If you want to continue playing a game (especially online games) onSteam’s client application, you have to update it to its latest version.

Valve designed the Steam client application to update all your games automatically. So you don’t really have to worry about updating your games.

That being said,you may still control the automatic update from the settings. You canenableordisableauto-updates or evenset auto-updates to higher priority.

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Updating Games With Launchers

There are some games on Steam that you cannot update from the client application.

These games instead have theirseparate launcher application. You’ll have to run the game normally from Steam and then perform the update from the launcher.

Scheduling Game Updates

Game updates are random, and they will start anytime you launch Steam. Thiscan be problematicif you’re connected to a network withlimited bandwidth.

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you may create an update schedule on Steam to ensure thatgame updateswill only occur during a set time period.

To do so, follow the steps,

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