this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
959 points (98.7% liked)
Memes
51461 readers
642 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
On steam if you go into offline mode, then restart the client you can start a game without updating.
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.
You can usually go launch with the games executable, even if it's already started updating!