Prevent monitor from going into standby

In the control panel I've set my monitor to go off after 15 minutes. During monitoring, recording, playback and rendering I would love to prevent it from standby. Can we have some options for this (similar to the "Close audio device when ..." options)? Some media player applications have an option for this: "prevent screensaver from running during playback" or something like this.

I couldn't agree more with this request. A lot of the time, I turn on Reaper just so I can load my piano sample and jam at the piano for a while, which means I'm not actually touching the machine. As soon as the monitor turns off, the sound starts stuttering every few seconds (never could figure out why it does this, though). An option to disable screen dimming would take care of this in a jiff.

I've put it into the tracker: (please vote)

I wanted to post something similar so I'll shove it in here: I have seen my USB-powered keyboard controller turn off after an amount of time being idle (which requires disconnect-reconnect to bring it back). It probably has to do with Windows 7 + USB power management or something. If this could be avoided while Reaper is active would be great too!

I did change some USB power-management stuff (it happened on my laptop I think, not sure I've seen this on the desktop PC). I didn't test long enough after to make sure it's been fixed. I am just mentioning it as a safe-guard for people who may not know what's going when this happens to them.

Yeah. I just know from my machine that I can prevent the network card and my mouse from being powered off and sent into power saving mode (checkboxes in the device manager) ...

Sorry to bump a old thread up. I have a solution by using AutoHotKey script. My script below is to prevent screensaver from running by itself while the video is playing. However, you could change the window_class to Reaper's main window name. #Persistent ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED := 0x00000002 SetTimer, CheckWindowsState, % 1000*30 ; Poll every 30 seconds CheckWindowsState: If ( WinActive("ahk_class REAPERVideoMainwnd") ) { DllCall("SetThreadExecutionState", UInt, ES_DISPLAY_REQUIRED) ;prevent sleep } Return