Steam game updates will change to help preserve bandwidth during the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis.
“For games that haven’t been played recently, Steam has already been scheduling updates for the next off-peak local time period,” a new blog post reads. “Beginning this week, we are now spreading these updates out over several more days. Only games played within the last 3 days will be updated immediately.
“As always, the game will begin updating immediately if you request to play it, and you can always initiate an update (or pause it indefinitely) through the Download Manager. We’re also looking into additional solutions to help on our side.”
Valve also advises that players manage their own bandwidth by scheduling auto-update windows and to choose to disable auto-updates on specific games.
At the time of publishing, Steam Database says that 18,850,717 Steam users are online, with 5,054,786 in a game.
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