Auto update not working

[Manimaul]

I've set mostly all my games to auto update or high priority and they still don't auto update what's the deal?

[Manimaul]

yes there are like 5 games that I have to tell to update eventhough atuo updates are enabled

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

They get queued for later to reduce the server stress in certain regions.

Just manually stert them.

[Manimaul]

yeah I've been having to do that for a long time now just seems frustrating that a 35mb update won't auto update

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It was changed to relieve server stress when rolling out game updates. So it won't update everyone at the same exact time.

[Manimaul]

doesn't make sense that a 35mb update would stress a server maybe if its 1gb or higher I could see it but even single player games do it too

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Now times that by all the users who have the game installed and are online with their Steam account.

[Manimaul]

I can't imagine there are a terribly large amount of players playing idle champions that game is only 1gb install and the updates are under 200 mb doens't make sense

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Ninja:

I can't imagine there are a terribly large amount of players playing idle champions that game is only 1gb install and the updates are under 200 mb doens't make sense

5,870 In-Game right now.

Not including users just online but not in game.

[Manimaul]

it doesn't make sense though why even have an auto update function if I have to engage the update?

[Manimaul]

everytime

[Manimaul]

oh nevermind there are time stamps on the time that it is scheduled to update you didn't mention anything about that sadly, thanks for trying to explain to me

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Ninja:

it doesn't make sense though why even have an auto update function if I have to engage the update?

A game will auto update unless the developer/publisher specifically schedules an update. You can then manually enforce the update early or wait until the schedule time and then it will automatically update.

[Manimaul]

I figured it out on my own

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Ninja:

doesn't make sense that a 35mb update would stress a server maybe if its 1gb or higher I could see it but even single player games do it too

Not just one 35MB (not mb, by the way) will, no.

But 50 thousand 35 MB updates all at about the same time might. You might not be the only one that has that same game needing an update at that very time. Remember, people all over the world use Steam, as there are millions of users of Steam.

[Manimaul]

only 5,600 people have idle champions on steam your logic is off