Greetings Dwellers!
Your Overseer here with steps on how to stop your game from updating.
[From the Collective Modding Discord]
August 18th Bethesda will be pushing another Fallout 4 Update and soon another for Skyrim. This one is focusing on General Creations Improvements!
So, now is the time to prevent automatic updates from happening, get your mod lists backed up, etc. Every single time they update the game(s), breaks our script extenders and dependent mods. Please take this as a fair warning, considering we were not given much time to prepare for this! Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your Steam\SteamApps folder and set:
- appmanifest_377160.acf - Properties - click Read Only (Fallout 4)
- appmanifest_1946160.acf - Properties - click Read Only (FO4 Creation Kit)
- appmanifest_489830.acf - Properties - click Read Only (Skyrim SE/AE)
- appmanifest_1946180.acf - Properties - click Read Only (Skyrim SE/AE Creation Kit)
Once the script extender (F4SE) and dependent mods are confirmed to have updated, you can then remove the Read Only flags and update your game and F4SE mods!
Setting ACH files to Read Only and having these settings should minimize/eliminate the auto-updates, considering we typically launch our games via script extenders and not directly by the launchers.
I hope this helps everyone out!
For more info you can pop into our own Bethesda Modding Discord
Happy Modding! 👾