Monitors no longer sleeping

[MattVernon]

This worked fine for months, however recently my monitors will not sleep when wallpaper engine is running. I have audio turned off within Wallpaper engine, and I made the change to the multimedia setting when sharing media.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for what I can do? Thanks!

[Biohazard]

If you have a web wallpaper there is more necessary to make Chrome (webwallpaper32.exe) stop preventing sleep: http://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/2/1354868867716398763/

Otherwise please share the wallpapers you're using, video/scene/web wallpapers should definitely allow sleeping, even in a playlist.

Any kind of overlay might be doing something unknown too, so those should be disabled. You could use this to see if anything is blocking this: https://lifehacker.com/5924010/how-to-find-out-whats-keeping-your-computer-from-going-to-sleep

[MattVernon]

No web wallpaper - I have tried with various screen savers including those that previously worked. The 5 options listed in powercfg -requests System, Awaymode, Execution, PerfBoost, and activelockscreen all list none. I am only trying for monitor sleep, not for full PC sleep. I have tried to set the moitor sleep for 2, 5, and 10 just to confirm that it is not that setting. The current wallpapers I am using are: Mon 1, CyberroomNautical by Moof, Monitor 2 is nothing, Monitor 3 is Transisitor Opening Scene Moving Wallpaper by Cheeki Breeki IV Damke

Thanks for any help or suggestions you can offer, let me know what additioanl info I can provide. I am an IT guy, so I have some technical experience.

[MattVernon]

I restarted my PC, and I also closed Wallpaper engine to confirm sleep does work properly, it slept normally if wallpaper engine is closed.

[MattVernon]

Another update, I now see this message in powercfg /requests

DISPLAY:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\bin\webwallpaper32.exe
Playing video

[Biohazard]

Originally posted by MattVernon:

Another update, I now see this message in powercfg /requests

DISPLAY:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\bin\webwallpaper32.exe
Playing video

Okay, that's either a genuine web wallpaper with embedded video or just a single webm video, so that could explain it. I guess most likely a webm video then.

Have you tried to apply the powercfg override for webwallpaper32.exe from the thread I linked? That is *supposed* to make the PC ignore that entire process.

If you did and it doesn't work let me know, then I'll have to check that out again. But sounds like this is the culprit.

[MattVernon]

my current overrides:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /requestsoverride
[SERVICE]

[PROCESS]
chrome.exe DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE
webwallpaper32.exe DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE
wallpaper32.exe DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE
wallpaper64.exe DISPLAY SYSTEM AWAYMODE

[DRIVER]

I am still not having any luck with the displays going to sleep.

[MattVernon]

I also made the group policy hanges suggested in that same article and have not had any luck either. Sorry to be a pain. Thanks!

[Biohazard]

Thanks, yeah, it looks like all overrides are set up right.

I looked at the two wallpapers you mentioned in the beginning, but neither are a webm video. Are these the right ones?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=861755503
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1114206642

These shouldn't cause webwallpaper32.exe to start. Could you check which wallpaper is related to this so that I could try it with the same one on my end?



Maybe this issue is completely unrelated to this though. But first it would be useful for me to check out the wallpaper that does show up in powercfg /requests and how it behaves with display sleep on my end.

[MattVernon]

Those are the two i have had active while testing all this.

When i open Wallpaper engine, 4 processes open. wallpaper32.exe and 3 instances of webwallpaper32.exe I have 3 monitors, but only 2 have wall paper from wallpaper engine. Not sure if a process for each monitor is spawning on program start.

[MattVernon]

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /requests
DISPLAY:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\bin\webwallpaper32.exe
Playing video

[MattVernon]

Have ot head out to work, i'll try any suggestions when i get back this afternoon. Thanks!

[Biohazard]

Could you share the configuration from here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\config.json

Please share it via www.pastebin.com - if it doesn't fit, should be enough to share the first few hundred lines.

[MattVernon]

https://pastebin.com/LQVQ2UM7

Here you go.

[Biohazard]

Thanks. Well the first issue is solved, there were two similar wallpapers, you are actually using this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=940848538

I also can't seem to make /requestsoverride do anything for this, I'm not sure why. I've tried using the full path or tried it without the extension but it doesn't seem to do anything. Assuming /requestssoverride isn't broken, I must be doing something wrong about it, but the same issue should exist with Chrome and others seem to consider this the solution.

Since it shows up under DISPLAY, this should already be sufficient, but doesn't do anything either:

powercfg /requestsoverride PROCESS webwallpaper32.exe DISPLAY

A workaround would be to just convert it to mp4 so it doesn't use Chrome's video player for this. Otherwise the only option I can think of would be figuring out what's going wrong with the /requestsoverride option.

[MattVernon]

Chnaged to different wall papers and it is sleeping properly now. Sorry that a wallpaper error was the root. Cannot thank you enough for the help!