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RaveTZ
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February 8, 2014

Help needed. Prevent OS sleep.

Any advice on how to prevent an OS from going to sleep for any of that make VR games that don't require input from a keyboard / mouse / controller. I can't exactly tell the player to change their power profile.
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    raidho36
    Up and Coming
    February 8, 2014
    Well you should, because there's no easy way for that. Not in unity.
    cybereality
    Inspiring
    February 11, 2014
    That's a good point. Let me see what I can find out.
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    drash
    Inspiring
    February 11, 2014
    On Windows, the solution I think is to send some bogus mouse input using SendInput, but I have no idea how to do this in a cross-platform way. Really good question!
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    cybereality
    Inspiring
    February 11, 2014
    I just tested this on Winodws 7, and there seems to be no problem. I set sleep to kick in after 1 minute. Then I opened Tuscany Unity and left my desk. Even after a few minutes, the machine did not go to sleep. It appears having a full-screen game running prevents sleep mode.
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    RaveTZAuthor
    Up and Coming
    February 15, 2014
    "cybereality" wrote:
    I just tested this on Winodws 7, and there seems to be no problem. I set sleep to kick in after 1 minute. Then I opened Tuscany Unity and left my desk. Even after a few minutes, the machine did not go to sleep. It appears having a full-screen game running prevents sleep mode.


    Windows is giving me a completely different issue. Any notification (updates for Java, steam, anything) minimizes the Unity build (always freaks me out).

    I'm still diving into how to address these oddities.
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