Prevent screen from turning off when screen recording  

Hi, there's this free program - which also has some command line options- which may prevent that happening.
You could simply start that before your recording and see if it works for you.



Otherwise: consider what's actually turning your screen off? Is this a desktop and monitor, a laptop or something else?
No specs, and no build number (which the forum prompted you for).

If you wanted to make this automatic and the Game Bar itself offers no related options, then I'd guess as a first thought you'd be looking at a script to be running to prevent this

- if this is what's turning off your display- when the game bar is in use.

E.g. invoke Don't sleep, and then close it when the Game Bar is no longer in use.

If you want a simple script you can run when you are about to start a recording then you can use this one. I use it for similar jobs and some other TenForums members have successfully copied it for their own use.

Once started, it keeps on running until you tell it to stop by closing its window.

Keep display on.bat

Code:

:: Purpose - Stop the display blanking without changing power options
:: Closure - Hover the cursor over its Taskbar icon and click on the X button of its popup thumbnail [or click on the Taskbar icon and click on the x control of its Control box in the top right corner of its window]

@Title Close to allow sleep

@set ThisVBScript="%TEMP%\KeepDisplayOn-%RANDOM%.vbs"
    @Echo Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") > %ThisVBScript%
    @Echo WshShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}" >> %ThisVBScript%
    @Echo WshShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}" >> %ThisVBScript%  

:ReRunKeepDisplayOn
 @call %ThisVBScript% 
 @TimeOut /T 20 /NOBREAK >nul
@GoTo ReRunKeepDisplayOn

I run it by using a shortcut that minimises it to the Taskbar

and that uses an icon I chose so I could tell at a glance what it is that's running so I do not have to stop and look to check.

I put all my scripts within a folder that I've set up to require admin permission to edit as a security measure.
Set up my Tools folder ditty - TenForums

All the best,
Denis

Try3 said:

If you want a simple script you can run when you are about to start a recording then you can use this one. I use it for similar jobs and some other TenForums members have successfully copied it for their own use.

Once started, it keeps on running until you tell it to stop by closing its window.

Keep display on.bat

Code:

:: Purpose - Stop the display blanking without changing power options
:: Closure - Hover the cursor over its Taskbar icon and click on the X button of its popup thumbnail [or click on the Taskbar icon and click on the x control of its Control box in the top right corner of its window]

@Title Close to allow sleep

@set ThisVBScript="%TEMP%\KeepDisplayOn-%RANDOM%.vbs"
    @Echo Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") > %ThisVBScript%
    @Echo WshShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}" >> %ThisVBScript%
    @Echo WshShell.SendKeys "{NUMLOCK}" >> %ThisVBScript%  

:ReRunKeepDisplayOn
 @call %ThisVBScript% 
 @TimeOut /T 20 /NOBREAK >nul
@GoTo ReRunKeepDisplayOn

I run it by using a shortcut that minimises it to the Taskbar

and that uses an icon I chose so I could tell at a glance what it is that's running so I do not have to stop and look to check.

I put all my scripts within a folder that I've set up to require admin permission to edit as a security measure.
Set up my Tools folder ditty - TenForums

All the best,
Denis

Thanks for the useful script. I wasn't able to 'Thank' you today.