How to verify updates on steam?

[bcatrek]

Hi! I'd have two questions:
(1) How do I verify steam game versions? (just the version number would be fine)
(2) I'd like to have a download history of my games.. is this saved somewhere?
Like game X was updated with version Y on day or time Z? Like a logbook of sorts?

I'm on a shady internet connection and sometimes I'm playing offline, and even though I have automatic downloads turned on, I'm not sure whether updates have actually downloaded or not. Since these contain, sometimes, smaller patches and/or bug fixes it might not be obvious through gameplay, and I hate guessing! :-)

Thanks!

[Bumbefly (we/All)]

Library -> rightclick {game} -> (pop-up menu) Properties -> (pop-up window) tab "Local Files" -> (button) Verify Integrity of Game Cache Files.
This will repair/replenish dmgd/missing files from the selected game. Steam will, if nothing interferes, auto-update games to their latest ed. but when something did interfere this might help updating.

As far as i know there's no update history visible rom within the Steam Client. Game version numbers usually are shown somewhere in the start screen of a selected game.

[Empyrean]

You can right click a game, go to 'Properties' -> 'Local Files' tab and from there, you can verify your game. There's an option called 'Verify integrity of game files'. If a game has an update, once your steam goes online it should detect that, game in your library list will show 'Update paused' I believe, until you download those specifically. The vast majority of steam games will not launch offline or online once there's an update to be downloaded, you will need to get it first. That should answer your first question, unless you're talking about what version the game itself is, for example v1.9 or v0.1257, etc.

If you're wondering about the latter, some games have their version numbers displayed in the main menu or the options menu. For steam itself, I'm not sure if it does tell you specifically what game version you have, but you can right click the game(again), go to 'Properties' -> 'Updates' tab; once you're there, you can find a link underneath the 'Automatic Updates' "drop down" selection box, usually represented as 'View [game name here] update history'. Perhaps you can cross reference this with the game in question's latest update. There is a current build ID shown in 'Properties' -> 'Local Files' but I cannot guarantee this is always the game version. Unfortunately not all game developers post their patches/update news on steam though. This also answers #2 if they do post patch notes/news.

In terms of a client history though, no, there is none. You could browse the steam folders and find the 'downloading' and respective cache folders, but those are current, not past updates.

[Empyrean]

Looks like Bumbefly did post while I was typing and walked away for a moment, there's not much more to say about this, but you can ask in the appropriate section : http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/ .

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[bcatrek]

Ok thanks guys! Will follow your advice and check! :-)