded but you are only actively playing 5, the others won't update until you launch them. You can set this per game, or there is a script out there that will set it on your entire library.

[G'Kyl]

Originally posted by Mahjik:

In Settings -> Downloads, there an option for "Allow downloads during gameplay". I do believe this is disabled by default, but check it anyway.

Will this disable Deck updates as well? Cause I'm not concerned about games being updated, it's the Deck itself applying an update while a game is running.

Also, I need to enable notifications for posts in threads I created. ;)

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by G'Kyl:

Originally posted by Mahjik:

In Settings -> Downloads, there an option for "Allow downloads during gameplay". I do believe this is disabled by default, but check it anyway.

Will this disable Deck updates as well? Cause I'm not concerned about games being updated, it's the Deck itself applying an update while a game is running.

Also, I need to enable notifications for posts in threads I created. ;)

I'm not sure what you mean by "Deck Updates". There are four main types of updates:

* Game
* Shader cache
* Steam Client
* SteamOS

The later two typically require you to apply them manually (unless you restart Steam and then a Steam Client update will be automatically applied). For example, when you launch Desktop Mode, it starts a Steam Client. If you have a Steam Client update pending, it will be automatically applied going to Desktop mode.