• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    Don’t forget the changelog that reads something like:

    • Fixed a number of bugs

    Which, judging from the update size, makes you think the bugs are misnamed HD textures.

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    I recently moved to a place with fiber and paid out the ass for gigabit. I just got a new game on Steam that was 130GB, and it downloaded in about 30-35 minutes. Insanity.

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      paid out the ass for gigabit

      That’s an odd payment method tbh. Fiber isn’t available in my area yet so that may be the reason for the difference, but my isp just subtracts money from my bank account! There’s little to no ass involvement at all!

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      Same! I pay nearly double what I was paying for 100mbps but it’s worth it. As soon as the service was enabled in my building I signed up straight away. In the same place 3 years ago I was only getting 14mbps as my only option!

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      Yeah fiber so so good, I pay like $22 each month for 500 mbps. It’s a bit expensive so I don’t dare go for full gig

      I once had a full gig fiber connection for free in my student apartment, it was glorious. Before that I had like 50 mbps so it’s hard to go back to that after the full gig

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          It’s cheap? Well call me ignorant or uninformed then.

          But no it’s just the internet plan with a discount of $11 per month because my apartment complex has some deal with the internet provider.

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            Lol. My apartment has a “deal” with our internet provider. A combo wifi/switch/modem is provided with the apartment and I have to pay an extra $15 a month.

            What a deal!

            Grand total is only $165US a month for unlimited 1GB down and something terrible up

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            Well I guess it depends on your Country/State, the cheapest fiber in my area is $50 for 500mbps

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    When you’re already losing interest in gaming, there’s nothing worse than having to sit through long updates because you haven’t turned on your machine for a while.

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      unless this changed in the last 2 years, steam detects if a game has an “update pending” so regardless if you go offline, if it detected there was an update it prevents the game from launching. I tried to get around my parents crap download with that trick and it failed.

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        Which is stupid! I want to play.

        Well my Internet connection makes it a 3 Minute wait for 40 gigs.

        But steam should stop the Update if I want to play

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          A workaround you can do is, before launching steam disconnect from the internet, then launch steam, when it launches it will say no connection and give an option to launch in offline mode, once offline mode is launched you can turn your internet back on. Just keep in mind steam also has to refresh your games every once and awhile as well so you have to go online at /some/ point or it won’t let you play the game offline anymore. Steam is super annoying in that matter.

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            edit: I just attempted this again on my laptop, they have slightly fixed the issue. If an update is queued when you’re online you can remove it from the queue and then go offline and you can play it again. However if you are online you still need to update in order to play the game. This is much better than what it used to be, which was if it detected that you need an update even if you canceled the update and went offline it would say update required.

            old post: If you could point me to these settings that you indicate it would be much appreciated,

            Please be aware that if the setting your indicating is the allow background updates or the prevent auto updates. While that will make it so the game will not update automatically it will still register the game as requiring update which means if you go offline it won’t let you play the game until the update has been done.

            I’m going to go test it again because it’s been a while since I’ve tried update in a few minutes

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              it will still register the game as requiring update which means if you go offline it won’t let you play the game until the update has been done.

              Didn’t know that. Yup, that’s bad.

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    That’s why I like old offline games like Skyrim, the only updates I get are mods and when I want. Or I can just turn updates off.

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      old offline games like Skyrim

      Oof! You’re technically right since it’s from 2011 and the “forced online single player games” scourge is endemic by now, but that made me feel ancient 😬😂

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    Goddamn MS Flight Sim is on Steam, but doesn’t update with Steam and forces you to choke down a 40GB update after you launch the game.

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      OMG YES! That shit was like a sleezy bait-and-switch, hiding that chungus download behind the initial installer.

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      This was my first thought, too. I loathe that STUPID MUSIC by now. I can hear it as I type this. “Duuuuuun duuuuuuuun dooooooo…” Over and over and over and over.

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    Disable automatic downloads if it isn’t a multiplayer game, and if it is get a singleplayer plan b game (make sure to allow downloads in the background if on steam that way the other game updates while you play)

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      Fibre is so good that you can still have internet from it after you cancel. It’s not much, it’s really really low drops of it, but it’s still there.