Steam Update

by Maarten Goldstein, Jan 07, 2005 4:26am PST

Related Topics – Half-Life, half-life, Steam

A new update for Steam has been released, updating both the application itself, the Source engine in general and the Half-Life 1 Dedicated Server. As always you have to restart Steam to get the update.

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is it just me that feels that steam should be able to look for updates say once a day at random to find updates then apply them? having to restart it whenever i see an article here (thanks) that steam has updated, it's a big PITA.

Jan 07, 2005 5:34am PST

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is it just me that feels that steam should be able to look for updates say once a day at random to find u... : mrjackson2k
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  You leave steam running all the time? That's your folly right there, imo. I don't need another app sit... : famine101
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    yes i leave it running, not like it's going to eat up all my ram or anything, just like i leave almost ev... : mrjackson2k
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      You're right that it is a little strange that it only looks for updates on start up. I mean you'd only ha... : SpiderMonkey
      
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      once an hour would be a little excesive, but once a day i think would be fine : mrjackson2k
      
      it wouldn't be that excessive. it wouldn't require much data transfer at all : Turd Ferguson
    - ironically, with this steam update, steam loads up pretty fast for me now. (maybe it isn't irony, who car... : carnivore
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  i agree it's stupid to have to restart the app for an update to take place. why make an app that handles ... : camp3r
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    Because Windows doesn't let you update it if it's running? : menkey
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      other programs will update while running. they may have to do an auto restart to replace some files. you ... : camp3r
      
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      That's updating a file with all the virus definitions in it though, not the actual .exe : menkey
      
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      Plenty of programs do exactly this. All-Seeing Eye for example. Downloads the exe, closes, overwrites the... : zyklonbee
      
      Ok, point taken. : menkey
      
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      all it has to do is check for updates - it can then give the option to actually update. : captfarrell
      
      Like Windows. : SmSmith

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