Windows 10: Why does being in a video game not keep the monitor awake after 3 minutes?

Desktop PC stays awake after 3 minutes of youtube viewing, however, after 3 minutes of just idling inside the world of a video game, monitor goes blank and I have to move the mouse to see the in-game world again. I've tried it for three games...Path of Exile, Diablo 4, and Final Fantasy 16 Demo. I do want my monitor to go to sleep, but the video games will not keep it on, unless I am actively using the mouse/keyboard/game pad, like inside a video game battle...but inside a video game cinematic cutscene that lasts longer than 3 minutes, it will turn off and have to move the mouse or push a key

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Windows 10 can't stay awake

Grep and Kapil,

Thank you for your help. I was not able to get the Windows 10 to stay awake the configured 30 minutes. But, going through the steps provided, I was able to improve Windows staying awake from 2 minutes to 11 minutes. Why 11 minutes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

MD

 

Can't get Youtube to show videos in Chrome

Load this checklist video in Edge: (I'm assuming you did at least a few of these steps, since you stated you tried other suggestions earlier) Go through the list of suggestions here to try to repair YouTube for Chrome...

 

3 Monitor Setup: Monitor 2&3 Are lagging when gaming on Monitor 1

Hi,

I have Win 11 23H2 x64 running on:

Ryzen 9 7900x3d, RTX 2080ti, 64gb DDR5 Ram

The system operates on a 3 Monitor Setup all 144hz or higher.

obviously i want to use my 3 monitors while gaming so I play on main monitor and additionally watch a stream or videos on second monitor.

So the entire setup is:

Monitor 1: Game

Monitor 2: Twitch Stream

Monitor 3: Discord screenshare

In that moment, i tab into the game, both streams (discord and twitch) are lagging and running with 1 frame all 3 seconds. this counts for both application (web browser + discord) so it is not a setting in browser.

I recently upgraded my system (mainboard ram and cpu) and on my older hardware (ryzen 7 3700x, 32gbram) this problem did not occur.

Please help me.

Regards

YUMA