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Digi 5 hours ago
Allow "background downloads" to be configured for all games (3rd-party-updated, non-steam, etc)
I want to have all games pause the download but I want specific games to not, for example Warframe, but I cannot do that because: https://i.imgur.com/61bX9jW.png

It doesn't really make sense that background downloads are locked out just because the game isn't updated by Steam, the whole point of that setting is about other downloads when the game is running, and it can track it running just fine regardless of who's updating it.

And non-steam games don't have that tab at all, but I've not tried if they pause downloads, if they do then they also need it.

Thanks :]
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Ettanin 4 hours ago 
Steam cannot dictate how an application that uses its own patching system behaves. To do that, they would either have to hack said third party application or force the publisher to implement an API.

For contractual reasons, Steam will do neither.
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Digi 3 hours ago 
Originally posted by Ettanin:
Steam cannot dictate how an application that uses its own patching system behaves. To do that, they would either have to hack said third party application or force the publisher to implement an API.

For contractual reasons, Steam will do neither.
You misunderstand, the game's own patching is completely irrelevant.

Here's an example in practice: I start Steam and start downloading COD, while that's happening I start Warframe. Now the COD download is paused.
And in this example COD uses Steam's CDN instead of its own launcher (I dunno if that's true but it's not relevant, I'm not asking for Steam to download Warframe in background, I'm asking Steam to not pause its already supported downloads when I launch a specific game).

And yes I know it can be changed globally, but the setting there says I can change it per-game, and I only want Warframe specifically to not pause Steam's downloads of other games.
PS: the global setting I'm referring to: https://i.imgur.com/8MhpX0t.png
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