How do I check what's preventing my screen from idling

[Moonzy]

what should I look for in event viewer? or command prompt?

 

i set my desktop to turn off the screen after 5 minute

it used to turn off just fine, but last few days it stopped doing it and stayed on

 

OS: win 10

[Fasauceome]

command prompt, "powercfg -requests" to see what is keeping the PC awake and "powercfg -lastwake" to see what wakes the PC.

 

is geforce experience open on your desktop? it once confused me for a time, cause it's so subtle and it's not obvious that it keeps the PC awake

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

command prompt, "powercfg -requests" to see what is keeping the PC awake

 

4 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

is geforce experience open on your desktop?

i do, let me try turning it off

would be bummer though, if it's the problem -sigh-

i use shadowplay

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Moonzy said:

i do, let me try turning it off

would be bummer though, it it's the problem -sigh-

i use shadowplay

I do too, it's a pain in the ass when I forget to manually turn it back on for games.

 

was there an update at some point that disabled that? I could have sworn it used to automatically enable itself in game and disable itself when returning to the desktop.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

I do too, it's a pain in the ass when I forget to manually turn it back on for games.

 

was there an update at some point that disabled that? I could have sworn it used to automatically enable itself in game and disable itself when returning to the desktop.

I turned it off, screen still not idling

It's probably since a windows update, tbh

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

I turned it off, screen still not idling

It's probably since a windows update, tbh

I also have this problem since a Windows update.

I've just been either logging out or RDPing from my phone when I walk away because it'll sleep if I do either of those things. Perhaps I'll stop being lazy and actually troubleshoot it today.

[Mark Kaine]

59 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

I do too, it's a pain in the ass when I forget to manually turn it back on for games.

 

was there an update at some point that disabled that? I could have sworn it used to automatically enable itself in game and disable itself when returning to the desktop.

no, no update afaik. it's in privacy settings, you need do allow / disallow it to record your desktop.  if desktop recording is off it will automatically turn shadow play on for games (at least most of them, some obscure "windowed mode only" games won't be recognized)