Either SCS are messing about again or Steam, but it is getting annoying. Because you load the game and it won't load till the update has done. And you have to close it down. No game update since a very long time (at least since the beta started) for the stable 1.42 version. So what you get are either workshop mod updates or shader pre-caching.
Another new feature of Update 1.45 for Euro Truck Simulator 2 is an update for the Krone Trailers DLC pack. It includes two new trailers — the Profi Liner Building trailer (used to haul goods Options: Your Internet connection is slow or capped. Your hard drive is slow or full. Your CPU, RAM and mobo are slow and bottle-necking the data. Try re-starting Steam and clearing the cache. Test your connection speed with Speedtest.net and make sure Steam is not being blocked by any firewall or anti-virus s/w.Legacy updates Notice The Steam version of the game is updated automatically through the Steam client. Using updater or manual file download is only required for legacy non-Steam game installation. New: Updater Use the peer-to-peer protocol to get updates fast. Download the updater Patch from any older version
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is mostly a bunch of gigantic files (base.scs is 7.5 GB, etc). Steam patches files by applying the change to the file and rewriting it to the disk. This means that a single gigantic 8 GB file with 4 MB of changes incurs a complete 8 GB rewrite, so it's restricted by the time it takes to read out 8 GB and then write 8 GB.
Game update (patch) to Euro Truck Simulator 2, a(n) simulation game, v.1.4.x - 1.5.2, added on Thursday, September 19, 2013. file type Game update file size 68.9 MB
Right click on the game title in the Steam list and select: Properties->Betas, from the drop down list there you can choose one of the many temporary compatibility builds. Be aware that your current profile will not work and you will have to start a fresh profile. Also, every DLC newer than the game version you choose will not work anymore.
For those of You who play Euro Truck Simulator 2 and have problems after updating Your game to newer versions.This is a description on how to change an inco