So I fired up Steam today. Don't think anything is really wrong, but 44 items to download/update? Usually 2-3, maybe 10 or so if its been a long time off Steam. Most finished immediately as it shows 0 bytes/0 bytes for the download. Anyone else see anything similar? ???
I've been seeing this for several months. It comes and goes, including last week (for me).
The story I've heard sounded faintly plausible, but I don't recall the details. It's an issue that Steam knows about and is trying to work out, a neutral code problem with updating. There isn't any real update, but the games are triggering an automatic update check or something like that.
Quote from: steve58 on February 07, 2019, 12:43:09 PM
So I fired up Steam today. Don't think anything is really wrong, but 44 items to download/update? Usually 2-3, maybe 10 or so if its been a long time off Steam. Most finished immediately as it shows 0 bytes/0 bytes for the download. Anyone else see anything similar? ???
Last week around 120 games 'needed' an update ...
For a few months my games would not update on their own unless I 'woke' Steam up by uploading pics or downloading mods or similar. Then the updates would begin. Last week all of a sudden I had 45+ titles that needed updating at once. Since then updates have been happening normally.
It is rather common. I experience this fairly often.
I also experienced this last week for the very first time in all my years as a Steam member. I freaked at first, got annoyed quickly thereafter, then before I could get violent all 60 of my items were downloaded and completed.
I was scared but not after reading that I'm not the only one to experience this.
Happens to me periodically
Read on STEAM that it's STEAM changing some of its file systems. Nothing to be concerned about.
What sucks for me is that for some reason Steam is now scheduling my updates for the next day. I have to manually click on each one to update now.
Quote from: bbmike on February 07, 2019, 06:26:05 PM
What sucks for me is that for some reason Steam is now scheduling my updates for the next day. I have to manually click on each one to update now.
I've been seeing that now for at least the past 6 months. If you leave those updates alone they will automatically execute the next day.
That was also happening to me.
Quote from: W8taminute on February 07, 2019, 06:37:55 PM
Quote from: bbmike on February 07, 2019, 06:26:05 PM
What sucks for me is that for some reason Steam is now scheduling my updates for the next day. I have to manually click on each one to update now.
I've been seeing that now for at least the past 6 months. If you leave those updates alone they will automatically execute the next day.
I'd say for the past 18 months at least! -- but I understand the idea of trying to balance their output access.
Quote from: Pete Dero on February 07, 2019, 01:07:52 PM
Last week around 120 games 'needed' an update ...
I'm glad I only have a few games installed. Why don't you clean it up? Surely you don't play all of them.
I see this all the time now (once a month or so). Like steam is regularly streamlining their hosting servers and files. Thus the update would be little more than a slight change to a text file in most cases.
I also got the scheduled to next day and assume this is something that happens when the servers are busy and you are updating nothing you regularly play.
Yeah. I saw this regularly about six months back, then it went away, then it came back just the other day.
I've adopted a new rule of thumb: If Steam says that I have more than 5 Downloads, I don't worry about any of them. They'll be fast whenever they happen, but they're probably not patches from the game developers and they won't affect my game play.
It's annoying, but at the end of the day the only real problem is that if there is a real update buried in that queue I'll miss it.
Quote from: FarAway Sooner on February 09, 2019, 03:07:21 AM
It's annoying, but at the end of the day the only real problem is that if there is a real update buried in that queue I'll miss it.
If that's the case, it will download when you try to play the game anyway.
Quote from: jomni on February 08, 2019, 05:35:05 PM
Quote from: Pete Dero on February 07, 2019, 01:07:52 PM
Last week around 120 games 'needed' an update ...
Why don't you clean it up? Surely you don't play all of them.
To show me why I don't have to buy a new one ...
Quote from: Pete Dero on February 09, 2019, 04:47:22 AM
Quote from: jomni on February 08, 2019, 05:35:05 PM
Quote from: Pete Dero on February 07, 2019, 01:07:52 PM
Last week around 120 games 'needed' an update ...
Why don't you clean it up? Surely you don't play all of them.
To show me why I don't have to buy a new one ...
Doesn't seem to work.
Quote from: jomni on February 09, 2019, 04:55:25 AM
Quote from: Pete Dero on February 09, 2019, 04:47:22 AM
Quote from: jomni on February 08, 2019, 05:35:05 PM
Quote from: Pete Dero on February 07, 2019, 01:07:52 PM
Last week around 120 games 'needed' an update ...
Why don't you clean it up? Surely you don't play all of them.
To show me why I don't have to buy a new one ...
Doesn't seem to work.
This forum doesn't seem to help :2funny:.
Skynet is readying its minions...
BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY
So today, only 1 update :clap:
Now I have 4000 Lunar tokens. Need to figure out what to spend them on...
Quote from: steve58 on February 09, 2019, 03:47:44 PM
So today, only 1 update :clap:
Now I have 4000 Lunar tokens. Need to figure out what to spend them on...
Not really useful if you ask me.
Quote from: steve58 on February 09, 2019, 03:47:44 PM
So today, only 1 update :clap:
Now I have 4000 Lunar tokens. Need to figure out what to spend them on...
You get 121 tokens for each $ you spend and 15.000 tokens gives you $5.
So you only need to spend around $90 and you save $5 !
The more money you save, the quicker you will go bankrupt :).
Sounds like the Government.
I burned all my steam tokens on steel division 2 pre order