Game processing stops when minimized |
| Project: | Space Empires V |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
The game apparently stops all initial processing when it is minimized. I can confirm this at least with game setup (player placement, etc) - I suspect it does the same for all other in-game processing. This seems like a bug to me, since in the later game, when turns will take significant time, players will minimize it to allow multitasking (and at other times as well).
Thanks!
aughck, I feel strongly the
aughck, I feel strongly the other way starhunter,
I would rather be able to do other things while it's prosessing, IRC chat, check email, check a forum... and have se5 prossess while I do something usefull, instead of looking at a blank screen with a blue bar.
even if it's not prossessing as fast is fine.
I detest doing nothing.
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an se5a is a ww1 fighter, it is also a car.
Process when minimized
It definately should process when minimized... I mean it already keeps playing the music when it is minimized so...
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Re: Game processing stops when minimized
Maybe if you don't play in windowed mode but just alt-tab out. I process a lot of my PBEM turns while I'm doing something else. Most are done in like twenty minutes, though one of them took like four hours.
Re: Game processing stops when minimized
Note that the game does process turns when minimized now. Back when this thread was originally created it did not.
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Re: Game processing stops when minimized
How do I keep coming into these old threads without noticing? Thanks Kwok.
Computer Resources
Considering the computer resources that turn processing can take, I have no problem with it pausing you minimize it.
Plus this may be more of a windows issue then it is the games.
(not 100% sure about that tho.)