Alt+tab to Desktop constantly ...

dugwyler · Post by **dugwyler** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:25 pm

When playing Allegiance, I alt+tabbed to another window. Big mistake. Now whenever I try to play, generally clicking in game on any kind of button causes Allegiance to lose focus to the Desktop (effectively minimizing the game).

Often I'll see at the top of the window the standard Windows icons: minimize, make into a window, close. I can hit the "make into a window" button and these icons disappear.

I've tried running the game in Windowed mode w/ 16-bit color. The first time, it worked for a moment -- started in windowed mode, but then it quickly jumped into fullscreen, and then worked as before. I quit out and tried to run in windowed mode again, but it doesn't even start windowed anymore (or, it looks like it might be trying, but it quickly goes to fullscreen).

I'm just starting to get into this game. Seems very cool. I would hate to have to stop playing it at this point where it's still so new and interesting. Any help you can provide is most appreciated.

Windows Version (and Service Packs): XP
Processor Speed: One of those exciting variable laptop processors
RAM: 256
Video Card (Make and Model#): Onboard
Sound Card (Make and Model#): Onboard
Connection Type (Dialup, Cable, DSL, other): Cable
Installed Mods: None

ImmortalZ · Post by **ImmortalZ** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:45 pm

One question : Are you trying to get it running in windowed mode of fullscreen mode?

Post by **pkk** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:51 pm

dugwyler wrote:QUOTE (dugwyler @ Mar 23 2007, 03:25 PM) Often I'll see at the top of the window the standard Windows icons: minimize, make into a window, close. I can hit the "make into a window" button and these icons disappear.

You should use a higher desktop resolution than 800x600? /huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" />

Alleg in windowed mode is has a window size of 806x625 (in lobby)...

Paradigm2 · Post by **Paradigm2** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:00 pm

Every time i've heard of this problem its been the colors.

When it switches back to full screen mode and the resizing options disappear, do your color settings change back as well?

dugwyler · Post by **dugwyler** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:41 pm

QUOTE Are you trying to get it running in windowed mode of fullscreen mode?[/quote]
I would prefer fullscreen. I've just been trying windowed mode because I thought that as a window it wouldn't lose focus every time I clicked. Instead it just reverts to fullscreen.

pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Mar 23 2007, 06:51 AM) You should use a higher desktop resolution than 800x600?

I'm presently using 1280x800.

Strangely, it looks like it now works in windowed mode.

However, it would be a pain to have to always switch my color settings every time I want to play.

Strangely, when it flashes back to the desktop, it looks like Allegiance itself doesn't lose focus (in the taskbar, it's the "selected"/darkened item) ... yet it's still minimizing for some reason.

I wished all to hell I hadn't ever tried to alt+tab. Being originally an MS app you'd think it would be Win-OS friendly ...

dugwyler · Post by **dugwyler** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:07 pm

Still no clues? Is there anyone else who has experienced this problem before? It's stayed between reboots. I'm guessing it's something about how XP is storing the status of the window and how it should be displayed.

ImmortalZ · Post by **ImmortalZ** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:25 pm

You could try a reinstall. I'm kinda stumped. First time I've encountered this.

Bunnywabbit · Post by **Bunnywabbit** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:59 pm

I experienced something similar the other day. The culprit in my case turned out to be an Adobe Photoshop saving dialog that was open. It went away when i closed that dialog.

Hope that helps in tracking this down.

dugwyler · Post by **dugwyler** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:11 pm

ImmortalZ wrote:QUOTE (ImmortalZ @ Mar 25 2007, 09:25 AM) You could try a reinstall. I'm kinda stumped. First time I've encountered this.

Fortunately the download isn't too long. I'll give this a shot. Hopefully the information about the window isn't stored in a registry key that won't be deleted by an uninstall.

ogorass · Post by **ogorass** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:59 pm

Have you got TweakUI or something similar installed with 'Give focus on mouse hover' enabled? If so try disabling it or meddling with some adv settings to disable that function for full-screen modes. (That did it for me at least).