Sleep mode crashes game

[Muttley]

If I'm gone for too long my game goes into sleep mode for some reason, is there a way to fix that? it keeps crashing my computer to the point that I've had to hard reset it about 5 times now

[TRE Hitman]

Happens to me in Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76. Def a Bugthesda thing.

[DarkEternal]

Have you tried turning off sleep mode in your Windows settings? I have sleep mode turned off and can walk away from my game for almost an hour and come back with no problems. AFAIK, there's no built-in sleep mode for Beth games lmao

[kucsidaveee]

Sorry for the necro, I know this is old, but I have to get this out.
The same thing happened to me, but on the extreme side.
I have 2 monitors, so the PC itself managed to get out of sleep mode, since I saw my desktop on my 2nd monitor.
But the primary one was consistently blank, and I could do nothing. Alt + F4, CTRL+ALT+DEL,
Nothing happened with anything. Clicking on icons on the second monitor didn't do anything either.
I resorted to reseting the PC and guess what. It killed my C drive. Luckily, my PC coud restore it, and thank god I didn't loose any data in the end, but it is definitely a possibility, so people be aware.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by kucsidaveee:

Sorry for the necro, I know this is old, but I have to get this out.
The same thing happened to me, but on the extreme side.
I have 2 monitors, so the PC itself managed to get out of sleep mode, since I saw my desktop on my 2nd monitor.
But the primary one was consistently blank, and I could do nothing. Alt + F4, CTRL+ALT+DEL,
Nothing happened with anything. Clicking on icons on the second monitor didn't do anything either.
I resorted to reseting the PC and guess what. It killed my C drive. Luckily, my PC coud restore it, and thank god I didn't loose any data in the end, but it is definitely a possibility, so people be aware.

Steam does not work with sleep mode. Fallout barely manages to alt-tab, on its own. Combine the two means:

turn your computer off properly if you're not using it. shut down your game, then steam, then your computer in that order if you're walking away from it for any length of time. Neither the game nor Steam plays well with hibernation.

[Death Approaches]

exactly there is no sleep mode code in the game; that rotating idle aka vanitycam is what is your screensaver, and it goes indefinitely; while disabling PM is not an ideal situation, I would make sure your drives are not spinning down; if the drives go to sleep and need a wake-up delay you'll usually deadlock just rolling the mouse to "wake it up" - it's been that way forever for a lot of people.

[_KC76_]

Same thing with "pause" .. if you "pause" in the menu for too long, the game will crash shortly after coming out of pause and trying to play more .. the game just does not know how to process this lack of data transfer to extreme data transfer transition.

[Iron Knights]

Are you sure you don't have hibernate mode on ? This is not a Bethesda issue.

[kucsidaveee]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Steam does not work with sleep mode. Fallout barely manages to alt-tab, on its own. Combine the two means:

turn your computer off properly if you're not using it. shut down your game, then steam, then your computer in that order if you're walking away from it for any length of time. Neither the game nor Steam plays well with hibernation.

Bit of clarification:
I was not trying to shut the PC down. I just walked away while "playing", only pausing the game to take a phone call, and when I went back, the PC was unable to react to anything.
Trying to close the game, or launch any other program, alt+f4, nothing. Not even to clicking my mouse, but the mouse itself moved. Reseting the computer was only my last dich effort to make my pc do anything as I was stuck in basically limbo.
The game window was oich black, my second monitor had my desktop.

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

Are you sure you don't have hibernate mode on ? This is not a Bethesda issue.

This is the only game anything like this ever happened. I am also not sure if it is a fallout 4 only issue or not, as I don't play 76 and Wolfenstein never had a problem like this, and that is a bethesda game, so I know it is not a bethesda issue.

[Zotliatlicor]

Windows / Computer issue, not Bethesda issue.

The devil is in the details....enough said.

[🖤Lyra🖤]

Grab some duck tape

Grab your pc

And strap that pc with duck tape around your stomach now you have a mobile desktop and won’t have to worry about ever leaving the game

[kucsidaveee]

Originally posted by Zotliatlicor:

Windows / Computer issue, not Bethesda issue.

The devil is in the details....enough said.

they why is this only happening with this damn game?
If this would be a computer/windows issue, this would happen regularly with multiple games.
And this NEVER happened before.

[Zekiran]

Then your computer may have had its sleep mode / hibernation settings changed with an update. If you're on w10 or 11, check those settings. If it didn't 'happen before', and you know you've walked away for significant periods, something obviously changed and I can 10000% guarantee it was not the game.

I have w7 and don't use hibernation mode, and have walked away to make dinner and start eating before I remember oh yeah I was doing something... Perfectly fine.

But as stated before: Steam nor this game play well with actual hibernation on a computer. It's likely a combination of those factors that led to it happening 'this time'. I'd suggest entirely turning hibernation mode off, or use a different power profile if you're on a laptop plugged in.