screansaver activates even while using gamepad

hello, when playing Trackmania Nations Forever (steam version) with a
Logitech Rumblepad 2, the screen saver in Vista Home Premium activates
after a few minutes wich makes it impossible to continue playing until
keyboard or mouse is touched.

The problem doesnt happen while using the mouse and keyboard for
driving. And also doesnt happen on Windows XP SP2

i'm using the drivers Logitech Rumblepad2 - lgs502 04/04/2008 , on
Windows Vista home premium (32bits)
but it also happens if i remove the logitech driver and just use
vista's own.

i unstalled the driver and tested in 3 games, 2 of 3 games who have
joystick/gamepad in the menu and TMNF supports the rumble feature,
caused my screen to blank after 5mins (settings in control panel's power
options). the other 1 (bullet candy on steam) surprised me with not
blanking my screen.

i'm worried that it might be a vista problem. because in the control
panel's / game controler applet, i see it move the red parts when i
press the buttons but it still doesnt wake the screen.

i mean by that, that the computer itself doesn't go to sleep mode or
hibernation (because i didnt set it up for that), but that the windows
screensaver options / power settings make the screen turn off after
5mins, and its fine, since sometimes when i'm away from the puter, i
want it to turn off automatically like after 5 mins of no activity.

But i count gamepad movement as activity the same as mouse and
keyboard. but vista doesn't.

Anyway, i uninstalled the Logitech profiler on vista and tested it that
way, and no difference. i thought it was a "wake" option i had to set
for the usb controler in the device manager, but that didn't help
either.

i'm at a loss for what else it could be. i'm thinking its a bug in
vista itself since even it own basic gamepad driver doesn't wake the
screen. if you know of an update for the usb driver for vista (not
gamepad) i would appreciate a link.


i wonder how many other games are affected by this?

Any idea if this can be fixed in vista?


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