According to Nexus, there is another update to Skyrim on the way. Some people may not want to update at the moment, so we are going to show you how to prevent updates on Steam until you want to reenable them. First, find the App ID, for Skyrim it is 489830 but you can find/do this for any game by looking at the "properties" of a game in your Steam library, going to the "updates" tab, and finding App ID listed there.
Next go to the Steam library folder on the drive where you have Skyrim installed. In this case it is C:/SteamLibrary/steamapps, but will be different depending on your installation. Here you will find a file named "appmanifest_489830.acf". Set this file to read only, and Skyrim will not be able to update on Steam until you turn off read only mode.
This will make it so you can't launch the game directly through the Steam browser normally anymore as it will have a disk write error when it tries to update (using Starfield as an example). You can get around this by launching the game through the Skyrim executable, SKSE, or a mod manager instead.
with starfield coming out, what was your opinion on baldur's gate 3 as a dnd newbie? i wasn't able to catch the stream and the games sitting in my steam library until i can get home (stuck in germany at the minute w/o an eta for flights) so it'd be neat to hear what someone else new to dnd thought of it
I absolutely adored it, can't wait to do a second modded playthrough, just giving them some time to get a patch or two out - and I've got Starfield to play too!
I think for some people going in completely cold without any idea of what DnD is or how its played with friends may take some time getting used to it, but there's definitely a moment where it clicks and you understand all the insane stuff you can do.
Hopefully you get home soon and get to play it, it should absolutely be game of the year.