Downloads zeroing out when left alone

[xcontaminantx]

Decided I wanted to play skyrim again, but new machine and new drives meant fresh install for the game and all mods. Got vortex, queued up a lot of mods (~150 separate downloads with all mods and mod patches and etc considered, tonnes in the kB - <20MB size range)

Whether I lock my computer, or stay logged in and let the screen just sleep on its own, after an indeterminate amount of time the download speed just zeroes out and I have to hard reset vortex to get it to start downloading anything again. (This is the quick explanation, more detail bellow)

 

 

 

I have no idea if it is completing a download and then not progressing to the next in the queue, or if it arbitrarily stops in the middle of a download, I also don't know whether it's happening exactly whenever my pc puts the screen to sleep, or if it continues for some amount of time before stopping. I can't say 100% that my connection isn't the issue but I doubt I've had 3 disconnects in the last 24 hours, especially since there's no problem if I leave vortex downloading in the background for a few hours while using my PC.

All I know for sure is I have a whole lot of downloads queued with the "resume download" pressed after any resets, I left my computer first on over night, came back to still at least 100 mods not downloaded and the download speed zeroed, then earlier through the day twice I left it up for 1-2 hours and came back to it again zeroed with some tiny mods downloaded but the progress frozen. It's frustrating as I thought I'd wake up to all the mods downloaded and it's taking way longer than it should have to get this all downloaded because of this zeroing out issue.

[Tannin42]

> hard reset

 

what do you mean by "hard reset"?

 

> I have no idea if it is completing a download and then not progressing to the next in the queue, or if it arbitrarily stops in the middle of a download

 

why exactly don't you know that? if it's stopping in the middle of the download you have a half-finished download, wouldn't that be something you can check for?

 

 

The most likely issue is that the energy settings of your system are set up to send your system to sleep after a period of inactivity. So effectively your system was powered down with just the memory being supplied power so it can recover quickly.

This obviously cancels all downloads. Since the download links are only valid for a limited time period, Vortex is probably not going to be able to resume downloads that had already started.

[xcontaminantx]

> hard reset

 

what do you mean by "hard reset"?

 

> I have no idea if it is completing a download and then not progressing to the next in the queue, or if it arbitrarily stops in the middle of a download

 

why exactly don't you know that? if it's stopping in the middle of the download you have a half-finished download, wouldn't that be something you can check for?

 

 

The most likely issue is that the energy settings of your system are set up to send your system to sleep after a period of inactivity. So effectively your system was powered down with just the memory being supplied power so it can recover quickly.

This obviously cancels all downloads. Since the download links are only valid for a limited time period, Vortex is probably not going to be able to resume downloads that had already started.

What I mean by hard reset is that I can't jump start any of the downloads inside of vortex at that point. If I try to pause then resume the downloads nothing happens, and downloads only resume when I completely quit vortex then re-open it.

 

Maybe it just means there aren't any partial downloads, but until any of the downloads start all of their progress is marked as "???".

 

Admittedly, I'm just an end user and couldn't possibly guess at how vortex downloads actually work, so while your explanation does make some sense, the problem from my limited perspective is I can name any number of programs (from steam to firefox) that happily download away while my PC is left like that. In fact, while I've never had skyrim on this PC, I did have and mod fallout 4 on this machine using NMM before vortex was even a thing, and even it happily downloaded while the machine was idle overnight. That's why I came here assuming it was some kind of bug/issue because I've never had download programs seize up from my PC idling before.

[xcontaminantx]

Just updating in case anyone else ends up with this problem: despite no changes, vortex ran fine overnight the second night and hasn't had a repeat of this issue since. Most logical guess is that it was a few coincidental network outages yesterday each time I left vortex running on idle.