Remove self updater.

[CheetosInChocolate]

Me: Wants to play a game un-interupted
Steam: no ♥♥♥ u I ruin game now for auto update like Windows do.
I thought they supported Linux bruh.
How do Windows users live with auto updater, and not strive for something better?

[Stellar Remnant]

If you want to play it uninterrupted, move the game folder elsewhere on your PC and launch it manually.

[Zefar]

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How do Windows users live with auto updater, and not strive for something better?

Because we lived back in the days when we had to manually download the patch from some random side on our slow internet connection in order to get the latest version.

Now it's just automatically downloaded on our super fast connection and it is of no problem. Don't even need to think about it.

[RiO]

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How do Windows users live with auto updater

Because it has the common decency to allow you to schedule updates to take place in 'off-hours' and allows you to postpone updates by up to N amount of days, depending on the type of update (security or feature).

[CheetosInChocolate]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από CheetosInChocolate™℠©®℗:

How do Windows users live with auto updater

Because it has the common decency to allow you to schedule updates to take place in 'off-hours' and allows you to postpone updates by up to N amount of days, depending on the type of update (security or feature).

and if you want to use your PC in those off hours?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The client updater has caused issues, downloading in the background while playing games causing crazy stuttering.

The window would also take focus while browsing around or when you are in the middle of typing, hitting the spacebar selects the restart Steam button and you lose all you were typing.

Yeah... It is annoying.

[FFL2and3rocks]

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and if you want to use your PC in those off hours?

Then they aren't off-hours. Change them.

[MagicMight]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από RiO:

Because it has the common decency to allow you to schedule updates to take place in 'off-hours' and allows you to postpone updates by up to N amount of days, depending on the type of update (security or feature).

and if you want to use your PC in those off hours?

Just set your connection as metered and you indefinitely stall updates if you want to.

[CheetosInChocolate]

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and if you want to use your PC in those off hours?

Then they aren't off-hours. Change them.

You have NEVER needed to use your pc in the middle of the night??

[RiO]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από CheetosInChocolate™℠©®℗:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από RiO:

Because it has the common decency to allow you to schedule updates to take place in 'off-hours' and allows you to postpone updates by up to N amount of days, depending on the type of update (security or feature).

and if you want to use your PC in those off hours?

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από FFL2and3rocks:

Then they aren't off-hours. Change them.

You have NEVER needed to use your pc in the middle of the night??

Even when updates prepare to install in the background, you are no longer forced to finish installation with a restart nowadays. You are allowed a one-time bypass of just shutting the system down.
This was created exactly because of the case you are describing now; where you need access to something on your system at an unfortunate time and are in a rush and can't sit there waiting for updates to complete before shutting down.

Microsoft actually genuinely sought to invest the effort there to get it right and strike a good balance between enforcing security; without too much impact on usability. Their take on it was just 'security first' and then they've been gradually opening things back up with controlled features delivered to mitigate the pain of that approach.

[CheetosInChocolate]

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and if you want to use your PC in those off hours?

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από CheetosInChocolate™℠©®℗:

You have NEVER needed to use your pc in the middle of the night??

Even when updates prepare to install in the background, you are no longer forced to finish installation with a restart nowadays. You are allowed a one-time bypass of just shutting the system down.
This was created exactly because of the case you are describing now; where you need access to something on your system at an unfortunate time and are in a rush and can't sit there waiting for updates to complete before shutting down.

Microsoft actually genuinely sought to invest the effort there to get it right and strike a good balance between enforcing security; without too much impact on usability. Their take on it was just 'security first' and then they've been gradually opening things back up with controlled features delivered to mitigate the pain of that approach.

Doesn't change that Steam still has the problem though.

[RiO]

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Doesn't change that Steam still has the problem though.

Absolutely true. And Valve should have a good; long; and hard look at the features Microsoft has been steadily offering to consumers:

Giving a one-time ability to skip and bypass applying a pending update.
Giving the ability to defer / time-shift the dates on which updates are offered by X days. (Let others be 'guinea pigs'.)
Giving the ability to roll back an update after its been applied; but applying it left a game broken.
etc. etc.

[Castyles]

That could be fixed with a simple option: "Download and install Steam updates when playing a game? YES. NO." and a notification telling you about a ready to install/ignored update on the client's tray or something.