PSA: How to prevent a Steam update

[blackkat9]

How do I make sure Steam is off line?

[scipher99]

Go into steam folder and delete the steam manifest for the game and steam will no longer see it as installed and just launch from SKSE. This will keep it from ever updating if that is what your asking.

Mine looked like this: appmanifest_489830.acf

I just cut and pasted it to different location outside of steam folder was all.

[KainThePheonix]

OR, you could easily just have saved the entire folder beforehand and all you need to do is keep both the SkyrimSE.exe and SkyrimSELauncher.exe and replace those files. If it has been updated already you might be screwed but you can roll back an update by simply saving the right files and replacing them should you have an update that has already updated. It's the old way to roll back an update and still works as far as I know.

[SylvainGautier77]

Thanks for the responses guys, but my game was screwed, i had to go back to the previous version of the game. Steam is being kept offline, and im only launching it from my "Downpatched Skyrim" folder outside of Steam. Steam still needs to be "open" before it will launch because i purchased the game through there, but as long as its kept offline, i should be fine right?

[BobboTabor]

Thanks for the responses guys, but my game was screwed, i had to go back to the previous version of the game. Steam is being kept offline, and im only launching it from my "Downpatched Skyrim" folder outside of Steam. Steam still needs to be "open" before it will launch because i purchased the game through there, but as long as its kept offline, i should be fine right?

Yes, but keep a backup. Steam tries to trick you into turning it on.

[Dashyburn]

Thanks a ton Rooker75, AE can go to the abyss in a handbasket, I will escort it there.