Steam preventing Windows 10 sleep ?

[jeskynar]

New computer, installed Steam, played a game, exited it, and now the laptop won't sleep!

When I press the power button or use the Sleep menu the screen flashes black but it doesn't sleep.

I've checked all the powercfg diagnostics and there's nothing listed so I'm baffled. I've seen other threads with the same problem but not solution. Any ideas?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Disable Hardware Acceleration in Steam Client Settings. Minimize all open windows of eveyrthing.

Disable Mouse power management in Device manager so any mouse movement or touchpad; can't wake the device. Also disable all settings regarding Wake on LAN for both the wired and wireless network adapters that the system has.

[OLDMAN🎅]

disable sleep it never did work half the time it doesn't wake up

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von OLDMAN:

disable sleep it never did work half the time it doesn't wake up

[Illusion of Progress]

I've never had an issue with sleep under Windows 7 which I used regularly for around the last decade almost every night, nor Windows 10 which I started using earlier this year.

Point is, for each person saying "it never works", another will say "it has always worked". The OP isn't having issues with it not waking up, but (seemingly) with something (immediately) interrupting and waking it up, which is probably the more common issue and isn't inherently an issue with sleep itself but just finding out what is interrupting it and waking it up before you manually tell it to do so.

[jayrichardm]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von jeskynar:

New computer, installed Steam, played a game, exited it, and now the laptop won't sleep!

When I press the power button or use the Sleep menu the screen flashes black but it doesn't sleep.

I've checked all the powercfg diagnostics and there's nothing listed so I'm baffled. I've seen other threads with the same problem but not solution. Any ideas?

I had a problem with my network waking up my computer. I don't know if this will fix your problem but you might check this.

Go to your Device manager. Under Network Adapters find your internet adapter. Right click on that and select Properties. Under Power Management un-click the box that lets your network wake up your computer.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Some computers suffer from insomnia. It's a chronic disease, that's why they can't sleep.