Downloads stop when idle

[ReeNoiP]

As the title says, my steam downloads stop after leaving the computer idle for a little while (10-15 min). The moment I move the mouse it goes back to full speed. By stop I mean, the download speed falls to 0, not steam stopping the download.

I turned off power saving and specificly checked that they don't turn off the hdd, but the problem persists.

Anyone have an idea what's going on.

[Dirty Rotten Girl]

thats odd. does this happen with other programs or downloads?

[ReeNoiP]

Originally posted by Loli TheSpaceAlligator:

thats odd. does this happen with other programs or downloads?

It's been a while since I last downloaded anything sizeable, but it's never been a problem before.

[Dirty Rotten Girl]

maybe go into your browser and download some large file like a skyrim mod or something and see if it does the same thing. of course only for test purposes so you can delete the file afterwords

[ReeNoiP]

I'm gonna necro this because it's still happening.

Tried downloading a large file through firefox with no problem. Also no problem downloading stuff from battlenet.

Also tried limiting my download bandwidth and changing download region to no avail.

[KudKudah]

Got the same problem today. 5-10 minutes idle and steam download stops.

[Quarks&Quasars™]

I have the same problem. I went to advance power options, changed "turn off hard disk after" to 'never' from '20 mins' in hard disk section. I thought it was causing the problem but it didn't solve anything.
edit: I also changed screen saver settings to none (it was set to blank), seems to have solved the problem
edit: NOTHING solved the problem for me as of now.

[✪MC Sosi]

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[blumeenie]

Just sarching the forum, as I have exactly the same issue. "10" minutes after i let my machine idle the download stops. I have checked but it isn't happening outside of steam, torrent is still running all night.

[昊天]

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[Quarks&Quasars™]

I think it's the problem with hard drive. Try defraging it

[über alles]

Thanks guys!!!

[TrueMouse]

Same issue, new gaming computer. I think it's a steam issue and should have a option to disable it. Anyway, I will just play a game while it's downloading. (The issue doesn't occur if your actively giving input to the device).

[Bartix]

my downloads stop when my laptop sleeps, not after a set time. when i leave it on, the downloads go on as normal.

edit: downloads cannot occur when in sleep mode, but i do not have an option to manually turn off my monitor, since its a laptop. I also dont want the screen to turn off after 5 minutes, so its an L for me.

[Jura]

Yeah its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anyoing i put the dcs to download went to sleep only to find out its on 8gb when i woke up,then i left it when i was going for school and the same thing happend it only got to 14gb