

RELATED: Should You Shut Down, Sleep, or Hibernate Your Laptop? You can also do this from any web browser. You can download games to your gaming PC from anywhere, ensuring those big downloads are complete and the game is ready to play when you get home. Steam allows you to remotely install games from your smartphone, just like you can with a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One.

Show more Whenever I close my laptop, it goes to sleep mode and my Steam downloading is pause. I am trying to download games without causing my entire room to be. This is exactly the reason why any downloads stop in the sleep mode. Long story short, your computer shuts down most processes, including the communication card. In case you’ve wondered if it is possible to keep downloading a game while your computer is in the sleep mode, unfortunately, the answer is no.

This is really annoying because I have to go into Windows' settings and disable sleeping while the game downloads so that I can leave it unattended. As the title says, Origin currently allows a machine to go to sleep while downloading/updating a game.
