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Set All Games to High Priority Updates
By Maleverus
How to quickly set all installed Steam games to high priority updates. No more scheduled downloads, download updates immediately!
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration, Secrets, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
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29 Jul, 2022 @ 10:31am
12 May, 2023 @ 8:40am
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How To
  1. Install Notepad++ [notepad-plus-plus.org]
  2. Quit Steam!
  3. Browse to your steam apps folder inside your Steam install (this must be done for each hard drive you install Steam games too).
  4. Open all appmanifest_******.acf files into Notepad++. Click the first one, scroll down to the last hold shift and click it, then drag them all into Notepad++ window.
  5. Press Ctrl+F for find dialog, then switch to replace tab.
  6. Set Find what to: "AutoUpdateBehavior" "0"
  7. Set Replace with to: "AutoUpdateBehavior" "2"
  8. Please note that for the previous 2 items, Steam's online formatting does not allow for tabs or "tabbed spaces". The keywords copied from this guide will not properly be pasted into notepad++. There are two tabs in between "AutoUpdateBehavior" and "0" same goes for in between "AutoUpdateBehavior" and "2". When properly typed, it will be spaced out between the two sets of quotation marks like in this screenshot.
  9. Click Replace All in All Opened Documents
  10. Click File, Save All.
Why
Because Valve thinks they know better than you how you want to use your bandwidth. Games not played in 3 days have scheduled updates, and with the pandemic to lower bandwidth use they scheduled more things and further out.

They don't make an easy setting because presumably we would all just use it.

I pay for my bandwidth, will use it as I please, and if my ISP has problems they can increase their network capacity like they should.
3 Comments
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AK 21 Feb, 2024 @ 4:27am 
Great guide.
For anyone on Linux, MacOS or Windows with WSL (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install) you can simply do:

[code]
find . -name "appmanifest*.acf" -exec sed -i 's/\t"AutoUpdateBehavior"\t\t"0"/\t"AutoUpdateBehavior"\t\t"2"/g' {} \; | grep AutoUpdateBehavior
[/code]
Maleverus  [author] 12 May, 2023 @ 8:41am 
Thanks IBsenoj. I added your clarification to the guide. Also tried to add you as a collaborator but apparently we have to be friends so sent you a request if you want to be added.
IBsenoj 11 May, 2023 @ 10:00am 
Thanks for the guide! I want to point out that Steam's online formatting does not allow for tabs or "tabbed spaces". The keywords copied from this guide will not properly be pasted into notepad++. There are two tabs in between "AutoUpdateBehavior" and "0" same goes for in between "AutoUpdateBehavior" and "2". When properly typed, it will be spaced out between the two sets of quotation marks. Just in case, I will attach a screenshot even though yours does include the proper spacing.

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