Download Game While Playing Another Steam

This minimizes the game window in the process.

Download game while playing another steam. I 39 m downloading arma ii from steam but it takes a lot of time so i want to play another game from steam too but i don 39 t know if it will somehow mess up the arma ii download i know it pauses automatically but can something bad happen to arma ii if i continue the download while. To resume downloads while you are playing games do the following. I install my new steam games whenever i m going to be spending a lot of time on my computer in one session.

Steam settings downloads. Just fire up the game you want to play then follow these steps. Till now steam has modelled itself on mankind in that regard downloading one game while playing another while possible was unintuitive.

Press alt tab to get back to the desktop then pull up the steam. If the download is affecting the network performance of the game you can also consider setting a bandwidth limit from the download settings. Moreover you can only access the person s steam library on your computer so you can t access their library on another one.

I ve noticed that if i m installing a game and i try to play another game at the same time steam pauses installing the game. Just like game borrowing you can t play the same game at the same time. You can turn this feature off by navigating to your download settings.

The latest update to the steam client fixes that little. Use alt tab to get back to the desktop of your system. The people who you shared the game with will not be able to play games from your library at the same time either.

Luckily you can force steam to download games while you play. Bring the steam client to the front if it is not already there and select library downloads from the menu at the top. A lot of the time when i spend an extended time on my computer it s while gaming.