Steam Overriding my Update Settings for Skyrim

[FireFoX -bb]

Steam Issue I found this morning, I have Skyrim SE set to ONLY update when I choose, but for some reason this morning, Steam decides to update it anyway when I logged in, overriding my client settings.

Has anyone else had this problem?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The bug associated with the 0kb updates did update other games for users with that setting.

It started a few weeks ago...

justine_valve

19 hours ago

Most of these updates are just shared redistributable updates and not real game updates. The end result should be that you need to download less content going forward.

You should see only a few real downloads of any size and the remainder should be size 0 updates. This is not communicated well in the client and will be looked at.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/al6h7l/another_giant_pile_of_updates/efb9tev/

They are done in bulk and usually get rolled out after every Tuesday server maintenance cycle.

Game installs/uninstalls also trigger the batch updates.

[Satoru]

Note that there is no option to disable updates

The only option is that they don’t check for them automatically in the background

But everytime you launch the game it checks for updates and deploys them

You can’t disable updates forever

[FireFoX -bb]

@Satoru Yeah I know, but in this case you can keep Skyrim from updating by not launching it from the Client/Launcher. I always use SKSE to launch Skyrim which is bypasses the launcher. This just updated when I simply logged into my launcher. I have not even had a chance to look at my library yet.

@HotSauce Yeah the update I saw was from weeks ago where it was pending and waiting for me to launch the game. It had been like this for some time, but just forced itself to update yesterday just from logging into the launcher. Basically overriding the basic function setting "only update when game launches" like I said above. I should be able to defer these updates as long as I like so long as I don't click "Play" from the launcher.