playing with controller but monitor keeps turning off.

[smooth_cannibal]

I've been playing this game and loving it. i am using a 360 controller emulator so i don't know if that is the issue. if i don't move the mouse after a while my monitor turns off like it is supposed to do when idle but i am not while playing this game. is there a fix or should i just choose to not have the monitor turn off with this game.

[Jonny Johnson]

Hmmmmmm. I have no clue. But... Maybe you should reinstall the game?

[ZombieInfected]

I have a similar problem. Screensaver kicks in after a few minutes of play.

[smooth_cannibal]

i disabled my monitor from shutting off and now the screen saver kicks in so i disabled that as well. i don't know how to uninstall a steam game to reinstall it and not lost my game save. i might email the sleeping dogs people and ask them before trying a reinstall. zombie indected are you using a controller emulator or are you using a real 360 controller?

[ZombieInfected]

I tried my Logitech Controller - no emulator, just plugged it right in. And my PS3 controller with emulator. Same error - so I guess it's the game.

[kevinw423]

I use an actual 360 controller and I have 0 issues with this. Unfortunately the kb + m controls in this game are pretty clunky for fighting.

[smooth_cannibal]

this is leading to think it has to do with not using a true 360 controller. i will email the sleeping dogs people and ask them whats up with this and post if they say anything relevant.

[Jerm357]

Your right... Its the game not liking controller emulator's that causes the problem. Reinstalling the game will not do anything. I had the same thing happening to me when I was using X360ce to get my old Logitech controller to work. I would just set the monitor to never turn off before I would start playing to get around it. I have installed this game many times after clean system install's and it was always the same, so dont bother reinstalling the game just to fix this problem.

I have now switched over to a xbox one controller and no longer get the problem at all.

[kewlbns69]

just curious....are you running nvidia hardware? my drivers have been crashing like crazy lately causing that "black screen" while gaming

[Jerm357]

I run AMD.

[smooth_cannibal]

I run a r9 280. I haven't had one crash at all with this game. just the issue with the screensaver/monitor is my only bugaboo with it.

[Jerm357]

I have had this game for a while so I had the chance to test it with a few different AMD cards over the years. The problem was there with my 6950, 270X and my current card, a 280X. I dont think the problem has anything to do with the card though.

[kewlbns69]

sorry i don't have very much experience with AMD gpu's all i can say is my one trip to AMD land away from nvidia failed and my "upgrade" caused most of my games to stop working :/

[smooth_cannibal]

well i emailed sqaure enix about this and they of course already got back to me with a terrible answer. first off they apologized for me having problems with my controller. not the game as i explained to them. i will just go with using a controller emulator as being the problem. also them telling me that only a 360 controller is compatible with windows (not even just the game) just pissed me off. i've been using my dual shock 2 with usb for 10 years. wasn't until i got back into gaming and found out all games now only really support a 360 controller which is annoying. the assasins creed games are the only one i don't have to do anything with. it works straight away without any fuss. i don't know why all games just can't be that way. i don't really like the 360 controller too much.

[kewlbns69]

i picked up a logitech F310 a few years ago cuz my dual shock wasn't working for a lot of the newer pc games....it's got dual mode dinput and xinput so it's compatible with pretty much everything u throw at it....i don't like the MS 360 pad either the last time i played a console it was ps2 so this thing makes me really happy. check it out man 20 bucks on amazon best thing i ever bought for my computer

well cept for my EVGA GTX 550 Ti SC this thing's been a beast :D

[CountZero]

The emulated controller is not registering keystroke/mouse-like activity because it doesn't need to most of the time. I assume the devs didn't account for Windows' Power Management APIs when porting the game in contrast to most of the other devs. This game is the only AAA game I encountered that fails in this regard. I use a program like Mousejiggler[mousejiggler.codeplex.com] as a workaround. The program is freeware and tiny. All it does is register mouse movement in the background to prevent screensavers/monitor turn offs from kicking in.

One could make a batch file to launch the game and mousejiggle and then quit the latter when the former finishes:

start /d "C:\Program Files\(x86)\MouseJiggler" mousejiggle.exe -j
start /w steam://rungameid/202170

echo Press any key to kill MouseJiggle to re-enable screenlock
pause
TASKKILL /IM MouseJiggle.exe /t
exit