Question / Help OBS Prevents Sleep While Replay Buffer is Active

[circle_k]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature.

Basically, if I try to put my computer to sleep while OBS replay buffer is on, my displays will turn off but the computer won't sleep. I have to turn off the replay buffer first, then the computer will sleep just fine.

Is there a way to put the computer to sleep without disabling the replay buffer first?

 

[Osiris]

No, you need to disable any kind of output in OBS for Windows to not see it as something that's blocking sleeping.

 

[Suslik V]

I think, because of design flaw, user don't see that button is in "activated" state and process is running. Running replay buffer = use PC resources like during recording (except the disk space).