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I heard that Alt Tabbing out of your game too much will eventually make things screwy... Mostly in the Mission Editor. I used to be able to Alt+ Tab fine out of the game, but nowadays I press Alt Tab, but the screen does not dissapear, so I gotta click like crazy on the bottom part of my screen, blindly to open up OFP again, and then try Alt Tabbing again.

It would be great if the mission editor had a little "Minus" button at the top, or even a "Maximize Minimize" button

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It's (almost) impossible to use alt+tab for me. I have to repeat the command like crazy for serveral minutes to get out of ofp... I get pretty much the same effect as you describe. But I have never experienced anything "screwy" in the mission editor.

I like the idea of having Maximize and Minimize buttons, but IMO it would be better if BIS just fixed this alt+tab issue.

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ihave the same problem! crazy_o.gif but i have an restart windows icon on the screen(bottom,right) and since , no probs! tounge_o.gif : but alt tabing its not the soluttion! i´m for an minus button!

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Alt tab works surprisingly well here compared to most games, some games it takes forever like americas army or other demanding Unreal based games, in OFP it always worked smoothly for me smile_o.gif .

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What problems with ALT+TAB are you talking about?

I`ve played Flashpoint on 4 computers over the years, and I never had a problem with ALT+TAB wich I use very often when I test selfmade missions. Currently I run OFP under Win2K and again it`s working perfect. When I press ALT+TAB it takes a few seconds and I`m back on the desctop with an minimized OFP, and it`s no problem to go back to OFP. rock.gif

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My personal experience is that the ALT+TAB itself is just working fine. You can have problems with it when you are using a via northbridge and an ati videocard. That causes tthe game to crash or artifacts/crazy green screens.

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I used to have Alt-Tab bug on my old Gateway computer that was:

700 Mhz PIII

192 MB RAM

32 MB Videocard

Now I upgraded to a dell (3 Ghz P4, 1 GB RAM, 128 MB Videocard) and I can Alt-Tab smoothly most of the time.

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First I accumulated heaps of addons and missions

ALT-TAB became increasingly difficult

then I upgraded from 512 Mb to 1024 Mb

and ALT-Tabbing is very fluent again biggrin_o.gif

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Solution (at least for me) to your alt-tab problems. Set the ofp resolution (or vise versa) different than the desktop resolution AND make sure the refresh rate is different from desktop to OFP. Works everytime now for me.

Try the refresh rate first. That may work on its own.

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Solution (at least for me) to your alt-tab problems. Set the ofp resolution (or vise versa) different than the desktop resolution AND make sure the refresh rate is different from desktop to OFP. Works everytime now for me.

Try the refresh rate first. That may work on its own.

That could work but IMO it's a stupid way to fix it.

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alt & tab working here and i dont wanna loose it!

hate games with disabled alt tabbing, like boiling point, everytime an icq window pops up during gameplay im f****d mad_o.gif

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Suggestions for improving further games need to go into the OFP2 Suggestions forum. Most suggestions here in this forum may not make it into ArAs due to development stages, keeping all suggestions in the suggestion forum will help reduce confusion and any extra double posting of ideas.

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How about searching? I guess this topic has been fixed multiple times.

It's totally enough to set different refresh rates on desktop and OFP (different res. are not needed then), so f.i. desktop on 75 and OFP on 80Hz or whatever. Works fine, since I did this I never got the alt-tab problem again, and I had it all the time before.

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A minimise button in editor only would be good idea.

If you have desktop res and refresh rate set to same, OFP or Windows has trouble switching between them (I guess it needs the change in settings to prod it to the desktop)

I used to have problems (Mainly while hosting MP games) with when I alt-tabed, and clicked the OFP start-menu thing to bring the game back up, it'd CTD. But that got solved cleaning out addon folder, and made better (Couldn't really alttab during game) with more RAM.

Games like Boiling Point disable alt-tabbing because they use so much resources, alttabing would kill either the main PC if you try and load more stuff, or the game, trying to put it back into normal game-play.

Erm, kinda went of a bit there tounge_o.gif

OFP2 should, and almost certainly will inlcude some kinda of alt-tab thingy, either kepping Alt-Tab shortcut, or minimize function. If not, they better include a very good text-editor in mission, for editing scripts, among other stuff tounge_o.gif

- Ben

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I can alt tab without a problem, but if I do it very often, I get a windows error and I have to close ofp.

Also, if I do it a lot, sometimes I get artifacts in game.

It happened rarely though, but there is the possibility.

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I think this problem is directly related to the power and memory capacity of the pc. Also, if you are using Win9x, forget it.

--Ben

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I think this problem is directly related to the power and memory capacity of the pc. Also, if you are using Win9x, forget it.

--Ben

My CPU is 3.80Ghz and my Ram is 1024Mb. Im running WindowsXP Pro. And I still cant use alt+tab. So IMHO you're wrong.

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Just change the refresh rate in your game to something different to that your desktop uses to be able to ALT+Tab normally again.

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Just change the refresh rate in your game to something different to that your desktop uses to be able to ALT+Tab normally again.

I know. But that is a stupid way to fix it. If it will be like that in ArAs I know lots of people are going to get pissed at BIS.

Even BF2 is free from this problem. wink_o.gif

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I know. But that is a stupid way to fix it.

No. It's a possible way, so there is no reason not to go it, 5Hz difference of your refresh rate won't crash your computer.

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I know. But that is a stupid way to fix it.

No. It's a possible way, so there is no reason not to go it, 5Hz difference of your refresh rate won't crash your computer.

I already run windows in 75hz and ofp in 85hz inorder to get rid of this issue. But this should get fixed for aras/ofp2. Why not fix it so that you can run both aras/ofp2 and windows at the same refresh rate? That's the best solution imo.

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Yea all the sudden my windows mouse started appearing in game and i couldnt alt tab out anymore. I fixed it though. Just make sure that your in game resolution is diffrent than your desktop resolution. I dont know why but it fixes it yay.gif  yay.gif  yay.gif  teeth.gif  nener.gif  pistols.gif  moon.gif  eyeheart.gif  thumbs-up.gif edit sorry for the smilie rampage i couldnt help myself. tounge2.gif

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Just change the refresh rate in your game to something different to that your desktop uses to be able to ALT+Tab normally again.

I know. But that is a stupid way to fix it. If it will be like that in ArAs I know lots of people are going to get pissed at BIS.

Even BF2 is free from this problem.  wink_o.gif

The BF2 engine wasn't developed 4 years ago...

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Just change the refresh rate in your game to something different to that your desktop uses to be able to ALT+Tab normally again.

I know. But that is a stupid way to fix it. If it will be like that in ArAs I know lots of people are going to get pissed at BIS.

Even BF2 is free from this problem. wink_o.gif

The BF2 engine wasn't developed 4 years ago...

Armed Assault will be relased in 2005 & Operation Flashpoint 2 will be released in 2006 or later. I didnt talk about Operation Flashpoint 1. This is the OFP2 - SUGGESTIONS part of the forum.

Edit: This thread is also found in the Armed Assault section.

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But you are aware thats the reason there is the alt-tab "bug" in not just OFP but other DX8 based games?

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