2ndvenus,

That's interesting (in a concerning way). I posted a thread to Avast's forums. See here. I encourage you to add your frustration there.

Each individual setting within Avast's game mode can be turned on/off. The only real issue here is that they added the feature, turned it on by default and left myself (and other users) at our wit's...

I think I may have found the culprit in my case: Avast Antivirus.

I'm assuming this is a change to their "Game Mode". I went to Performance>Game Mode>Settings. Then under Performance there is a...

I think I may have found the culprit in my case: Avast Antivirus.

I'm assuming this is a change to their "Game Mode". I went to Performance>Game Mode>Settings. Then under Performance there is a...

Apparently I missed this thread.

I have the same issue. AMD CPU/GPU so that would suggest it's not the graphics program. I haven't found a solution to it yet.

Also, I've only noticed it...

I had noticed my PC wasn't going to sleep as expected. What I found was the power plan had switched from my custom Balanced plan to the High Performance plan.

I've been able to reproduce this by...