minimal data setting

[Moose Green]

I'm planning on moving into the woods and likely won't have an Internet connection beyond my data plan on my cell phone. It would be nice if there were a setting i could click on that made it so steam ran on the absolute minimum amount of data. Maybe even with different check boxes to further customize what data is being used. When i boot up my steam deck it often looks as though it's transferring hundreds of mb of information for games that are already installed. I can travel an hour to my family members households to use their fiber connection when i need to download huge files. But when I'm running on my data plan i want to be certain it's using the bare minimum. This would be huge for me

[Start_Running]

For the steam client. SMall Mode is your friend. For the Steam Deck, it's already pretty minimal barring updates.

[[KING]mizuki]

thk

[Patchy >:3]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

For the steam client. SMall Mode is your friend. For the Steam Deck, it's already pretty minimal barring updates.

Actually wondering, what exactly small mode does besides changing UI?
Like, it always seemed interesting to me, especially with how I tend to keep things simple :p

[Moose Green]

I would like to be able to use cloud save, but not have it fully update the game when I'm on metered connection. Therefore offline mode won't do what i want. The only 3 options on my steam deck are, wait until i launch the game, let steam decide when to update, And, immediately download updates. Unless there's a setting somewhere i haven't found

[eram]

in steam/settings/library there is a setting called low bandwidth mode and disable community content, use that with small mode.

[Moose Green]

The only thing in settings/library is add to library

[eram]

Originally posted by Moose Green:

The only thing in settings/library is add to library

you dont have any of these settings?
https://imgur.com/nUGHa9N

[Moose Green]

All i have is a place to enter a code to activate games

[Moose Green]

Ok, switch to desktop mode and go into steam that way and I get what your pic shows. But does that low bandwidth mode stop updates? If it does, its exactly what i was looking for. But it doesn't exactly say that's what it does.

There's a difference between bandwidth and data caps

[eram]

Originally posted by Moose Green:

Ok, switch to desktop mode and go into steam that way and I get what your pic shows. But does that low bandwidth mode stop updates? If it does, its exactly what i was looking for. But it doesn't exactly say that's what it does.

it doesnt stop updates no its everything else on steam to reduce your data usage.

as youve seen best you can do with the download part is set to only update at game launch.
in your case id just made sure everything is fully up to date before your move then set to offline mode for as long as you can and use your mobile data to update cloud saves once in a while when you go back online.

Originally posted by Moose Green:

There's a difference between bandwidth and data caps

lower bandwidth reduces the amount of data used whilst steam is running.
it does not make your updates slower its not that bandwidth.

[Moose Green]

I can understand not being able to forgo updates for multi player games, but most of the games i play are single player. So i don't need the version to match anyone else's version, meaning i don't need it fully up to date all the time. I stand by my original suggestion of a low data setting.

[Callahan420]

Make sure shader pre-cache is turned off.
Steam > settings > downloads > Scroll to the bottom