Scheduled and manually-started downloads, in the presence of an auto-update window, could do with some improvement. My 'net connection is explicitly metered but has an overnight period which is, for my purposes, effectively free; as such, I make use of the auto-update window; while it's certainly useful, the Steam client's behaviour around it has long been sometimes less than useful.
As such, I have some suggestions for improvement.
(Currently running build 1630453407.)
Automatic pausing of manually-started downloads.
At present, I have to restart the Steam client in order to get this to happen. On start-up, it will automatically resume downloading – no longer a manually-started download, and Steam behaves as I want.
Otherwise, I find it necessary to schedule an at job to send a hangup signal to Steam, (Usually, I'll set this for a few minutes late so that I can see if it overran.)
(Ideally, this would be a global option with per-download overrides. I would usually want to use automatic pausing.)
Automatic resumption of paused downloads.
Currently, I need to be around (and to remember) at the time to unpause it.
(Ideally, this would be a global option with per-download overrides. Mostly, I'd let things be resumed.)
Scheduling a download without immediately starting it.
Would be nice to have. At present, if I want to do this, I have to start it, pause it then… restart Steam.
I see that scheduling without immediately starting to download is now partially implemented: downloading is still started immediately regardless of the auto-update window if there is no current ’active’ download.
Scheduled and manually-started downloads, in the presence of an auto-update window, could do with some improvement. My 'net connection is explicitly metered but has an overnight period which is, for my purposes, effectively free; as such, I make use of the auto-update window; while it's certainly useful, the Steam client's behaviour around it has long been sometimes less than useful.
As such, I have some suggestions for improvement.
(Currently running build 1630453407.)
Automatic pausing of manually-started downloads.
At present, I have to restart the Steam client in order to get this to happen. On start-up, it will automatically resume downloading – no longer a manually-started download, and Steam behaves as I want.
Otherwise, I find it necessary to schedule an
atjob to send a hangup signal to Steam, (Usually, I'll set this for a few minutes late so that I can see if it overran.)(Ideally, this would be a global option with per-download overrides. I would usually want to use automatic pausing.)
Automatic resumption of paused downloads.
Currently, I need to be around (and to remember) at the time to unpause it.
(Ideally, this would be a global option with per-download overrides. Mostly, I'd let things be resumed.)
Scheduling a download without immediately starting it.
Would be nice to have. At present, if I want to do this, I have to start it, pause it then… restart Steam.