Yeah, it's really unfortunate. You're trying to help other people make the Steam client work for them and there's just troublemakers seeking to throw monkey wrenches in what you do.

Thank you for the work you've done, by the way.

Shameful, absolutely shameful. I've pretty much stopped posting in these topics for the exact same reason.

I quit posting in those threads too because it's obvious the mods are going to side with the trolls every time.

If some aren't the same very trolls in the first place. It's too much of a coincidence that certain mods post within seconds after certain trolls.

I agree. ^^

Tharon, you are offering a great service for all of us, thanks a lot for all your time and effort! Don´t let those b@stards spoil your mood too much, they´re definitely not worth the energy.

These forums seem to have become a protected troll habitat of the worst kind. We won´t change this anymore, it seems. Still i´m glad, i found messages from guys like you, to help me to solve my issues with the client and/or find reasonable workarounds.

Please don´t give up, as official support is of very little support in many cases, your great help and support will be needed over and over again.

We just should give up trying to be heard too much, as there is too much "resistance", trying to tone us down or shut us down completely. We should stay under the radar, try to solve our issues, if some may happen. But it´s maybe saver to do it without criticizing things, which triggers them troll-guards ...

All THEY wanna achieve is to get us banned over and over again, till we get a unlimited ban. We should not offer THEM this "present".

I agree. The silent majority are too scared of the power the vocal minority have taken. The steam community has fallen down the same rabbit hole as Twitter, YouTube comments sections, and real life (in a growing number of countries). The safest bet is to go a little more underground for everyone working to fix Valve's mess.

Go ahead and continue reading those boards, but when you see a cry for help, message them privately instead of in the forum. It sucks that this limits who can be helped, but word gets around. Just tell the people you help "if this works for you, share the information with others, but be careful to do so privately so you won't get banned or suspended".

Personally, I'm still struggling to get the classic UI working again (and even have a new laptop). I'm at the point where I'm willing to have someone send me their working copy to see if it starts running if I don't actually install it. But know that despite this, I've appreciated all of the help and still consider your tools to be essential to a good gaming experience. I pass both the tools and advice on whenever the oppourtunity arises on other platforms.

Thank you for your posts and i'm sorry for being so late in my response. Unfortunately my health issues are worsening (i suffer of depression and axiety disorder) and i need to not think too much of negative stuff.

I agree 100% with everything you have said.
There is a well know posse of individuals who act as a sort of forum vigilantes abusing the system. This has worsened when Valve hired paid moderators who doesn't seem to know how forum and communities works and act without looking at the context.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/2962768084999967276/?ctp=28#c3266806537534972410

I don't know why I bother sometimes.

You should not bother at all.
Anyway, have you turned off the shader pre-caching ? This kind of updates are usually shader download for the games (it's turned on by default).

I did but it doesn't seem to do anything. I also set the download time from 12am to 12am, which also doesn't do anything. The games update every couple of hours regardless.

What I can't seem to understand is why are abandoned games from over a decade updating.