Games never update automatically.

[Sidartha]

Games always say "update queued" and never update unless I manually do it which is annoying because I only see this when I sit down to play and I would rather they update before that. I have tried various download settings like enabling auto-update scheduling and disabling it and clearing the download cache but nothing works. This has been like this for YEARS and I can never get it working or find any info about it that helps.

Has anyone else had this problem and/or does anyone have a solution for this?

[Sidartha]

Nobody has any info on this? =/

[Ben Lubar]

You can set the game to "High Priority - always update this game before others" if you want it to download updates as soon as they become available (you can even do this for every game you have installed if you want).

By default, Steam delays updates to games you haven't played recently so it can spread out the downloads from the content servers. That way, if a game releases a gigabyte update to ten thousand players, Steam doesn't have to send ten terabytes of data at the same time.

[rawWwRrr]

It's scheduling the update based on how often you've played the game. If it's a recently played game, the client will assume you'll want those updates immediately. Other games that you haven't played in a bit will be scheduled out assuming you're not in a hurry to play the game.


The scheduling came about back in 2019/2020 when lockdowns were in place because of covid to help ease network congestion.

It was also a suggestion to add a third option to the update settings between right now and only until you launch the game. So this has provided a happy compromise.

To bypass the scheduling, you'll have to set each game's updates to High Priority. That way to will automatically download and install the update as soon as it is available.

[Sidartha]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

It's scheduling the update based on how often you've played the game. If it's a recently played game, the client will assume you'll want those updates immediately. Other games that you haven't played in a bit will be scheduled out assuming you're not in a hurry to play the game.


The scheduling came about back in 2019/2020 when lockdowns were in place because of covid to help ease network congestion.

It was also a suggestion to add a third option to the update settings between right now and only until you launch the game. So this has provided a happy compromise.

To bypass the scheduling, you'll have to set each game's updates to High Priority. That way to will automatically download and install the update as soon as it is available.

OK but I don't think it's ever updating any game. If I leave it alone the number of games that are showing "update queued" just gets bigger and bigger. Eventually, I have to go through and manually say "update" to every game which is very annoying because when I sit down to Steam it's usually to play a game not stare at it while I update 10 games sequentially.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Sidartha:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

It's scheduling the update based on how often you've played the game. If it's a recently played game, the client will assume you'll want those updates immediately. Other games that you haven't played in a bit will be scheduled out assuming you're not in a hurry to play the game.


The scheduling came about back in 2019/2020 when lockdowns were in place because of covid to help ease network congestion.

It was also a suggestion to add a third option to the update settings between right now and only until you launch the game. So this has provided a happy compromise.

To bypass the scheduling, you'll have to set each game's updates to High Priority. That way to will automatically download and install the update as soon as it is available.

OK but I don't think it's ever updating any game. If I leave it alone the number of games that are showing "update queued" just gets bigger and bigger. Eventually, I have to go through and manually say "update" to every game which is very annoying because when I sit down to Steam it's usually to play a game not stare at it while I update 10 games sequentially.

Cool. Change the update settings on each game to High Priority

[Sidartha]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Sidartha:

OK but I don't think it's ever updating any game. If I leave it alone the number of games that are showing "update queued" just gets bigger and bigger. Eventually, I have to go through and manually say "update" to every game which is very annoying because when I sit down to Steam it's usually to play a game not stare at it while I update 10 games sequentially.

Cool. Change the update settings on each game to High Priority

No. Not really that cool. Having to set every game to high priority is pretty idiotic when it was already set to the option of "always keep this game updated". What is even the point of that option if it doesn't do anything?

Regardless, thanks for the info. At least you gave me an option.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Sidartha:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Cool. Change the update settings on each game to High Priority

No. Not really that cool. Having to set every game to high priority is pretty idiotic when it was already set to the option of "always keep this game updated". What is even the point of that option if it doesn't do anything?

Regardless, thanks for the info. At least you gave me an option.

Cool.

The default option does just that. However, it also includes the aforementioned scheduling process. It still always keeps the game updated. It's just not happening as fast as you want it to.

[Sidartha]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Sidartha:

No. Not really that cool. Having to set every game to high priority is pretty idiotic when it was already set to the option of "always keep this game updated". What is even the point of that option if it doesn't do anything?

Regardless, thanks for the info. At least you gave me an option.

Cool.

The default option does just that. However, it also includes the aforementioned scheduling process. It still always keeps the game updated. It's just not happening as fast as you want it to.

I guess you didn't read how I said it's not happening slowly. It's not happening at all. They just pile up more and more over time so....yeah. Cool.

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by Sidartha:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Cool.

The default option does just that. However, it also includes the aforementioned scheduling process. It still always keeps the game updated. It's just not happening as fast as you want it to.

I guess you didn't read how I said it's not happening slowly. It's not happening at all. They just pile up more and more over time so....yeah. Cool.

Are they not showing with a scheduled time in Manage Downloads? All mine do, usually at an early hour in the morning several days ahead.

[Sidartha]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

Originally posted by Sidartha:

I guess you didn't read how I said it's not happening slowly. It's not happening at all. They just pile up more and more over time so....yeah. Cool.

Are they not showing with a scheduled time in Manage Downloads? All mine do, usually at an early hour in the morning several days ahead.

Yeah I messed around with that. Doesn't seem to do anything. I even set the schedule time to the entire day (like 4am to 2am or something so it could literally update at almost anytime).

[Dodgy]

same boat. they never ever updates, i set them to update during 2am to 8am where i must be sleeping. and everyday i came back home there are games queued up waiting for me to click update, and i have super bad internet (20/5 speed, yes ADSL speed). good thing is i no longer plays anything nowadays anyway...sigh

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Dodgy:

same boat. they never ever updates, i set them to update during 2am to 8am where i must be sleeping. and everyday i came back home there are games queued up waiting for me to click update, and i have super bad internet (20/5 speed, yes ADSL speed). good thing is i no longer plays anything nowadays anyway...sigh

No problem here steam update game at 01:00 ( this earlig morning )

[Steve]

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