Windows 10 (2004) - Does not sleep with Gamepad

Anonymous
2020-06-02T00:31:12+00:00

Hello,

after upgrading to Windows 10 (2004) my PC dies not go to sleep any more when I plug-in one of my gamepads / controllers. This happens with any of my 4 controllers (all of the same kind).

For the controllers (a USB cable Speedlink SL-650000-BK, XInput / Xbox 360 compatible) the following driver has been installed during the upgrade:

Xbox 360-Controller for Windows (08.12.2019 - 10.0.19041.1)

I do not know which driver has been installed before. Maybe the same? However, with 1909 everything worked perfectly.

I can even narrow down the problem. When the controller is plugged in, GetLastInputInfo (winuser.h) always returns that input has been given some ms ago. So Windows always gets input, but nobody is doing that physically, of course. Therefore, Windows does not sleep.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Sleep and Power on, off

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-05-29T14:04:20+00:00

    We are at windows 21H1, the issue is still here. And yes workarounds exists, but god how many years have to pass before MS fix the sh1tty issue.. Probably its more important to work on rounded corners and gay icons, colors etc.. instead of core components.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-05-29T13:19:43+00:00

    Hello folks,

    I have the same problem, since I got my Thrustmaster T16000M FCS package.

    Disabling Geforce Experience or the overlay did not help. (This seemed to be a problem back in 2018)

    So I went to the Device manager and checked all my devices if they affect the sleep mode. (be careful, do not de-activate mouse AND keyboard ;) )

    I concentrated on the game controller as they seem to be the troublemaker in 99% of the cases (as in mine...)

    Disabling both devices (throttle and stick) makes PC sleep normally.

    Both devices do not have a power management tab and i could not change power settings or wake setting using the command line.

    What is strange in my case:
    If I do a clean re-start of my system sleep mode of the monitor won't work.

    If I then just shortly de-activate and re-activate both the throttle and the stick in the device manager sleep mode will work like a charm again.

    So I do not have to keep my devices plugged out, I just need to have them shortly disabled once.

    So option A) for me is:

    I ordered a switchable USB-port. But to be honest... I will hate fiddling with that thing everytime.

    Option B is:
    I created a small batch-file that de- and re-activates the game devices. If I run this as Admin it works just like my manual workaround.

    I now have to make it run on start-up as Admin and i should be fine for the time being.

    Maybe this also helps for you?!

    Short how-to:
    I opened notepad and typed the following (without the dashes)

    pnputil /disable-device "HID\VID_044F&PID_B10A\6&1D8AD952&0&0000"
    pnputil /disable-device "HID\VID_044F&PID_B687\7&2808F29F&0&0000"
    sleep 1
    pnputil /enable-device "HID\VID_044F&PID_B10A\6&1D8AD952&0&0000"
    pnputil /enable-device "HID\VID_044F&PID_B687\7&2808F29F&0&0000"

    In the " " brackets is the ID for my HID-compliant game controllers. This can be found in the device manager.

    Right click on the device --> Properties --> Details --> Device Instance Path (or similar, translated by me from German "Geräteinstanzpfad")

    If you have mor or less devices causing this problem, then change the code accordingly.

    Save the file as YOURFILENAMEHERE.bat

    Run it by right-clicking and select "Start as Admin" (or similar)

    Hope that I can set it to be started automatically as Admin

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-05-12T16:59:53+00:00

    Yea, thats the kicker. I know it WAS a problem. And figured it is what it is. Then it went away. So now that its back, I'd like some answers. Yes or No, not this flip flopping.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-05-11T21:24:44+00:00

    we all waiting answer here  around 2 years :> welcome

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-05-11T20:30:04+00:00

    I have the official Sony bluetooth dongle for dualshock 4 and the behavior has been weird. Initially if I left it in my PC it would never enter sleep mode.

    So during covid I was doing work from home and decided to make this work FOR me by plugging it into my work PC so it wouldnt sleep. The pc went to sleep. So I try back in my pc and oddly it would sleep again. I dont recall the version, maybe 1909, etc.

    I havent used my controller for 3 months or so. I plug it in today and surprise, the old behavior is back. I know windows hustled me into an update 1-2 weeks ago so I will assume that was it.

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