How To Roll Back Game Update On Steam

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How to Downgrade Game Version

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The method and images explained in this guide might no longer work & outdated, please refer to the comments section below for updated steps. Thank you anybody who shared their working methods.

i. Enable Steam Panel

Right click on your Steam desktop shortcut, click properties and add -console after Steam target address.

If done correctly, y'all should meet 'Console' tab after your Steam username on the customer.

Alternatively, you lot can also access Steam panel by pressing Win + R or open up web browser and so type the command:

steam://open/console

2. Go to steamdb.info and search your game

Open your internet browser and become to https://steamdb.info then blazon in your game name at search bar on top right.

iii. Go Game/App ID Number

After typed in the game's title, y'all will run into list of results. Click the one that friction match your game. Usually information technology was categorized every bit 'game' not 'DLC' or 'video'. For this guide, I used HITMAN 2016 as example, AppID 236870.

PLEASE PAY Attention TO APPID NUMBER. It will be very useful on later steps. Thanks.

four. Bank check game's ACF file

After finding the game'southward appID on Steam database, at present you need to go to this location in your computer

(Steam install path)/Steam/steamapps

or in case you install game exterior Steam directory, the files will exist at

(bulldoze letter)/SteamLibrary/steamapps

In this folder you will notice a bunch of appmanifest [appID number] files. At present choice the i with your game appID, and open up it with any text editor like Notepad.

Inside the files, yous will see something like the image below.
The "number" inside brackets are the Depot you need to download from. While the number later on "manifest" tells yous which Manifest currently installed on your hard drive.

five. Become Depot ID number

Subsequently checking game's manifest files on Steam folder, at present time to go dorsum to SteamDB website and notice the correct Depots number.

Click on the Depot number yous want to download.

Each Depots contain parcel of game files called 'Manifest'. Now the next thing you need to do is to download the right Manifest y'all need to downgrade or rollback the game.

6. Get manifest ID number

Click the manifests to see all the game versions with timestamp. Pick the ane you desire to download. For example, because I wanted to rollback my HITMAN back to version released in March 14, 2017, so I look up for that. PLEASE PAY Attending TO MANIFESTID NUMBER ON THE RIGHT Cavalcade. Better yet, copy it to your clipboard.

7. Download the packet

Now that you take AppID, DepotID and ManifestID, go back to Steam console and blazon downwardly

download_depot <gameID> <depotID> <manifestID>

Example: because I wanna downgrade HITMAN to the version released in March 14, 2017. I would type this on the panel:

download_depot 236870 236871 8264336280323447139

See the numbers there 236870 is AppID, 236871 is DepotID and 8264336280323447139 is ManifestID.

8. Mischief managed :^)

If successful, become bank check your Steam download section to brand sure your network is downloading the parcel. The game proper noun won't be visible, but every bit long as your network show any activeness on the data usage, information technology's working.

If you lot successfully downloaded the bundle, it will be on your [path to Steam binder]/Steam/steamapps/content folder. All you need to do now is replacing the game files with your downloaded package.

DONE. Congratulations, you've committed a black magic and successfully modify the existence of time itself.

ix. Forestall Steam from Updating Your Game

Later successfully replaced game files with older ones, you lot might want to prevent Steam from car updating your game.

1. The 1st solution is to open the same ACF files as in step 4, then cheque the "Country Flag" line below the game title. Change whatever the number currently in there to "iv" this means "updated and installed".

DO Notation: Never edit the ACF file while Steam client running. Exit Steam first, otherwise Steam will revert your change to default.

For in-depth method about skipping updates I advise checking THIS HELPFUL GUIDE.

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2. The 2nd solution is to boot Steam directly into offline mode without going online first.

Become to "Config" binder in your Steam folder

(Drive letter)/Steam/config

Then open "loginusers.vdf" with notepad or any text editor. Change "WantsOfflineMode" and "SkipOfflineModeWarning" to "one". See the cherry-red circles below. Y'all might ameliorate modify "RememberPassword" with "one" equally well.

And so save the file & shut text editor. Then correct click the file and set it as Read-simply.
You might demand to restart Steam client in one case after that.

If yous exercise these steps correctly, the adjacent time yous launch Steam you go directly into offline style and this window will pop at commencement.

Choose Start in Offline Mode, Steam should give you no further alert or request password again. And they will surely non update your game.

Note for offline mode: You lot can do this indefinitely, merely exception is Denuvo games, they limit you with 2 weeks offline period (after offline for 2 weeks you can't play Denuvo games without going online outset).