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Prevent Skyrim from Updating
An infernalryan Skyrim Modding Guide


Overview
This guide provides instructions on how to prevent Skyrim from updating. This is to ensure that you don't accidentally update a manually downgraded version, or be surprised by an official Bethesda auto-update which will break your current mod load order.

This guide is for Skyrim SSE/AE for Steam and GOG. If you are using the GOG version without GOG Galaxy, you won’t have to worry about updates. Skyrim VR also does not need this process as there is only one game version used by the general playerbase and no future updates are expected.

Guide Contents:

    • Instructions for preventing updates for both Steam and GOG platforms
    • Further reading for links to other helpful information


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Instructions
Follow only one of the two options and their associated step(s) below, based on your Skyrim game platform (expand their respective 'Spoiler' tag).

Option 1: Steam
The steps below will lock the Skyrim manifest file by making it read-only.

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    • Open the ' steamapps' folder in the base Steam location you installed Skyrim to. For example, if this was ' C:\Games\Steam', open ' C:\Games\Steam\steamapps'.
    • Locate the ' appmanifest_489830.acf' file.
    • Right-click the file and select 'Properties'.
    • Under the 'General' tab, place a checkmark in the 'Read-only' box.


    • Click the 'OK' button to save.



Option 2: GOG
The steps below will prevent updates through the game configuration menu.

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    • In GOG Galaxy, select your Skyrim game.
    • From the 'More' menu (next to 'Play' or 'Update'), select 'Manage installation > Configure…'.


    • On the dialog that opens, under the 'Installation' tab, be sure 'Automatically update to newest version' is unchecked.


    • Click 'OK'.





Further reading
See below for links to other helpful information.

Other guides
See my guides page on Nexus for other helpful Skyrim modding guides.

Changelog
See below for changes made to this document.

  • Version 1.11 (04/25/2024)
    • Initial release


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