Starsector on handhelds - locks up after sleep?

Yo waddup guys, I have been playing starsector on a rog ally z1e and have recently switched to a GPD Win 5 and on both devices it seems that starsector will lock up every time I make the device sleep.

What I mean by this, is I can push the power button to out my device to sleep, then I can push it again to wake it up. I'll try to go back into starsector, which is still running, however it just brings up the game and I can't interact with it. Animations and sound still play but I can't get the game to be interactible again. Only way to fix it is to exit and restart.

Figured its a long shot but wanted to see if anyone has a fix for this. I am also launching it via steam, not sure if that's a factor. Before I even tried it on a handheld, people here on le reddit said that it worked great with handhelds and sleep/hibernate so I'm surprised by my experience.