

- #DOWNLOAD STEAM CLIENT SOFTWARE HOW TO#
- #DOWNLOAD STEAM CLIENT SOFTWARE UPDATE#
- #DOWNLOAD STEAM CLIENT SOFTWARE PATCH#
Two of the settings here can help increase your download speed. The settings we're interested in are under the Downloads + Cloud tab. In the Settings window, there will be many tabs full of all sorts of options and settings that you can play with. This can be accessed by right-clicking the Steam icon in the system tray and selecting Settings from the menu that appears.
#DOWNLOAD STEAM CLIENT SOFTWARE HOW TO#
Here's how to make the wait time a little less painful:
#DOWNLOAD STEAM CLIENT SOFTWARE UPDATE#
If you're one of those 40 million, you know what a pain it can be to wait for a game to update or for a new one to download - it's not the speediest process. In other Steam news, Chinese players unhappy with the inclusion of the Tibetan flag in Life is Strange: True Colors have begun review-bombing the game on Steam.ĭespite sitting on an overall aggregated score of "Very Positive" reviews, Chinese players have recently been hammered the RPG with negative reviews because of an in-game Tibetan flag.Steam defines itself as "the ultimate entertainment platform." Its software, available for PC, Mac, and mobile devices, allows people to "play, connect, create." Its gaming library has more than 2,000 titles and it has approximately 40 million users. You can even see at a glance what kind of content you have installed, as each drive is broken down into individual categories: games, DLC, workshop, and the ever-helpful catch-all, "other".įor the full info on the update - which is available now - head on over to Steam. There have also been changes to tooltips, making them much more informative, plus tweaks to storage management now enable players to mount library folders on read-only drives and lets you see each drive individually. For workshop updates, a page of subscribed items ordered by update date can be accessed by selecting "View Updated Items" from the context menu.
#DOWNLOAD STEAM CLIENT SOFTWARE PATCH#
The patch notes link will only show up on updates, not fresh installs. This will only display for games that have entered patch notes into the new event system.

The download queue is now fully reorderable using drag and drop.This icon only appears if the update is not solely game content. Types consist of: Game Content, Downloadable Content, Workshop Content, and Shader Pre-caching. A new (i) icon next to the game's title will reveal a tooltip displaying the types of content that is included in that update.Any partially completed downloads/updates in queue now will show a faded progress bar and per cent completed next to it to clearly display its current state.Previously the progress bar would only display the downloading content progress but not the disk allocation process which would make an update to appear completed when it was not. When a game/update is actively downloading it will now display the total progression completed for the download or update.Here's the science bit, courtesy of Valve:
