kevkiev Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Common knowledge that selecting "do not auto update this game" in Steam is useless, and I've read here that some peeps create backups of their files so they can "roll back" when a skyrim patch comes out. So, is a backup of the TESV exe file the only thing you need to backup or are there other files too? Also, even if you do that, wouldn't steam auto-overwrite your backup the next time you start the game? Just trying to prepare myself for the inevitable. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmilingAhab Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 (edited) Common knowledge that selecting "do not auto update this game" in Steam is useless, and I've read here that some peeps create backups of their files so they can "roll back" when a skyrim patch comes out. So, is a backup of the TESV exe file the only thing you need to backup or are there other files too? Also, even if you do that, wouldn't steam auto-overwrite your backup the next time you start the game? Just trying to prepare myself for the inevitable. Thanks.The whole skyrim folder. the binary, the dlls and the Data folder are the targets of the "upgrades". Only way to stop them I suppose is to register the game and immediately set Steam to offline mode, because once it starts "updating" Skyrim you can't play until it's finished. And yes, it will overwrite your Steam-made backup, that's why you use 7zip or somesuch to back it up instead. Edited April 22, 2012 by SmilingAhab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevkiev Posted April 22, 2012 Author Share Posted April 22, 2012 egads, maybe I'll indeed give offline mode a shot. Thanks. At least, maybe one of the benefits of Steam getting into the modding scene with workshop is that they release a beta of the patch so at least the SKSE folks get a bit of lead time to update before the patch hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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