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Skulldoor
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Hello there everyone, I've got a slight problem with steam that I'm sure SOMEBODY would be able to assist me with.
I'm connected on dial-up (yes, I know, dial-up is ancient and outdated but when you live out in the boondocks you don't GET anything better) and steam is giving me a fit (big surprise). I'm trying to run Garry's Mod which usually runs just fine but when I try to connect to a server I get the crap lagged out of me and it doesn't ever get any better. When I alt-tabbed out of the game to find out what was going on I see that steam was updating something or other and was eating all of my bandwidth.
After a good few minutes fighting with settings I've come to realize that theres no way (at least as far as I can tell) to tell steam to stop downloading crap in the background while I play my games. If anyone has any idea how to curtail steams abhorrent overuse of my already strained bandwidth, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks if anyone can help!
Skulldoor
Edit: As for what I've tried, I tried telling it to pause any updates that were running (There weren't any in any of the tabs) and I've told it to stop updating games automatically. I've also made sure that none of the websites were loading. Yet in the corner (and in the bandwidth monitor) it said that things were being downloaded (yes, things, it wasn't specific) and that all of my bandwidth was still being used.
I'm connected on dial-up (yes, I know, dial-up is ancient and outdated but when you live out in the boondocks you don't GET anything better) and steam is giving me a fit (big surprise). I'm trying to run Garry's Mod which usually runs just fine but when I try to connect to a server I get the crap lagged out of me and it doesn't ever get any better. When I alt-tabbed out of the game to find out what was going on I see that steam was updating something or other and was eating all of my bandwidth.
After a good few minutes fighting with settings I've come to realize that theres no way (at least as far as I can tell) to tell steam to stop downloading crap in the background while I play my games. If anyone has any idea how to curtail steams abhorrent overuse of my already strained bandwidth, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks if anyone can help!
Skulldoor
Edit: As for what I've tried, I tried telling it to pause any updates that were running (There weren't any in any of the tabs) and I've told it to stop updating games automatically. I've also made sure that none of the websites were loading. Yet in the corner (and in the bandwidth monitor) it said that things were being downloaded (yes, things, it wasn't specific) and that all of my bandwidth was still being used.
