Auto shutdown computer when game finished downloading

[Will]

I know this feature has been suggested loads of times but come on, this is ridiculous especially for those of us with slow internet speeds. GTA V is not going to be finished for hours and I'll be asleep. Is it so hard to have a tick box on the game's download screen that says 'Shut down computer when download complete'?

There's a reason people keep suggesting this. It's a good idea. Many big games that take people hours to download, and many people becoming more power-conscious.

(PS: In the meantime until Valve grow sensible and implement such a thing, you can workaround without needing to download any other software or putting yourself at risk. Open a run prompt from your start menu, and type into the box: 'shutdown -s -f -t X' (minus quotations) where X represents the time delay in seconds, ex: 300 = 5 min. Simply enter a time value that allows your download time to finish. The -f suffix means force shutdown which closes any tasks that would normally prevent shutdown from occurring)

[Your-Cat]

that would be cool

[TheodorusRex]

I don't think anything except your os is able to shut your computer down. Pretty sure it can't be done remotely. If it could, it would make viruses really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying.

[PrideGroupIsEvil]

ya would have it's uses +1

[KaNdy.MaN]

Originally posted by Fuzzballkinz:

I don't think anything except your os is able to shut your computer down.

My antivirus can after a scan. I'm sure they'll figure it out.

[Will]

Originally posted by Fuzzballkinz:

I don't think anything except your os is able to shut your computer down. Pretty sure it can't be done remotely. If it could, it would make viruses really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying.

And BitTorrent, and various other download managers. And I once had a virus that did exactly what you describe, it kept shutting the PC down :P

[tuxfoo]

Thats a good idea, they should add that feature and as you said it would not be very hard to do, it would be a simple loop that checks how many games are in the download queue, if there is none then shutdown the system.

But for now you should be able to create a simple script to do that

For example in Linux and some other Unix based systems it would be something like this

#!/bin/bash

loop = true

while(loop == true)
        do
        throughput = ifstat -q 1 1 |sed -e '3p' -n |awk '{print $1}'
        if(throughput < 100.0)
        then
                loop = false
        fi
        done

sudo shutdown -h now