Wake external monitor up faster?

[broodrooster]

I have a 14 inch MBP running a 34 inch MSI QD Oled.

When the screen goes into sleep mode, the MBP screen almost instantly wakes up when I move the mouse. The MSi external monitor takes 'forever' it seems (15-20 seconds if I had to guess).

I have tried display port cable (from the thunderbolt port on the MBP) and HDMI cable.

Is there anything in the MBP settings I can change to make the external monitor wake faster?

Thanks, Andy

 

[Htbaa]

Could be the monitor is just slow to react. But one thing that usually helps is setting the input on the monitor to a dedicated port instead of auto-detect.

 

[broodrooster]

Good point you mention there, I will check that in the settings now!

 

[broodrooster]

Autoscan was turned on. It is turned off now. See if things improve ;-)

 

[uniball]

I’d be interested as well. My MBA in closed clamshell mode never sleeps. But when I turn my Ultrasharp off, when turned back on it feels like an eternity to display an image. It’s auto-sensing only (I think). But I’m shopping for a replacement and if I need a non auto-sensing port I’ll add it to my criteria.

 

[CAcreeks]

I’d be interested as well. My MBA in closed clamshell mode never sleeps. But when I turn my Ultrasharp off, when turned back on it feels like an eternity to display an image. It’s auto-sensing only (I think). But I’m shopping for a replacement and if I need a non auto-sensing port I’ll add it to my criteria.

If you Sleep your Macbook Air and then close the lid, does it wake up? Maybe you have the wrong settings in Power options. "Wake for Network Access" maybe.

Or possibly you have a hinge/switch hardware failure.

Must you turn off your Ultrasharp monitor? Energy Star approved monitors consume a fraction of a Watt when asleep. My monitors wake up relatively quickly, Dell faster than LG.

 

[broodrooster]

All port were on auto sensing. I turned it off - it did not make any difference in wake speed unfortunately. I might need a firmware update? Not sure,..but it is very frustrating

 

[broodrooster]

turned to scanning of ports of and set a static option so its not sensing. Unfortunately it did not make any difference.

 

[uniball]

Thanks, I have no option but it looks like I'm not missing a solution.

 

[uniball]

I’d be interested as well. My MBA in closed clamshell mode never sleeps. But when I turn my Ultrasharp off, when turned back on it feels like an eternity to display an image. It’s auto-sensing only (I think). But I’m shopping for a replacement and if I need a non auto-sensing port I’ll add it to my criteria.

If you Sleep your Macbook Air and then close the lid, does it wake up? Maybe you have the wrong settings in Power options. "Wake for Network Access" maybe.

Or possibly you have a hinge/switch hardware failure.

Must you turn off your Ultrasharp monitor? Energy Star approved monitors consume a fraction of a Watt when asleep. My monitors wake up relatively quickly, Dell faster than LG.

I turn off the display because the screensaver does not work. This is a fairly common issue with Monterey. If I effect the screen saver via a hot corner its lucky if it remains on for 5 minutes. Turning the display off is the simplest solution.

But thanks for the response as it caused me to delve into PM set and the prevent sleep column in Activity Monitor to see if there's anything amiss. Activity Monitor reports: powerd is preventing sleep, for no reason I can think of. The WindowServer, of all things, is preventing sleep, no idea how to chase that one down. bluetoothd is preventing sleep even with nothing connected, weird. sharingd is preventing sleep even with nothing connected. pmset -g confirms all that. Tossed all the plists, did nothing. Power options is interesting as the schedule does not work, but they're all set like I want them. Could spend some more time looking at the various pmset commands as they may shed more light on what's going on. But turning off the display works, the Mac runs fine from a user pov and a slow reconnect to the display is less painful than a clean install. I do keep an up-to-date and tested bootable clone. As this seems to be an OS issue, cheap insurance.

I still run Monterey as since Snow Leopard I've not updated the OS that was shipped with any of my Macs. If software requires an update, I replace the machine. Too many buggy releases to bother with for some new emojis and widgets. What's odd is my Intel box is configured almost identically and all of the above works fine. So I assume 1), its time for a MacOS update/clean install, ie new computer. Or 2), Apple silicon has its differences when in closed clamshell mode. This could be as I ran for 2 years without using the Dell with this machine and I don't recall any issues. On-the-other-hand, I tended to simply close the lid and walk away, not much opportunity for this stuff to affect anything.

Again, thanks for causing me to look and decide to do nothing.