Windows and Screensavers

[Marko]

Will we be able to ALT-TAB out of CM, screw around in Windows, and then go back to the game without it crashing or freezing? Some Direct3D games don't allow this which I find annoying.

Also, sometimes Direct3D games have incompatibility problems with the Windows screensaver starting up, and so ask you to switch off the screensaver. This to me is lazy programming because it is like 3 lines of code for the program to automatically detect the screensaver and not allow it to run! Will CM do this if it does have incompatibility problems with the screensaver?

[Guest Big Time Software]

>Will we be able to ALT-TAB out of CM, screw around in Windows, and then go

>back to the game without it crashing or freezing?

Yes.

>Also, sometimes Direct3D games have incompatibility problems with the

>Windows screensaver starting up, and so ask you to switch off the

>screensaver. This to me is lazy programming because it is like 3 lines of

>code for the program to automatically detect the screensaver and not allow

>it to run! Will CM do this if it does have incompatibility problems with

>the screensaver?

We're not aware of this being an issue, but we'll look into it.

[Marko]

I have a feeling that if the ALT-TABing is not a problem, then neither will the screensaver be a problem. One cool thing that some games do is wait for the screensaver message, swallow it, but then play a non-interactive demo of the game. Something like those DOOM demos. Just an idea.