How do I stop Steam from "reaquiring files"?

[Qwesar]

Steam keeps overriding my modifications to game files but I am a modder and I know what I am doing.

[Zekiran]

If you knew what you were doing you'd probably post this in the game's forum hub or on the mod site?

What game?

Are you attempting to run a modded game, say, Fallout or Skyrim, through Steam instead of using F4se or SKse?

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Qwesar:

My issue is with steam reaquiring files. I know offline play is an temporary solution but I am looking for long term solution. I can normally google these kind of things but I could only find posts on how to get Steam to verify game files, which auto-verifying is actually what I want to turn off.

There's no such thing as "auto verifying". Steam only does it if you ask it to.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

The only time I have seen that is when verifying game files and Steam finds some missing and will reaquire.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Qwesar:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

There's no such thing as "auto verifying". Steam only does it if you ask it to.

how do you own 5k+ plus games and don't understand how Steam works

I know more about Steam and how it works than you ever will. Hence why you're the one asking questions and I'm the one answering them. I'll say it again, Steam has no auto-verification system, it only verifies the game cache if you ask it to.

[Cathulhu]

There are only two cases where such a thing would happen, either a manual verification, or an update affecting a modded file failing the hash check.
As you are unwilling to even name the game and tend to be uncooperative, it's unlikely you will find an answer.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Qwesar:

I am not talking about the manual feature to verify game cache. I never mentioned that once.

Right, but you also don't mention the game which it's happening with, or whether it's the steam client, whether you're on the steam beta client, if you've had an OS update recently, whether you're using that mod launcher I asked about in my comment, or what.

You are not a coder. You are clearly not a long-time steam user, if you can't bother to answer simple troubleshooting questions like these. We're trying to help you, you don't want help then you shouldn't have bothered posting in ... HELP and TIPS...

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Qwesar:

ug these inconveniences may seem minor but to a modder, they are very frustrating

Also, no, you're no modder. You're a mod user, at best. Again: answer some specific questions as above, and we'll be able to help you.

There is no such thing as 'auto-acquiring', either you've asked the program to do it, or you're mistaking steam doing something entirely different when attempting to launch a modded game.

The only time I know of Steam doing anything to files, is when you try launching a modded game FROM steam, instead of the mod launcher for that game, which is... something a modder would know.

[MancSoulja]

So just to address this again, this issue seems to be with the latest Steam client update. It is updating certain games\mods\workshop content on launch and that's why Steam keeps reaquiring the files from the app manifest.

Steam should fix it soonish, you can try the Beta client to see if it's already fixed there.

[Dragon Protector]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by Qwesar:

My issue is with steam reaquiring files. I know offline play is an temporary solution but I am looking for long term solution. I can normally google these kind of things but I could only find posts on how to get Steam to verify game files, which auto-verifying is actually what I want to turn off.

There's no such thing as "auto verifying". Steam only does it if you ask it to.

tell that to steam deck on system update lol

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by Dragon Protector:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

There's no such thing as "auto verifying". Steam only does it if you ask it to.

tell that to steam deck on system update lol

3 year old necro for nothing.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Dragon Protector:

tell that to steam deck on system update lol

Yeah he should've known better about Steam deck 3 years ago...

Or hear me out, don't necro things that uncalled for.