PCem disabling host's screen saver/power saving

[VileR]

In Windows 10, if I happen to have PCem running, it prevents the screen saver (which also locks the machine) from kicking in:

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The program has made a request to prevent the display from automatically entering a low-power mode.

Requesting Process 	\Device\HarddiskVolume8\emulators\PCem_v17\PCem.exe

This happens even if PCem isn't currently in the foreground, which is kinda silly. Could that be fixed in the future? Or made controllable via a config option?

[leilei]

SDL2 does have a screensaver-disabling function and disables screensavers by default.

[VileR]

Yup, thanks for the wiki link - I set an environment variable SDL_VIDEO_ALLOW_SCREENSAVER=1, and problem solved.

It'd still make sense for PCem set the desired behavior explicitly... but at least there's a workaround.