Kognos 11 月 8 日 上午 11:26
We need a way to force an update-check on a game please
There are a lot of games in which Steam acts as a broker to a 3rd party agent for a MMO or online service and I get the complexities of updates in that area, but I am really annoyed that it is the year 2025 and the best way we have to update a product within Steam immediately is to "turn steam off and on again".

I can't tell you how many times I launch a game and it says the game is out of date, and there is literally no way to simply check for an update.

Additionally, it would be GREATLY helpful if there was a way that we could flag for an update-check on a game as it launches. There is already an option to delay updates until launch, but there really needs to be a way to check for updates as well.

Make this make sense.
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WoJo © 11 月 8 日 上午 11:43 
I never once had this issue. Quite the opposite, actually, steam stupidly FORCES game updates when you try to launch them, unless you're offline.
Kognos 11 月 8 日 上午 11:55 
引用自 WoJo ©
I never once had this issue. Quite the opposite, actually, steam stupidly FORCES game updates when you try to launch them, unless you're offline.

I agree this may not exist for everyone, but it won't hurt to also have this option for situations that don't affect you personally. I'm online all the time and do get updates but it appears the cycle is really low. Go to play a new game and it's just not up to date, which I never get alerts until in the game.

While you don't experience this, it wouldn't hurt to also have the option to force a check, as there is no current way to do this.
AmsterdamHeavy 11 月 8 日 下午 12:00 
Validating the game files will accomplish this. I also have never had this happen.
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Black Blade 11 月 8 日 下午 12:06 
Will say I also never seen any game that told me it needed an update only after started it, that Steam did not fource it to update first
I really do wonder why you are having this issue, and how common it may be
Hikari Light 11 月 8 日 下午 12:59 
It depends on your update settings.
You can set it to update on the next time you launch the game, update as soon as the update is available (you can set a game as High Priority and it will update before all others or will pause a current update to update), or to update when you schedule it.

You will always have to update before you can play, but you do have some control on when it updates.
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Kognos 11 月 8 日 下午 1:26 
引用自 AmsterdamHeavy
Validating the game files will accomplish this. I also have never had this happen.

Validating the game files takes arguably far longer than simply restarting Steam, while it is an answer, it wouldn't be as simple as the suggested option to Valve -- just provide an option to check for updates.
Kognos 11 月 8 日 下午 1:28 
引用自 Hikari Light
It depends on your update settings.
You can set it to update on the next time you launch the game, update as soon as the update is available (you can set a game as High Priority and it will update before all others or will pause a current update to update), or to update when you schedule it.

You will always have to update before you can play, but you do have some control on when it updates.

Those options are solely to update games where an update is already detected, just not applied. You cannot choose when Steam searches for an update.

In other words, when you go into "manage downloads" you may see games that have pending updates. The option for updating the game "after you launch the game" applies THAT update.
IDidn'tK 11 月 8 日 下午 6:31 
引用自 Kognos
Make this make sense.

sounds like a drive issue.
Ben Lubar 11 月 8 日 下午 11:24 
引用自 Kognos
引用自 AmsterdamHeavy
Validating the game files will accomplish this. I also have never had this happen.

Validating the game files takes arguably far longer than simply restarting Steam, while it is an answer, it wouldn't be as simple as the suggested option to Valve -- just provide an option to check for updates.

go to:

steam://nav/console

enter the following text:

app_info_update 1
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