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I have many games on Steam and many more I will buy, but I have a problem and I hope you can point me a solution.
When I download a game, is it possible to launch and play a single player game under Steam and continue downloading others games in the meanwhile?
Steam stops my download as soon as I launch any game, and I am looking for a way to prevent this.
There is no generic setting within Steam that prevents game updates from automatically being downloaded. The only way to prevent auto-updating is to run Steam in offline mode - which will prevent you from playing Steam games online.
It is not possible to prevent Steam client updates from being downloaded while the client is in 'Offline' mode.
There is a per-game setting which allows you to disable updates for individual games, which is accessible by right clicking on a game in your library, and selecting properties and choosing "Do not automatically update this game":
It is worth noting that if you're playing a game on Steam, all Steam downloads are automatically paused unless you select the download option "Allow Downloads During Gameplay" (which is available through the Steam menu > Settings > Downloads category, at the bottom), so you shouldn't experience Steam downloading files while playing Steam games. Note that this setting will not prevent Steam from downloading updates when you're playing a non-Steam game.
Under Steam > Settings > Downloads, there is now an option available that allows you to specify a specific time frame to download updates. If you know you're going to be using mobile data for a specific time frame, you could use this functionality as a workaround to ensure that updates are not downloaded during that specific time frame:
If you have access to another computer at a location with a properly working network, then you can:
This will work if the download speed is a problem in combination with the steam client.
It will not work (or work poorly) if the problem is not the download speed, but some other reason which messes up your network (e.g. lost packets). Which is likely given that other programs such as Chrome also run into problems. In that case the proper solution would be to fix your network, which starts with identifying what goes wrong.
You did not add any OS to your question, but start with this:
ifconfigifconfig (probably with EN0 rather than ETH0)cmd netstat -s
Best Answer
Global option
You can now allow downloads during any gameplay from the downloads settings:
Per game option
You can now tell Steam to continue downloading updates/games while playing games from your games' properties. Note that this setting is not available for non-steam games, which will always use the global setting.