Downgrading / Preventing auto-updates
Only update once all frameworks are stable!
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Only update once all frameworks are stable!
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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 Galaxy, this can be done as a global setting — you disable auto-update for all of your games — or as a per-game option for some games like Cyberpunk 2077.
Open the GOG Galaxy page for Cyberpunk 2077 and click the manage icon next to the big play button, then Manage installation and Configure...
Disable the Automatically update to the newest version checkbox. Optionally, select the game patch you want to play on here.
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:
Find the steamapps folder (:
Right-click on Cyberpunk 2077 in your Steam Library and select Properties
On the side bar, click on Local Files
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)
Navigate two levels up (in windows explorer this is done by clicking the up arrow at the top left of the window, next to the file path, or by using the shortcut Alt + Up Arrow Key)
Find the file appmanifest_1091500.acf
Set the file to read-only:
Right-click on the file and select Properties
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!
Head to the Cyberpunk game detail page
Find the settings button next to the Play button
Select Manage Installation -> Configure…
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.
