Creston wrote on Dec 31, 2011, 17:12:
Gocows wrote on Dec 31, 2011, 16:17:
Cutter wrote on Dec 31, 2011, 15:59:
Is there a way to keep Steam from pausing a DL when firing up another Steam game?
It only does that on actual start up of something. Tabbing out, restarting and tabbing back in usually solves it.
Edit: I are slow.
Yep. And it's still super-annoying you have to do that, because not all games actually handle alt-tabbing all that well. It's a bug that's been in Steam for fucking years, but I guess nobody at Valve is "interested" in fucking fixing it.
Creston
I don't like the wonkiness of it all but I do appreciate it pausing on start up. I wouldn't want my online FPS lagging and spiking because I had an automatic update going on in the background that I didn't specifically start myself.