[Dimon]

First, I want to say hello to all of you here!

Guys I have a problem that makes me very disappointed for many years.
It is that my favorite screen saver does not allow my PC to either turn off the monitor, or hibernate itself.

When I set the Marine Aquarium screen saver it does not allow my PC to power off the monitor and then to hibernate after the timeout I specified when aquarium is running. As I only choose any of the Microsoft standard screensavers the PC does switch off the monitor after 20 minutes and then hibernates after 45 as I selected.

As for the drivers and sleep time. I have already got the latest drivers for my video card and I have always used 45 minutes for sleep (hibernate) time. Please note that my PC is able to either turn off the monitor and to hibernate itself but only not when any of your screensavers are running...

Once again this is the problem:
1) I choose any Microsoft screensaver that is Windows built-in and my PC
first turns off the monitor (15 min) and then hibernates (45 min);
2) I choose any your screensaver (Marine Aquarium, Goldfish, or even
Sharks) and my PC does not turn off the monitor (15 min) and does not
hibernates (45 min);
3) Again I choose any Microsoft screensaver that is Windows built-in and
my PC first turns off the monitor (15 min) and then hibernates (45 min)

And so on.

Please note, I do NO changes to ANY settings between the first two
steps. So If I set Windows' screensavers back again then my PC again is
able to hibernate.
That eliminates my PC as a problem and that tells us that the problem is
the SereneScreen Aquarium. (sorry I don't want to hurt you).

Please also note that I have two notebooks and another PC at my home and
this behavior is 100% the same on all four different type and years
machines (one of them is using Windows XP SP3)! More over I have this
problem for many years already with your screensavers as I wrote before.
Just thought that perhaps somebody could solve it finally.

I looked in the Internet that there is such problem with the Windows
when it uses Direct 3D screensavers (the PC is unable to hibernate
because the CPU is not idling but is seriously loaded). If I remember
the API does not allow to hibernate in such case. But that is the
problem of Windows XP and I couldn't find the solution for Windows 7.
Perhaps you could find the solution of this problem...

This problem was present very long ago in Windows XP and then I have done about three or four upgrades to my PC, so currently its a very modern machine running Windows 7 but the problem is still the same! Please let me if there is any solution for this? And I should tell you that I have never obtained your screen saver (running demo) because of this. I really need my PC to be able to hibernate itself automatically!

Currently I am using the latest screensaver vesrion: W201.3.2 6025