No, it will not interrupt the download, but as a tech guy, I dont like the idea of leaving your computer on all night. It might fry your processor.

My computer has is fried anyway, so it wouldn't matter anyway. My hard drive is nearly gone as it is. xD Thanks for replying!

then how is your computer working?!

It still works. Its just slow at times. Everything on my laptop has been reloaded on, like all basic programs and everything, probably about... oh this is the 3rd time...? Yeah... haha

How would leaving your computer on overnight fry it?!? I guess if a lightning storm comes through you can get a power surge but that will fry a lot more than the processor.

Originally posted by Soviet Butthole:

No, it will not interrupt the download, but as a tech guy, I dont like the idea of leaving your computer on all night. It might fry your processor.

You arent very tech savvy then to claim that your processor would fry for leaving a computer on over night, how do you think steam services provide 24/7 online including general business's? I left my computer on for well over 3 months without anything wrong with it.

OP:
No downloading overnight will not prevent the downloading unless the power goes out, and shuts the computer down. If you choose to go this route make sure the system is hooked up to a surge protecter as well as make sure the power plan does not put the computer to sleep or automatically shutdown

Yeah, I forgot my computer like automatically goes to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivey.... so yeah. I could be playing it right now, but its still downloading because I'm stupid. xD

There's screensavers, screen blanking(still running full power), sleep, hybrid sleep(low power AND saves a backup of RAM to disk), hibernate(actually off but when you boot it will be already running the programs from whence you activated it), and shut down(for real). (In addition to restart and logoff).

Go find your computer's power management control panel and also the screen saver settings. There are two sets of settings: Plugged in and On battery. I assume you have this plugged in all the time so adjust those first. You might even find that adjusting those makes your computer run even better, and last longer when you're on the road(assuming its a laptop).

Also Windows itself may have the ability to turn off your network when idle. Find that setting on each lan card's property screen and uncheck it.

But there are far more things that can be done to tweak windows for performance. Add/Remove programs, look at the MESS that is in taskmanager (190 running programs is madness, I'm down to 30 and could go further), the services control panel lists all those tasks in taskmanager you can't terminate(you can stop them from the services list). At least one hearty defrag, disk cleanup, update Windows and your antivirus and then a FULL scan of your HD.

But its all kind of pointless if the hardware doesn't meet the minimum requirements for the games. Some will be forgiving and attempt to run (poorly) anyway, while others will just deny you. Check the game's store page at the bottom (although for some games crucial info is missing).