I recently found out that a game I played froze when my pc went into auto suspend. Does this help with it too? Thanks for making this.
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According to the FAQ it doesn't help for your case. But they suggest another too. Maybe give that a look.
Thanks! Will do!
I maybe wasn't clear, I didn't make this, I just found it and figured folks here could benefit from knowing about it!
But no clue if it'll help with that, worth a shot tho.
Thanks for clearing that up. Thanks for sharing then. Maybe someone else knows this.
No, it won't help. It just suspends a task and going into sleep then won't help. Maybe disable suspend and change to hibernation. This would work. You most likely would need to enable it first:
Powercfg /h on
On a commandline.
You can try out easily with e. G. Procexp from sysinternals (a great Taskmanager-replacement too!). You can just suspend your game and try it.
Thanks for the tipp! Currently, I have a bit of a problem with hibernation. My proprietary gpu driver sends me to blackscreen and forces me to hard reboot. So that I might need to fix first. :)
I'd love that integrated into Steam Deck.
Not the same as native integration, but there is a decky plugin that does this:
https://github.com/popsUlfr/SDH-PauseGames
Thanks, will check it out!
Thank you for edit OP. I was wondering if this would be a good solution to trying to play 3 mins of Dark Souls while waiting for my rocket league teammates to join up. If I run two games at once my PC usually freaks the fuck out.
(still a cool app, thanks for the link)
Also I just noticed this is a crosspost, oops.
Is this any different from Windows suspend/resume? The feature built into task manager seems to free up RAM on the system.
At some point I thought about CRIU
I made a similar thing a couple of years ago, but there is no UI or configurability: https://github.com/wvdschel/pause_process
Nice! If I wasn't using the custom hotkey I'd jump to this for sake of keeping things lightweight. Thanks for sharing.
It has a global hotkey, but it's hardcoded to the pause button (Fn+P on most keyboards that lack a pause button).
Yeah, I just use pause for music, and I have a macropad with f13-18 so I just set one to trigger suspend.
Makes sense.