That very feature can be life or frustration saving too. Sometimes Windows will do an update and do a forced reboot without letting me know, since I am in fullscreen mode, I do not see the warning they put up. This has happened when I was in a long dungeon and I was Ever so grateful the the game kept playing while I went through the process of rebooting and restarting the game. All that time was not wasted because the game held on to my character until I got back. I love it that there is that time delay.