Windows 11 Screensaver / Display Sleep functions not working

no they haven't.

Thank you. I will try this.

I did this AND set the wake events to "important only" and set my screensaver for 1 minute.. and yay it worked. hopefully, it will continue to do so. thank you. funny enough, my other laptop i had to turn to NEVER sleep because of some strange graphics thing that would glitch when it did... smh which is why i have this NEW one lol.

A few weeks ago, I can't remember exactly when it occurred (May have been after installing W11) my screensaver and display sleep functions just completely stopped working. I have tried every trick in the book. I have updated my BIOS and chipset drivers. Powercfg -requests shows an audio stream running from realtek, I tried overriding it but didn't solve anything. I confirmed every power option setting is correctly enabled. Basically I've spent extensive time googling and troubleshooting this to no avail.

The one thing that did fix it was running the DISM restore commands in CMD Prompt, however, it only works temporarily for the initial reboot after running that command, and then it stops working again if I reboot a 2nd time.

What can I do to fix this problem?

Forgive me for being sinical, but Windows 11 came with a lot of problems. Some of mine have been impossible to solve.

Go into registry and uncheck screen saver manually so it doesn't check itself in the energy saving settings. If it is checked in those settings, screen saver will not work on Windows 11 as it is a update and it checks the screen saver button as part of saving energy mode, so just uncheck it in the registry if if won't let you in settings, then your screen saver will work.