Steam is including a brand new default choice for sport updates

Valve is testing an choice within the new Steam consumer beta that can pressure video games by default to solely obtain updates if you launch them.

Presently, Steam by default decides what sport updates to obtain primarily based on just a few various things. As defined by Valve:

For video games you latterly performed, Steam will obtain sport updates shortly after they’re launched. For video games that you just haven’t performed shortly, Steam may wait just a few days to bundle a number of updates collectively or select to obtain the replace when you are asleep.

This new default choice to attend to obtain an replace offers gamers extra management; as Valve factors out, it signifies that customers can maintain an updating an enormous sport till they really wish to play it, which might be a reduction for folks with bandwidth caps.

You’ll discover the brand new choice within the beta Steam consumer settings beneath the Downloads part. “You possibly can set the default to: let Steam resolve when to replace the sport (primarily based on elements like if you final performed the sport, bandwidth availability, and so on.) or wait to replace till the sport is launched,” Valve says.

You possibly can nonetheless set per-game obtain settings in a sport’s Properties that override the worldwide setting, however these choices have “cleaned up descriptions,” based on Valve. And with the beta, you may as well handle the per-game overrides within the general Steam consumer Downloads settings.