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XBMC for Windows suspend/sleep questions? - yellowman - 2009-05-24 Hi, I´m trying to get sleep/suspend and resume to work properly with xbmc running. The problem I´m having is that when coming back from sleep the screen is white, although xbmc is still running(I hear navigation sounds). And if I bring up the task-manager, xbmc appears in the background. Anyone have a solution to that? If not, is there a way to kill xbmc before going into suspend. And start it when resuming? Running Babylon on Windows 7 64bit. Thanks! Edit: Found this tool called MCE Standby Tool: http://slicksolutions.eu/mst.shtml And this post: http://www.degroeneknop.nl/forum/index.php?topic=3717.0;all So then I can run a bat-script that exits xbmc when entering sleep and another script that starts it on resume. Seems to work.. - punking - 2009-05-30 I have the same problem is there any chance you could post your script and explain how you utilized it. I'm also using Windows 7 64bit. - yellowman - 2009-06-02 Sorry for the late answer, here´s how I did it: 1. Download and install MCE Standby Tool at http://slicksolutions.eu/mst.shtml (Note if you´re running Windows 7 you might need to look in the forum for a working release, there´s a link on that page). 2. Make a script called "exit_xbmc.bat", that looks like this: Code: taskkill /IM XBMC.exe 3. Make a script called "start_xbmc.bat", that looks like: Code: taskkill /IM XBMC.exe 4. Open regedit(start menu, search, type regedit, hit enter) 5. Control-F. Search for "Herman Van Eijk", click on "MceStandbyTool". 6. Find "RunOnUserSuspend", and put in the path to the "exit_xbmc.bat"-script. For example C:\exit_xbmc.bat. 7. Find "RunOnUserResume", and put in the path to "start_xbmc.bat". Maybe you need to restart(can´t remember). Hopefully it should work. Let me know if you have any problems or if it worked ok. Cheers! - punking - 2009-06-03 Thanks for taking the time to write that out. I'll try it out this evening. That works well now. Thanks very much. - sesam - 2009-06-18 I have this exact same problem (white screen after resuming from sleep), on Vista 64 and with a Nvidia 9400 GT graphic card. Note that we both have an 9400GT, so I tried with an ATI HD3450 and no problems occur there. So it does appear to be Nvidia related only, a bug in XBMC or the drivers maybe? I would rather prefer to fix the cause of the problem, rather than a working around it EDIT: YAY!!! Another night well spent, I tried numerous different Nvidia drivers versions.. and I got it 100% working now (without any workarounds), tried resuming about 10 times in a row without a problem . I'm still puzzled over what exactly solved it, but anyway the recent changes I had made before it started working: - installed old Nvidia driver 181.22 WHQL - Uninstalled NVIDIA stereo drivers - Uninstalled PhysX drivers - Set BIOS Onboard VGA, enable if no ext PEG, init display first PEG - powersettings, adaptive display off (writing this here for future reference, next time I re-install Windows and start pulling my hair out) - CrashX - 2009-08-30 It works fine here on Suspend Specs: Windows XP ATI 1400 XBMC 22434 Always on Top enabled in advancedsettings .. - kulprit - 2009-08-31 OK my problem is a bit different. My computer goes to sleep fine with my remote, but I can't get it to sleep automatically with xbmc open. Have tried the option in the system menu and doesn't seem to do anything. Anyone got suggestions. - peng1can - 2009-09-11 Same problem here, and I also have an nVidia card, though mine is an integrated GeForce 8200. Running Windows 7, 32-bit. I removed the PhysX drivers with no change. I'm not really willing to try downgrading my drivers, but I'll check the other settings that sesam mentioned. - peng1can - 2009-09-11 Got it working. I did update the NV drivers to the latest version, but I think what actually solved it was turning off hybrid sleep mode. I've seen similar display issues with similar types of suspend running in vmware, so it didn't surprise me when I found that setting and suddenly things started working. |