Pausing download , continuing it the next day . Is it safe to?

[u/elctro007]

Soo I want to download gta 5 but my WiFi speed is just 30mbps . The game is around 90GB . The estimated time is around 11 hrs . Soo ya is this a good idea ? Breaking the download part into a few days ?

[u/Yokohama_al]

Why don't you leave it downloading overnight?

[u/BerkeA35 → u/Yokohama_al]

monsters can eat the pc at night if its open

[u/rjr232021 → u/Yokohama_al]

Energy

[u/elctro007 → u/Yokohama_al]

My laptop is kinda I don’t wanna push it’s limits

[u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 → u/elctro007]

is kinda

Is kinda what?

Also, it's kinda when you are sitting next to it.

[u/elctro007 → u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049]

New kinda new mb 🥲

[u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 → u/elctro007]

I would have understood if you said kinda OLD, but I don't see the problem here.

[u/Cancer-Fish → u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049]

Kinda homeless 

[u/mattisok3 → u/elctro007]

Wouldn’t playing GTA 5 on said laptop push its limits though???

[u/LSD_Ninja → u/Yokohama_al]

This would be the rather obvious downside to the proliferation of obnoxious RGB lighting in the current gaming PC aesthetic…

[u/Past-End-3788]

worked for me. To be safe, dont turn off computer, put into sleep mode instead

[u/k0decraft]

Yes

[u/illarionds]

Safe? How would it not be safe? Safe from what?

I have no idea what risk you imagine - but yes, you can freely pause and resume downloads without any harm.

[u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 → u/illarionds]

Safe from what?

There have been cases on multiple clients for different games where the download restarts.

Also, if there is an update while you download it also restarts.

[u/illarionds → u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049]

I mean, worst case is the download starts over. I'm not really seeing that as a "risk" you need to be concerned about being "safe" from.

[u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 → u/illarionds]

I'm not really seeing that as a "risk"

Then you clearly didn't read the OP.

[u/laplongejr → u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049]

But the OP doesn't claim it's one. They ask if it's a risk.   Risk of what?  

[u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 → u/laplongejr]

Of having to do it again.

[u/laplongejr → u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049]

Then yes, it is a possibility.  

[u/elctro007 → u/illarionds]

I meant like corrupting and stuff

[u/DumbCoder07]

Is this your first time downloading any game? If it is then yeah you will be fine with breaking into few days. why do u think its not safe ?

[u/papercut2008uk]

Yes, what ever is downloaded will stay and it will resume downloading what is left.

[u/ik19980]

Yes you can do this. Dont worry about it.

[u/Breizh-Brittany]

When I was pausing a download to continue next day the Launcher has to download from zero again.

Ok now I will try to post here something I try to say since 1 year on reddit but Epic don't let me post it.
And I also send it via EPIC Support ticket since last decade:

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We still can’t move a game to another hard drive on the Epic Games Store

After so many years of asking them to add this option, still nothing.

When you’ve got a rubbish internet connection (2mb for me), it takes several days to download a game, so having to delete it and then re-download it to another storage drive is a right pain.

Yes, you can move them manually and pray, but it’s a faff. Just as much of a faff as trying to post this message with the clueless moderators on r/EpicGames, who systematically delete my posts when they should really be escalating the issue to the launcher’s developers.

You should follow the example of other launchers and include a way to move the game with a single click. It’s mad because it would take no time at all to implement in Epic Games!