Computer occasionally goes into sleep/hibernation while playing Fallout 4

[Jackosaur]

Randomly my computer goes into sleep during play of Fallout 4.
I then have to press my power button to wake it up. My game is paused so and it can take off from where I was but it's pretty annoying.

I have an AMD Radeon R9 270's as graphics cards. (2 of them linked together)
16gb ram.

I have tried using a free program called Insomnia, which is supposed to prevent the computer going to sleep. Occasionally it is successful and when it is, I see a notification to say my graphics card driver has crashed but recovered.

I have always downloaded the latest drivers whenever a new update is released.

Does anyone know what might be the solution?

Could it be I am pushing the graphics card past their limit? It was a pretty high end gaming PC middle of 2014 when I bought it so I would have thought it could handle Fallout 4 on max settings. Maybe not???

If anyone has any suggestions please advise.


EDIT: This issue was from 2016 and now okay, might have been a software update or game patch fix it.

[craigsters]

right click on your desktop, and scroll down to Display Settings and hightlight it and click it, and in the left hand side , scroll to Power and sleep and change both pull down menus to never

[BizarreMan]

Interesting.


Does it do this while you are actively playing? Like in mid step it just goes to sleep, or is it while you have it paused and are away for a bit?

Have you checked the power settings on your computer? Maybe it is powersaving because it thinks you're not using it? You can set it to where the computer never sleeps.

Are you playing with keyboard/mouse? I have seen keyboards that have a sleep button. Press it and the computer goes immediately to sleep. Could you be pressing that?

Is your computer hooked up to a UPS? It's possibly you are having power issues, or the UPS is having issues and it's telling the computer to hibernate.

I wouldn't expect it to be anything with the graphics cards because that would lead to crashing or other strange behavior. Not just naptime.

[Jackosaur]

It happens mid step while playing, definitely not idle. My power settings are already set to never allow hibernation.
I am playing with a keyboard and mouse but definitely no hibernation key anywhere.

It is not hooked up to a UPS, but It's not power problem as it never happens when using the computer any other time. Just randomly while playing Fallout, sometimes I can go an hour or more, sometimes once every few minutes.
It does not occur on other games, except it did once happen while I was playing War Thunder.

I believe it sort of is a crash but for some reason causes sleep. Like I said in original post, occasionally instead of sleep mode it crashes to desktop and it says something like the graphics driver has had a crash but recovered.

[Jackosaur]

Anyone know of any combination of the keyboard controls in Fallout 4, e.g. W A S D that could send the computer into sleep mode?

[Pvt. Stash]

Originally posted by Jackosaur:

Anyone know of any combination of the keyboard controls in Fallout 4, e.g. W A S D that could send the computer into sleep mode?

I'm not aware of any Win+<key> combinations out of the box that start sleep or hibernation.

What version of windows?

EDIT: Some things you can try...
Check your screen saver. This happened to me once a long time ago.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1708130/computer-sleep-mode.html

Make sure your PC isn't overheating.
http://superuser.com/questions/392936/computer-randomly-goes-into-sleep-mode

There's also a bug in Win10, but you have to hack your registry to fix it. I can't vouch for this fix or encourage anyone to mess around in regedit unless they know what they're doing.
http://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/17899-monitor-turns-off-after-2-minutes-inactivity-3.html#post441903

[Jollyfingers]

I remember a post in another games forum with a similar problem....can't remember where (maybe Witcher3).

Somehow Windows energy saving didn't register keyboard/mouse activity when the game was running, with only very few players encountering this problem.
I don't know what caused it, but in the end they just disabled any energy saving options because they didn't find another solution.

[Jackosaur]

It is indeed Windows 10. I think it is either a crash of some sort or a key press combination of some sort that is sending it to sleep mode. The reason I don't think it is to do with the power settings is because it occurs randomly, if it were because it thought I was idle it would occur at the same amount of time each time. Sometimes it goes to sleep litterally a minute or two after it last happened, other times can go an hour or more. Besides, I have my energy settings to never allow sleep anyway.

[Park_Ranger]

It's either a power saving option somewhere, or your PC is just getting too hot.

There is no key combination that would cause that.

Try monitoring some temperatures with something.

[Krabbygirl]

I recently started playing Civ V, and I'm having the same problem Jackosaur had. Anyone have a fix for this? My laptop is randomly going to sleep during active gameplay. I've changed all my power saving settings to 'never'. My laptop is not idle. I am not pressing any hotkeys. I don't wear any magnetic jewelry. This doesn't happen during any other activity, only Steam Civ V. The laptop is plugged in and fully charged. It will go to sleep anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 hours into gameplay. It's completely random. Driving me crazy! Any help would be appreciated.

[Krabbygirl]

Note: I am using Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron 17.

[Fang]

Originally posted by Park_Ranger:

It's either a power saving option somewhere, or your PC is just getting too hot.

There is no key combination that would cause that.

Try monitoring some temperatures with something.

I've never heard of any hardware going into hibernation mode when overheating. Shutting down? Obviously. Rebooting? Sure. Hibernation? Eh. Though google suggests it can happen, which is interesting.

I'd put my money on an obscure Windows bug with the OP's system.

I'd just re-install the whole OS instead of digging for it, but then I have 3 extra drives and an SSD for OS so I don't have to worry about backups and can be back up and running in less than 5 minutes.

Good luck, try checking with regedit to see if hibernation is somehow enabled there. Google the right key.

[Serlin]

I've begun to have the exact same problem on my PC. Started two months ago with For The King - computer would just crash randomly to sleep mode (and couldn't be woken - needed to reboot completely). Nothing to do with overheating, I could play other games for days straight, no issue. Thought it was just FTK...until exact same problem started happening with Minecraft Bedrock yesterday. Random crashes, sometimes loading a world, or after a few seconds or minutes playing in a world - computer crashes into sleep mode and can't be woken. Seems almost certainly to be a problem with Windows somehow....

Been farting around on computers for many years, and have never seen this before. If anyone's got ideas about what the problem might be, let me know. Thanks.

[Gungar]

Im getting this problem too on my Dell laptop. Its like it doesnt see the game is being played and goes into sleep. Press on and game is still up and etc.

[gregnewman2202]

To jackosaur and Gungar , This might sound silly , Do you happen to live in an area where your laptops can get ''toasty'' ? . I live on Cape York Peninsular , Queensland , Australia where temperature reaches 40% Celsius ( We're metric over here ) with over 60 humidity .
My Leader Resistance Laptop will ''shut down '' and every time it goes into sleep quite often
( you can the internal fans working overtime ) until it '' wakes again '' . Could this be what
you're both experiencing ? .

[gregnewman2202]

Some thing else I forgot to mention , How often do you clean the fan vents ? this is a big problem where I live .