Downgrading / Preventing auto-updates
Only update once all frameworks are stable!
Things fall down when you let go of them, and mods break whenever a game updates. That is due to framework compatibility.
Always make sure that your framework mods are up-to-date.
You should generally wait with updating to the latest game version until all mods are up-to-date. If it's too late for that, you can try downgrading Cyberpunk, or wait until the frameworks update.
In GOG, this is a global setting — you can only disable auto-update for all of your games.
Open the settings and select the entry
Game features in the sidebar, then uncheck the box for Auto-update games.
In the EPIC launcher, this is a global setting — you can only disable auto-update for all of your games.
Open the settings menu and scroll down to
MANAGE GAMES, then disable auto-updates.
Unlike the competition, Steam will not give you any control about auto-updating. For that reason, you need to forbid it from writing to a specific file on disk, without which it will be literally unable to update. Here's how:
- 1.Find the
steamappsfolder (:- 1.Right-click on Cyberpunk 2077 in your Steam Library and select
Properties - 2.On the side bar, click on
Local Files - 3.Select
Browse. This will take you to Cyberpunk's install directory, which is inside the folder we want (e.g.C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Cyberpunk 2077) - 4.Navigate two levels up
- 2.Find the file
appmanifest_1091500.acf - 3.Set the file to read-only:
- 1.Right-click on the file and select Properties
- 2.At the bottom of the dialogue, check the Read-only box
As long as Steam can't write to this file, it can't update Cyberpunk. Once you are ready to update, simply uncheck the Read-only checkbox again.
Don't forget to deactivate it again later!
- 2.Head to the Cyberpunk game detail page
- 3.Find the settings button next to the Play button
- 4.Select
Manage Installation->Configure… - 5.Select the game version
Sorry, choomba, you're fucked. No downgrading possible.
Since 2.0, Steam supports downgrading to version
1.63_hotfix.1. Right-click on the game in Steam and select Properties, then go here:
For downgrading to other versions, see the expandable box below.
Longer instructions can be found in this MakeUseOf guide, but the condensed version (courtesy of our lovely Discord community) goes as follows:
First turn autoupdate off for Steam now so that you don't forget to do it later. We'll wait.
The depot for the current version 1.63 is
download_depot 1091500 1091501 3385393324409330817 (this is version specific. Please reach out to update the version if it's outdated.)- 1.Open Steam
- 2.Press
Win+R - 3.Type
steam://open/consoleto get into the steamdb console - 4.In the console, enter this command exactly to start the download (it'll be the entire 60 GB so be prepared):
download_depot 1091500 1091501 3385393324409330817 - 5.After the game finishes downloading, go to the installation location listed in the console, and copy either just the changed files (you can view the manifest for the new version) or the whole thing over your game directory to overwrite the new changes.
This should leave you with the correct previous game version. You can right-click cyberpunk2077.exe to verify the versions in Properties > Details.
You might still need to do a script cache reset or other cleanup before the game starts up nice, so head on over to those instructions if need be.
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