Brightness and Audio not working before sleep.

I've been posting way too often here lol.

Brightness and Audio have been behaving weirdly for some reason.

The brightness is stuck to 50% brightness. The slider shows up but I can't adjust it. After putting the laptop to sleep for 10 seconds or so, it works right away.

Same with audio, however it's a little different. Audio is sounds cracky and sounds extremely dim even at max volume. However, after putting the device to sleep, the audio too works without a hitch. (I installed codec commander but I'm not sure it did anything. It's still in my kexts folder though)

Laptop Specs:

• Intel i5-4200U
• Intel HD 4400
• Realtek ALC 233/ALC3236
• GT 740M (disabled with -wegnoegpu)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I hope I'm not annoying anybody by constantly asking these questions... Thanks in advance !