Timeline for How to prevent steam client from auto-updating itself?
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| Sep 18, 2018 at 8:10 | vote | accept | Siddharth | ||
| Sep 18, 2018 at 8:09 | comment | added | Siddharth | Hibernating is a good workaround (currently on it) as suggested by @0xFF. I have observed that the self-updating frequency has increased since the launch of the new client. It seems Valve has a habit of introducing new things once an application is extremely stable. Regarding file corruption issues, I believe they are less of a culprit than Steam releasing new updates for bug resolutions (frequent in the older client around 2013-15, stabilised around 16-17) I have found another workaround in this thread, bypassing verification of files. | |
| Sep 18, 2018 at 0:14 | comment | added | l3l_aze | I don't have a computer to test, so I shouldn't be trying to make definitive comments, I'm sorry. In my personal experience though it's possible for a client update to be released while using Steam and it will prompt to ask if it can restart itself to install the update. I have heard there's ways to keep it from updating the client, but haven't personally tested ever as I have [not on Steam/not games] programming projects related to the Steam client and always wanted the latest information to work with. I think OP is having a different issue, and will try to address that. | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 20:28 | comment | added | 0xFF | @l3l_aze Sure, the first time it'll do the update, but it won't automatically do them after. The point is with hibernation you can shut down the PC without steam ever "shutting down". From steam's point of view, you paused the download, waited some time then resumed the download. | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 20:26 | comment | added | l3l_aze | The Steam updater checks when it first goes online and periodically after that; hibernation will not keep it from needing to update. | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 19:13 | comment | added | DrZoo | @MageXy hibernation will write data to the disk before shutting down, so it can be reloaded once you turn it back on again. | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 16:23 | history | edited | 0xFF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added explanation of what hibernate does.
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| Sep 17, 2018 at 16:07 | comment | added | 0xFF | @MageXy It saves the running state so steam itself never actually shuts down and so doesn't update. | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 16:03 | comment | added | Mage Xy | Hibernation still powers off the computer, so OP will still have the same issues. How does this bypass the problem? | |
| Sep 17, 2018 at 15:51 | history | answered | 0xFF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |