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Old November 24th, 2006, 05:15 PM

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Default Re: A couple of simple ways to make it more friend

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alexti said:
(1) That's weird. I can Alt-Tab back and forth while the turn calculation is being performed without any problem. It sounds more like something in OS scheduler being borked. User-mode application isn't even supposed to be able to totally monopolize computer resources.
It's not the OS scheduler--the machine is behaving fine and there is plenty of CPU power available (this is a hyperthread machine, Dominions can only monopolize it's processor, not the whole box.)

You can freely alt-tab back and forth while it's your turn. You can pretty freely alt-tab back and forth during battle resolution. What you can't do is alt-tab back and forth during AI calculation. I'm thinking that perhaps it is only checking the keyboard when it displays a message.

When you do the Alt-Tab Windows sees it fine and switches the task. However, Dominions still has the screen and the mouse is still boxed in. Thus you get the taskbar and any menu you can launch from it--but not any window you might open.
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