Can I pause the downloader?

System · August 2011

I searched for an answer to this and didn't find anything so I'm sorry if I'm asking a repeat question. I am trying to download the game client today and it's about 80% finished with the download, but I can't leave it running indefinitely, because I work online and it slows everything to a crawl if I try to do both at once. If I use the cancel button on the downloader will it cancel altogether and make me start over? Or when I return to it will it pick up where it left off?

I really need to pause this thing but I am hesitant to stop it in case it starts over from the beginning. I know I have a fair amount of patching to look forward to too, so pausing would really help.

Archived Post · August 2011

not sure about the downloader. I know th e one from cyptic is a very simple bittorrent.
as far as patching goes once you install the game the patch does remember where it left off. and only downloads what needs to be updated.

skygemini1 · July 2014

I know this is an old thread but the issue is very much current & I can tell you that cancelling the patcher & download, will NOT start up where you left off. I know because it got to 60% (which took hours) and I needed my connection for something else, as the patcher is a resource hog. And I'm on a fairly decent broadband connection that I've played WoW for 8 years now, so it's not my net that's a problem.

Trying to start it back up was a joke, I had to shut down any mention of STO, etc in task manager, then go in through my log-in page to a little envelope at the bottom right (that said: "your game's ready to play!"---of course, it wasn't) And the patch has just started all over again from 0%.

I think that a game, which needs to download gigabytes+ in order to function, should ALWAYS have a pause & resume, that's just laziness on the dev's part. I hope this isn't just a taste of things to come whenever the game does finally decide to let me play!

The higher, the fewerrrr....

askray · July 2014

skygemini1 wrote: »

I know this is an old thread but the issue is very much current & I can tell you that cancelling the patcher & download, will NOT start up where you left off. I know because it got to 60% (which took hours) and I needed my connection for something else, as the patcher is a resource hog. And I'm on a fairly decent broadband connection that I've played WoW for 8 years now, so it's not my net that's a problem.

Trying to start it back up was a joke, I had to shut down any mention of STO, etc in task manager, then go in through my log-in page to a little envelope at the bottom right (that said: "your game's ready to play!"---of course, it wasn't) And the patch has just started all over again from 0%.

I think that a game, which needs to download gigabytes+ in order to function, should ALWAYS have a pause & resume, that's just laziness on the dev's part. I hope this isn't just a taste of things to come whenever the game does finally decide to let me play!

The higher, the fewerrrr....

for starters - never say that because xx works my broadband isn't a problem. Internet connections are not all the same, they don't all go the same place

Secondly, if you're talking about the actual patcher (not ARC) then yes it does. When you stop it, it'll turn off but it'll resume where you left off but show at 0% done however the files are still there going and it'll jump you a bit ahead.

This has been stated before.

Can I pause the downloader?

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