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Stragne problem when minimizing LFS
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Stragne problem when minimizing LFS
Hi there, sorry for making another complain, but I after I have upgraded on S version, I sometimes get folowing issue:

When I try to minimize LFS by ALT+TAB, sometimes(1 out of 10 cases) I get a black screen with some color stripes on it. When I press ALT+TAB again, LFS appears and look normally. But no way, if I minimize LFS again or if I exit it, same black screen with some stripes is all what I can see. The only solution is to restart goputer by ALT+ and ALT+V.

I have never had this problem, I have nothing overclocked ATM, I have tried it on 84.20 and 84.43 beta drivers - no change. Updating to patch T also didnt help.

My sys. specs: P4E 3,2GHz, 1GB DDR2 RAM 3-3-3-10 timing, GF6600GT PCI-E, Asus P5GDC Pro, WinXP Pro SP2. System is running like a dream otherwise, didnt have a crash for a long time.
Bad news - it happened again. Now when ICQ tried to send LFS to the tray because of recieved message. After minimizing I got only corrupted image of something..... now Im running on T3. I cant take a screenshot of it, because I cannot control computer at all when it happens - i just see nothing.... Im 99,5% sure it is not my PC issue, never happened on any previous version of LFS.
ok just some advice here, i dunno if its true or not but lfs isnt supposed to be minimised like that, you are supposed to use shift-f4.
edit: quoting from README.txt
Switching to other programs :
-----------------------------
The ALT-TAB key press is not recommended during a multiplayer game
as after ALT-TAB the game is never called by the operating system
and cannot maintain its connections with the other computers.
Instead, please use the quick key SHIFT-F4 to temporarily run the
game in a window.

SHIFT-F4 - toggle between window / full screen
Hm, OK... youre right of course, but when something happens(ICQ message, error box from some process), there is no chance on "windowing"....
i never seen icq but i use msn and sometimes there are messges and stuff but when im on fulscreen nothing shows up, can maybe tell by a temp slowdown in fps, my advice is try to turn off those alerts, either that or dont run anything on the background as itll be consuming cpu cycles anyway.either way those windows should not steal focus from lfs, maybe somekind of option for that?
Quote from Barroso :
edit: quoting from README.txt
Switching to other programs :
-----------------------------
The ALT-TAB key press is not recommended during a multiplayer game
SHIFT-F4 - toggle between window / full screen

It says that ALT-Tabbing isnt good when playing online, but this has nothing to do with multiplayer. It can happen in LFS menu.......

Well, OK, I am going to stop talking about this weird problem - there are some more serious probs with LFS....

Stragne problem when minimizing LFS
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