Energy saving is active in Full screen

[Karl Hyne]

Hi,

I am new to the sm player and rely happy with it. But I have one problem. If I am looking a film in full screen the energy saving of windows ( 8.1) are still active. That means after 5 minutes the picture become darker and one minute after this the monitor is becoming black. Now I have to move the mouse every 5 minutes to become the picture brighter

I could change it in my OS energy saving options but it would be bothering to change the settings before and after a film. The thing is any other media player has not this problem.

What can I do?
Win 8.1 (64 bit)
Laptop: Core2Duo T 5870



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[rvm]

Could you test if the problem is still in the develoment version?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/smplay ... /Unstable/

[Karl Hyne]

Hello,

and thanks for the fast answer.

Now I am using SMplayer 14.3.0.6217 (32-bit).

This version preventing my monitor turning off but it is not preventing my monitor becomes darker.

Maybe the Output drivers is interesting? I had big problem with directx(fast). Cant go from full screen to an other application. Could not jump forward or backward. The picture stops.
directx(slow) has a (relative) high CPU usage.
So I tried direct3D. No problems (without this topic). And a great CPU usage. Even compared to other mediaplayers.

[rvm]

There are two options for the screensaver in preferences. Be sure you have both enabled. The first one should avoid the monitor to become darker.

[Karl Hyne]

Thanks that was the right advice.

I read over it a few times but never associated "screensaver" with my problem.

Now it is working.

Thanks a lot.