Windows hangs when game is minimized

babakahmadi

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Would appreciate hearing any ideas on what this could be or similar issues; applies to any game or scenario -- a direct x issue?

Machine DELL XPS 600
Windows XP SP2

repro:
1. Start BTS
2. Set resolution to 1600x1200; high def (restart as required)
3. Play game and save
4. use Alt-tab to minimize the game and return to Windows
5. when the screen saver attempts to start, the machine hangs: the display goes "off", meaning the machine is on, but there is no output to the monitor any longer; resetting the monitor, etc, does not help. Pressing key sequences to shutdown Windows does not work.

workaround: physically turn off the box. Ouch!

The fact that I ran Civ4 and Warlords continuiosly for months in this manner w/o any issues, together with the fact that the only newly installed app is BTS leads me to believe that BTS or some other util installed by it is causing the issue.

Would appreciate any help here

Tanx,
--Babak
 
Well, I don't have a solution, but last night I noticed a different problem with alt-tab minimizing that might be related to your problem. When I used alt-tab to minimize the game, my mouse pointer wouldn't move out of the upper left hand corner of my screen. If I hit alt-tab again, the game would come back and work normally. If I then completely exited the game, everything would work normally. I tried it several times, and while this doesn't always happen, it happens often enough that I wouldn't consider it an isolated incident.
 
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