is there a way to stop auto downloads on starting steam

[A-WOL-OWL]

as per title.
every time im loading steam i have to fiddle with the interface, move the friends login window and stop the downloads. Is there a check box to stop steam auto downloading on startup ?
I like to manage the downloads myself and steam swamps the connection.

thx

[A-WOL-OWL]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από d3str0y3r:

You can set games individually to only update on game launch.

i suppose that is a work around of some sort.

thx

[A-WOL-OWL]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από d3str0y3r:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Owly:

i suppose that is a work around of some sort.

thx

Sadly that is the only way to do it. It would be nice if you could just disable auto updates for all games.

it would.

thx again.

[rawWwRrr]

You can kinda automate a blanket change to all of your installed games.

I have a lot of games installed and I wanted to change the update setting to High Priority on all of them without having to set each one manually. I did this with Notepad++ and it's Find In Files function.

Make sure to have Steam completely shutdown before doing any of this.

"AutoUpdateBehavior" "0"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "1"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "2"

The "AutoUpdateBehavior" setting in the .acf files dictate the update setting.

0 - Always keep this game updated
1 - Only update this game when I launch it
2 - High priority - Always auto-update this game before others

Notepad++ is a free and powerful notepad application.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

With Notepad++ Find in Files function, you would search for the update setting you don't want in "Find what". You would put the update setting that you want in "Replace with". Filters would be set to *.acf and your Directory would be the library's steamapps folder.

You can run for Find All first to test and see if it finds what you're looking for and then use Replace in Files to change it every file it finds.

After making the change, start Steam again and it may have to do a quick verify or download an "update" on a few of the games.

If I run it on the games I have installed now, it finds two of them set for "Always keep this game updated".
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2990108036

After running it again but this time replacing, you can see at the bottom it says it replaced those two occurrences.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2990108673

Of course, do all of this at your own risk. I'm not sure what happens if you screw it up and damage the .acf files. But as I said, this is what I did. If you notice in my first screenshot, there are 1656 acf files is searched. 1656 games installed. I wasn't about to do them all manually. I needed to find a way to change them in bulk. Any new additions, afterwards, are easier to set to High Priority as they get added.

edit: had 0 and 1 backwards. fixed
edit2: replaced imgur pics with Steam Artwork pics

[A-WOL-OWL]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από rawWwRrr:

You can kinda automate a blanket change to all of your installed games.

I have a lot of games installed and I wanted to change the update setting to High Priority on all of them without having to set each one manually. I did this with Notepad++ and it's Find In Files function.

Make sure to have Steam completely shutdown before doing any of this.

"AutoUpdateBehavior" "0"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "1"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "2"

The "AutoUpdateBehavior" setting in the .acf files dictate the update setting.

0 - Always keep this game updated
1 - Only update this game when I launch it
2 - High priority - Always auto-update this game before others

Notepad++ is a free and powerful notepad application.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

With Notepad++ Find in Files function, you would search for the update setting you don't want in "Find what". You would put the update setting that you want in "Replace with". Filters would be set to *.acf and your Directory would be the library's steamapps folder.

You can run for Find All first to test and see if it finds what you're looking for and then use Replace in Files to change it every file it finds.

After making the change, start Steam again and it may have to do a quick verify or download an "update" on a few of the games.

If I run it on the games I have installed now, it finds two of them set for "Always keep this game updated".
https://i.imgur.com/rYmfy81.png

After running it again but this time replacing, you can see at the bottom it says it replaced those two occurrences.
https://i.imgur.com/4VU52F2.png

Of course, do all of this at your own risk. I'm not sure what happens if you screw it up and damage the .acf files. But as I said, this is what I did. If you notice in my first screenshot, there are 1656 acf files is searched. 1656 games installed. I wasn't about to do them all manually. I needed to find a way to change them in bulk. Any new additions, afterwards, are easier to set to High Priority as they get added.

edit: had 0 and 1 backwards. fixed

Nice guide. This might be useful for windows users looking for the same thing.
Im on Linux and i think something similar to this should probably work the same.

Thanks again

[./nlopreste2.sh]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Pix-Owl:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από rawWwRrr:

You can kinda automate a blanket change to all of your installed games.

I have a lot of games installed and I wanted to change the update setting to High Priority on all of them without having to set each one manually. I did this with Notepad++ and it's Find In Files function.

Make sure to have Steam completely shutdown before doing any of this.

"AutoUpdateBehavior" "0"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "1"
"AutoUpdateBehavior" "2"

The "AutoUpdateBehavior" setting in the .acf files dictate the update setting.

0 - Always keep this game updated
1 - Only update this game when I launch it
2 - High priority - Always auto-update this game before others

Notepad++ is a free and powerful notepad application.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

With Notepad++ Find in Files function, you would search for the update setting you don't want in "Find what". You would put the update setting that you want in "Replace with". Filters would be set to *.acf and your Directory would be the library's steamapps folder.

You can run for Find All first to test and see if it finds what you're looking for and then use Replace in Files to change it every file it finds.

After making the change, start Steam again and it may have to do a quick verify or download an "update" on a few of the games.

If I run it on the games I have installed now, it finds two of them set for "Always keep this game updated".
https://i.imgur.com/rYmfy81.png

After running it again but this time replacing, you can see at the bottom it says it replaced those two occurrences.
https://i.imgur.com/4VU52F2.png

Of course, do all of this at your own risk. I'm not sure what happens if you screw it up and damage the .acf files. But as I said, this is what I did. If you notice in my first screenshot, there are 1656 acf files is searched. 1656 games installed. I wasn't about to do them all manually. I needed to find a way to change them in bulk. Any new additions, afterwards, are easier to set to High Priority as they get added.

edit: had 0 and 1 backwards. fixed

Nice guide. This might be useful for windows users looking for the same thing.
Im on Linux and i think something similar to this should probably work the same.

Thanks again :104:

Actually made this a one liner to run from the steamapps folder of each library folder you may have on Linux systems.

sed -i 's/"AutoUpdateBehavior"\t\t"0"/"AutoUpdateBehavior"\t\t"2"/g' *.acf

[AK]

I know this is over 2y old... but since rawWwRrr mentioned this topic on another topic recently and primarily because ./nlopreste2.sh great, but easily misunderstood, answer there are a few things I want to complement on previous answers.

1 - sed works on any nix systems. If you are running a BSD like system (eg MacOS) you might need to install gsed (as in GNU sed, the same one used on Linux, google for brew install gsed)
2 - if you are on windows you can still use the sed one liner either with WSL ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install ) or if you are truly old school Cygwin.
3 - if you have multiple steam libraries (in multiple disks) you will need to the command on each of them
The next two are obvious, but some people need the obvious explained:
4 - if you have thousands of games installed and use this script you will have another problem, on top of the having thousands of games installed (it is commonly known as a problem between the keyboard and the chair).
5 - if you install any new games you need to set the priority again either on steam or rerunning the one liner (or have it on a schedule to run periodically)

[eram]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από AK:

I know this is over 2y old... but since rawWwRrr mentioned this topic on another topic recently and primarily because ./nlopreste2.sh great, but easily misunderstood, answer there are a few things I want to complement on previous answers.

1 - sed works on any nix systems. If you are running a BSD like system (eg MacOS) you might need to install gsed (as in GNU sed, the same one used on Linux, google for brew install gsed)
2 - if you are on windows you can still use the sed one liner either with WSL ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install ) or if you are truly old school Cygwin.
3 - if you have multiple steam libraries (in multiple disks) you will need to the command on each of them
The next two are obvious, but some people need the obvious explained:
4 - if you have thousands of games installed and use this script you will have another problem, on top of the having thousands of games installed (it is commonly known as a problem between the keyboard and the chair).
5 - if you install any new games you need to set the priority again either on steam or rerunning the one liner (or have it on a schedule to run periodically)

Why did you wait 3 years to reply?

[AK]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από eram:

Why did you wait 3 years to reply?

I'm not admitting I don't know how to count time. For all intents and purposes the reply message was sitting on my browser window for one year....

[Katie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.