Windows 7 RC goes to sleep automatically while in use

Hello everyone!
When running Windows 7 RC on my laptop it sometimes goes to sleep even when I am using it. For example, while playing a game the screen just goes black and Windows sleeps. That is very frustrating because I have to wake it up and see that the game I was playing is closed. This problem occurred many times and during several different games. Although not every game is affected by this. I am not sure it happens too when I run applications.
I pretty much turned sleep off in all the settings in the Windows Control Panel. It is only suppose to sleep when the battery has only 1% left but my battery is always charged when running Windows.
Maybe I should also mention that my battery is in a very poor condition. I use this battery since about little more than a year and it has run through 385 cycles with only 27% of health left.
I hope someone can help me with this because if I cannot even play games on Windows then there is no reason to keep my Boot Camp partition.
Thank you!

I have the same problem you both have, and I have not confirmed this with Apple, but I'm almost positive it's an over heating issue. When your MacBook Pro goes to sleep while you were gaming, hurry up and touch the left fan vent next to the built in keyboard. Are we cooking eggs here or what? I'm presuming as a failsafe, once the CPU/GPU hits a certain temperature, an auto sleep function is triggered to prevent the system from cooking itself. As a work around I bought a laptop fan, which keeps it a lot cooler and has dimmed down the automatic sleeping issue. I think the main issue is that Apple's Bootcamp drivers aren't supporting fan control, therefore the fans are staying at their normal speed, when they really should be maxing out their speed when you're gaming.
Hope this helps.

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