Trying to dual box on one machine - something weird here.
By
beyeajus,
Posted on: 2010-04-03 20:58 in Player Questions
Can't help you with your question, other than the obligatory 'you might be better off posting it in the Tech section'. But I will say that I quite happily dual box CoH windowed, you could perhaps try doing that until you get things worked out.
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
I used to have this problem back in the day, but it seems to have fixed itself just as randomly as it appeared.
I use windowed mode and click on one of the tabs so only one window gets minimised and then maximesd. It works quite well except every now and again the toon I switch to starts autorunning and I have to right click on the tab to stop it.
I have one more mayhem to get for the accolade on my current favourite mm but to do it I have to get a stalker 3 more levels. sigh.
How does one set it to windowed mode guys? I would like to try this.
Ingame:
Menu -> Options -> Video settings
Quote:
For about the last week or so, I was having what may be a related problem. I usually use the start menu button to get back to the desktop, but it's not been really working. It worked, but it would flicker and shift and I couldn't really use it to check my browser or anything but the game.|
ShadowsBetween is getting half measures: I've recently been trying to finish off some of the Mayhem badges on a few of my characters (it's the only Accolade I actively try to get, since it's relatively easy and has a nice bonus.) However, I've been having a problem that I don't remember seeing before. When I attempt to use Alt+Tab to switch from one instance of the game to the other, it doesn't always work. In fact, it most often doesn't work at all. Previously, pressing Alt+Tab once was sufficient to switch. Now, sometimes it will work. Most times it will not. If hold the Alt key and press Tab several times, sometimes I can get it to switch. Again, most of the time all that happens is the screen flashes black for a split second, and resumes running whichever client I started on. I am running Win XP SP3. I do not have any other weird programs running - just a firewall (since broadband connection + no firewall = infested computer.) The only other thing of note is that I have the game shortcut set up with the "maxinactivefps 5" command, to reduce the system overhead of having two copies of the game running at once. It's not essential that I get this going, but it would be useful, and any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm not quite sure when this might have started happening, but the only system changes I've made recently were to install the latest Windows updates. (Not that Microsoft would ever introduce changes that break older versions of the OS. That would be entirely unprecedented.) |
Then I discovered that ATI had put out an upgrade for my card in February and I installed that. Cleared it right up. Maybe you just need to update your driver?
Dec out.
all you have to do, if you don't run in windowed mode, is press the windows button. works every time.
At Kiken's suggestion, I have reposted this question in the Tech forum. I'd really prefer to find a solution that works with fullscreen though - I don't like windowed mode for a number of reasons. As for graphics card and driver, I've got an NVidea GTS 250 with the 196.21 drivers, which seem to be fairly stable for everything I'm currently running. Several of the recent NVidia driver releases have had what could kindly be described as serious issues, so I don't intend to update the video drivers unless it's absolutely necessary.
Ooo, yeah, I just set up a work computer a couple of weeks ago with Nvidia and upgrading the drivers really bollixed it up. Ah, well, just a thought.
Dec out.
I've recently been trying to finish off some of the Mayhem badges on a few of my characters (it's the only Accolade I actively try to get, since it's relatively easy and has a nice bonus.) However, I've been having a problem that I don't remember seeing before. When I attempt to use Alt+Tab to switch from one instance of the game to the other, it doesn't always work. In fact, it most often doesn't work at all.
Previously, pressing Alt+Tab once was sufficient to switch. Now, sometimes it will work. Most times it will not. If hold the Alt key and press Tab several times, sometimes I can get it to switch. Again, most of the time all that happens is the screen flashes black for a split second, and resumes running whichever client I started on.
I am running Win XP SP3. I do not have any other weird programs running - just a firewall (since broadband connection + no firewall = infested computer.) The only other thing of note is that I have the game shortcut set up with the "maxinactivefps 5" command, to reduce the system overhead of having two copies of the game running at once.
It's not essential that I get this going, but it would be useful, and any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm not quite sure when this might have started happening, but the only system changes I've made recently were to install the latest Windows updates. (Not that Microsoft would ever introduce changes that break older versions of the OS. That would be entirely unprecedented.)