One of my frustrations with Windows Mixed Reality is when pausing a Steam game like Project Cars 2 (because real life sometime gets in the way) and leaving Windows for a while it terminates the game meaning you lose your progress.

This is due to Windows Mixed Reality going to sleep and terminating the game. The good news is with the October 2018 update there is a hidden registry setting preventing the shutdown. (I haven’t tried it on 1803 build machine yet)

The setting is pretty easy to do which I found on this post on Reddit:

Run an admin command prompt and enter:

reg add HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Holographic /v ScreensaverModeEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Reboot and then the fix should be applied. I just tried it and it seemed to have worked.

Leave a Reply