OculusVR.exe waking PC up

[Flusher1]

Hey guys,

I noticed that my PC keeps getting wakedup since I own the Rift. I checked in cmd with the command "powercfg lastwake" to find out what's the source for the wakeup and it showed me the OculusVR.exe. How can I prevent the application to wakeup my PC?

[TwoHedWlf]

Mine too, actually.  And I think it keeps the monitor from going to sleep too, but I can't confirm that.  A little annoying but not enough that I've looked into it too much.

[GravityX]

I think it wakes it up if it detects movement from the HMD. It seems like mine did at least. Are you maybe bumping the desk/table it's resting on? Just a thought.

As far as keeping the monitor on, I've noticed that my computer won't go to sleep if I leave the Oculus software open. Not a huge deal, but just a minor inconvenience.

[Flusher1]

No, not that I know of. I leave my desk with the PC being in standby, observe it a few seconds longer if it boots up again and leave. A few minutes later I come back and it's on again.

[EliteSPA]

You have ghosts in your house  😉

[Flusher1]

Doubt it. Why would there lost souls wander around here in heartless switzerland 😛

[Constellation]

I'm definitely having this issue and I know for sure it's something to do with the Oculus runtime:

powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
  Wake Source Count - 1
  Wake Source [0]
    Type: Wake Timer
    Owner: [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files (x86)\Oculus\Support\oculus-home\OculusVR.exe
    Owner Supplied Reason: none

[neonridr]

You could always unplug the headset when you aren't using it.  I know that's not the most intuitive solution, but it should prevent your PC from waking.

[Constellation]

Getting down on the floor and unplugging my Rift every time I want to go into sleep mode may or may not prevent the problem; if there's something wrong with the runtime I might have to close that as well. Regardless, what Flusher1 found is a bug and it needs to be fixed.

[kdaub]

It is definitely the rift software, it used to be ok if you just shut down the OR program, but for some reason now, the program leaves a background process running that wont let your PC sleep.  You have to stop it in Task MNGR, which is a pain.  It's called "OVRServer_X64.exe"  unfortunately if you stop it, you have restart your PC to get the rift to work again.  If someone has a fix please post it!