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Twinsen
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Posted: 20th Mar 2008 22:52
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hey there people !!! I can Alt-Tab my game but when I switch back into the game, it crashes any idea why or what should I do ??? thanks

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TDK
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Posted: 20th Mar 2008 23:36
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Because it's DirectX - that's what normally happens. Not exactly sure what the remedy is with DBPro, but you could start with disabling the system keys.

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Paul08
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Posted: 20th Mar 2008 23:40
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don't want to tell you anything wrong but my 3d apps are working ok when i alt-tab, made in dbpro running windows xp.
Are you a vista user or..?

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Twinsen
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Posted: 20th Mar 2008 23:48
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nope, WinXP .. also TDK, when using Windows XP or any NT version, DISALBE SYSTEMKEYS does not work

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Posted: 21st Mar 2008 02:35
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Quote: "my 3d apps are working ok when i alt-tab"


Ah - maybe it's only full-screen apps that do that then. I remember most commercial DirectX games used to have problems like that a while back - and the same problem exists in DBC.

Maybe the problem exists only in certain screen modes?...

Quote: "when using Windows XP or any NT version, DISALBE SYSTEMKEYS does not work"


OK - didn't know that (been so long since I used it).

In that case the only thing I can suggest is that you try a different screen mode. If you aren't running it in a window, try that to see if it gets around the problem. Is there a full-screen windowed mode as well as exclusive mode?

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Twinsen
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Posted: 21st Mar 2008 07:08
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yes it is also, can you please tell me what's the main difference between Exclusive and Windowed Fullscreen ??? I mean what is gonna happen with my game in both cases and which is the best choice and for what purposes ? please help me out TDK, as you seem to know best around here ...

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Twinsen
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Posted: 21st Mar 2008 14:18
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windowsKiller or TDK: can you tell me why, if I scale DOWN an image using SCALE IMAGE, I see some weird vertical/horizontal lines ... like some cubes ... it's like the stretching method scales the image very poorly ... is this normal ??? thanks fellas

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Twinsen
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Posted: 21st Mar 2008 19:39
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why ??? isn't that the best quality ???

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Twinsen
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Posted: 21st Mar 2008 20:46
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but filtered/mip-mapped images aren't used for textures only ??? My image is a background image so I can't afford to have a blurry image transformed into mip-maps ...

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Twinsen
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 12:01
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I want to scale it because my game has different resolution modes ... so the image being 1280 x 960 has to be scaled down for 640 x 480 ( for example )

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Twinsen
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 12:14
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ah ... well I didn't want to have different sprites due to memory size

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 12:59
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sorry for the mislead ... by "memory" I meant filesize, not actual memory ... so I don't want my game to have 4x size .... thought I could find a way to reduce the size of the images

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Posted: 22nd Mar 2008 14:32
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well JPEG sucks cause of quality and compression I use PNG anyways which is way smaller I'll see what can be done

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