Windows 10: USB Xbox Controller / Joystick preventing monitor screen display from turning off

Certain USB gamepads / joysticks / steering wheels prevent the screensaver running and/or the monitor from switching off after the time set in power and sleep settings.

The screensaver will kick in but immediately exit or the monitor will go blank as if to start the switching off process, but then immediately 'wake up' again.

Unplugging the USB device will of course solve this but is undesirable and unsatisfactory for many users, and continually doing this might cause damage in the long run.

Previously, there were reports of NVIDIA geforce experience overlay being the problem, but it is not always the case - I and many others have disabled it or removed it entirely but the problem still persists, so in many cases Windows itself is the culprit.

Years later and with umpteen updates, this has still not been resolved.


Please can Microsoft once and fall address this issue ?

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Windows 10 - USB Joystick prevents display from powering off

I am having the same problem after upgrading to Win 10 with Saitek Pedals, CH Joystick and CH Throttle, any of them plugged in prevents the computer from going to sleep, turning off monitor or going to screen saver.

Was not a problem with Win 7.

 

USB joystick

Did the joystick work on Win10 prior to v1803 update ?

Which MS games ?

What brand and model joystick ? Does the joystick show in Device Manger > Human Interface Devices,

Universal Serial Bus Devices, or XBOX 360 Peripherals ?

[ Funny thing about Sound, Video and Game Controllers, is the game controllers don't get listed there. Never have

on my machine. ]

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Xbox One Controller preventing monitor from going to standby mode!

Hello,

I've ran into a new problem last 1 month I am having this issue and I have just diagnosed last night the problem that is causing my monitor to not turn off its display.

It turns out that there is some very tiny drifting going on with my Afterglow Xbox One Gamepad Controller. Afterglow Wired Controller for Xbox One I've had this controller for the last 10 months, it is still in warranty. I've used it only with my PC, I don't have a console.

However, it appears despite re-calibrating the controller from the game controller settings in control panel, it is preventing Windows 10 monitor from going to sleep.

I've set my monitor to turn off after 1 minute. But it doesn't turn off. But if I lift the analog sticks upwards this somehow fixes the issue, but obviously not a proper solution at all.

Now, the strange part is that I never had the problem under Windows 10 1809 and when I upgraded from 1809 to 1903. It is only after I had freshly installed Windows 10 1903 then this problem started to emerge!

Last 1 month my monitor has never turned off its display even though I've set the power option for it to turn off after 15 minutes of inactivity.

If I disable the controller from the settings or unplug the controller, then monitor display will turn off. I have noticed that it appears that Windows installed the latest Xbox One Controller drivers and I am wondering whether this is the cause of it?

I never had this problem last 10 months. I've had this controller since September 2018. Can someone shed some light? I don't want to have to unplug the controller so monitor can go to sleep.