Viersbovsky Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 My problem is the following: In multiplayer, after a certain amount of time, the screen suddenly turns black (like with a G-out effect), and my monitor even shows a "no video device connected" message. Sound keeps being played and the game seems to keep running in the background. After pressing a button on the keyboard everything goes back to normal. My theory: DCS1.5 is not recognized as a running application as long as no keyboard key is pressed (I fly purely HOTAS), so windows turns off the monitor as part of energy saving. I have now tried setting my energy saving to 1 hour and will report back if the problem keeps persisting. My specs: OS 64-bit Windows 7/; DirectX11; CPU: Core i5 2500k; RAM: 8 GB; ; Video: Asus Strix GTX970 Callsign "Lion" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viersbovsky Posted October 25, 2015 Author Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) Addendum: I have tried the opposite and set screen powersaving to 1 minute. Even when moving the joystick and pressing (stick)buttons all the time, the screen will go black after one minute. Only pressing keyboard keys will prevent the screen going black. I can confirm now that this issue is because of powersaving options. (I have no idea how other games stay "active" even when using only a controller/gamepad, but DCS1.5 seems to lack this "flag" or whatever it is) Edited October 25, 2015 by Viersbovsky Callsign "Lion" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinusoidDelta Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I've had this happen several times when either the server crashes or I try connecting by IP to an MP server that is unavailable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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