Alt Tabbing twice to switch between CoH
By
FryGuy,
Posted on: 2010-07-15 10:07 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
When it comes to Alt+Tab, Win7 Aero is usually the culprit. It tends to disable itself, especially if you have a custom desktop theme. (I know this is the issue when Alt+Tabbing stops working altogether.)
'Personalize' your desktop and switch to a standard theme and see if that helps. You might also have to rt-click in the Task Bar and re-enable Aero.
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You can generally work around this by going into the CoH installation directory (C:\Program Files\City of Heroes on 32bit Windows, C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes on 64bit Windows), right clicking on cityofheroes.exe (the extension might be hidden) -> Properties -> Compatibility -> click Change settings for all users -> select Disable desktop composition -> OK to all the dialogs.|
Originally Posted by KellionBane
Is there a windows setting interfering with this?
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This worked for the people in the last thread about this issue, so it'll likely work for you, without making any system-wide changes.
(I'd personally just recommend switching to Windowed mode instead)
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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I'm running a GeForce 285 with the latest NVidia drivers and I see the same issue with a second monitor. If I click on the Firefox running on the secondary monitor, then click back to the game, the screen doesn't update until I alt-tab into the game again. The sound comes back when I click on the game, but no video updates until alt-tabbing again. I'm running full-screen. Would prefer not running windowed mode.
I already have "Desktop composition" disabled on CoH. And Aero gets turned off when the game starts, and that hasn't fixed my issue.
I'm running windows 7 and I seem to have a problem with alt tabbing. I will alt tab out of the game running at full screen and then have to alt tab into the game then out, then back in to get the game to properly update the monitor.
For example, I switch to the forums, then alt tab back into game and my display will just show a still image of my last screen in game, even though its updating in the background with whatever I'm clicking on, or moving about, as if the game was running properly. The other bit about this screen is, there's a windows start bar at the bottom of the screen completely blacked out. Then if I alt tab back out, to the forums, and then back to the game, the game will finally run properly, and show itself on screen. Also clicking on the minimized game bar on the start bar doesn't work most of the time.
Is there a windows setting interfering with this? Or is it an nvidia issue?