I’ve had this issue on Win 11 for awhile where having my flight control gear connected, my PC would never turn on it’s screen saver or go to sleep. I resorted to buying a powered USB hub so I could turn my controllers off when I was done flying. So many times, I would go fly in MSFS, finish up and walk away and come back later, to find my PC, still sitting at the desktop…no screen saver kicked in and it wouldn’t sleep…
Amazing! About 3 months ago, my flight sim computer (Windows 11) lost the ability to sleep or automatically blank the screen when using the “balanced” power plan. It seemed to happen about the same time I updated my NVidia video driver, so I thought that might be the reason.
I installed the new Windows update this afternoon, and sleep mode is working again! I do, of course, have several gaming controllers hooked up to my FS computer, so I assume one or more of them was causing the problem.
Did this actually solve the problem? I have had the same problem and bought a USB hub to work around it. With the latest Windows update, the display turns off as expected, but the PC never goes to sleep. Even if my joystick is unplugged.
I find the command helpful, but it does not find every cause for sleep issues.
A lot of applications and service can prevent sleep but especially at scale; it is important that Microsoft continues to address sleep issues; to prevent wasting resources.
With multiple monitor setups the amount of energy saved just having the displays turned off after a few minutes of inactivity is more than just a few watts. There is no need to leave it running unused.
Asobo has nothing to do with it. It was a Microsoft Windows update that fixed the problem.
If your pedals are generating any noise due to dirty potentiometers (and CH pedals are very prone to this), it will prevent your computer from sleeping. My controllers all use Hall effect sensors which are noise-free. Before the Windows update my computer would never sleep no matter how long I waited. After the update, sleep mode works correctly 100 percent of the time.
You mentioned in your earlier post, you were on Windows 10, correct? I’m not sure if the update MS pushed out to fix the controller > no screensaver > no sleep issue, was for Windows 11 only or both…It may be that they haven’t released the same update for Windows 10 yet…
In my case, recent windows update fixed it and new Nvidia Driver 528.49 did not break it.
Did you check that “In Game Overlay” is still disabled in Geforce Experience after driver update ?
