Possibility to tab between games |
| Project: | Space Empires V |
| Version: | 1.44 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | bjonke |
| Status: | active |
Description
Problem: Cant tab between my online 3D game and Space empire because it can't draw to the canvas in game once you switch over to the other game/3d application. I would see this as a semi-bug due to the fact that once you alt-tab from Space Empire you get a exception and need to close it down.
Why not a bug: I find it not bug worthy due to the fact that if you stay to playing one game at a time you will probably never reach this problem.
Why Implement:You should implement this feature because I dont know how many games/application causes
this problem with Space Empire and the game shouldn't have to be closed down unless you want it to even if you alt-tab.
/bjonke Game developer
Updates
Considering that video card memory is not virtualized in XP, and Vista's ability to do so only applies for DX10 AFAIK, I don't think being able to arbitrarily run multiple big 3d games at once is a realistic desire.
