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backtoback
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada1276 Posts
August 08 2010 18:17 GMT
#1
hey TL, Anyone here getting alttab issues that load too slow or sometimes make SC2 not respond anymore?? My os is windows 7 and everytime i watch a streamer play SC2, i see them alt tab with their other programs and the taskbar opened while SC2 is on the main focus? What function allows this so my alt tab won't completely minimize SC2??
Fruscainte
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4596 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-08 18:18:45
August 08 2010 18:18 GMT
#2
Set your video settings to (Windowed) Fullscreen

Nothing will change, except when you alt tab things go on top of the Starcraft 2 window instead of it minimizing and helps reduce lag when alt tabbing
Backpack
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1776 Posts
August 08 2010 18:20 GMT
#3
Fruscainte has it correct.

This can also be applied to many other games and programs if you are ever having this issue again.
"You people need to just generally care a lot less about everything." -Zatic
Chaoz
Profile Joined March 2010
United States507 Posts
August 08 2010 18:23 GMT
#4
The only problem I've had is that I can't open my windows. I can see the task bar, but nothing happens when I click the icons. No idea why that happens though.
Seltsam
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States343 Posts
August 08 2010 18:24 GMT
#5
My biggest problem is that when I hit the window key, it minimizes the game even though I HAVE checked off "disable windows key" in the options.
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KiF1rE
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States964 Posts
August 08 2010 18:26 GMT
#6
i made a support thread about this on the blizz forums as it had 0 issues in the beta min and maximizing... It was near instantaneous but now everyone is having slow and unresponsive issues or other issues.... Like if i minimize my hotkeys dont work which is on the standard... =/ all of it worked fine in the beta on the same system.
NadaSound
Profile Joined March 2010
United States227 Posts
August 08 2010 18:32 GMT
#7
On August 09 2010 03:26 KiF1rE wrote:
i made a support thread about this on the blizz forums as it had 0 issues in the beta min and maximizing... It was near instantaneous but now everyone is having slow and unresponsive issues or other issues.... Like if i minimize my hotkeys dont work which is on the standard... =/ all of it worked fine in the beta on the same system.


can you link that thread because I would like to show my concern? I had no problems burring the beta, but since release every time I get a call or need to make a call on skype to talk to my boys I have to just log out and close the game becuase it just freezes anyways when I minimize.
Kantutan
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1319 Posts
August 08 2010 18:44 GMT
#8
Yeah I had to switch from (Windowed) Fullscreen in beta to simply Fullscreen because it was too laggy to play on Windowed anymore :\ Also, if I alt-tab out on my laptop I can't get back into SC2 for whatever reason.
woolly
Profile Joined May 2010
United States56 Posts
August 08 2010 19:05 GMT
#9
On August 09 2010 03:18 Fruscainte wrote:
Set your video settings to (Windowed) Fullscreen

Nothing will change, except when you alt tab things go on top of the Starcraft 2 window instead of it minimizing and helps reduce lag when alt tabbing


That's not exactly true. When you go into windows mode, you no longer have the option of increasing the Gamma setting in game, which means you need to do this from within windows. But that was the only thing I noticed.
Argolis
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada211 Posts
August 08 2010 19:14 GMT
#10
I've heard that setting your window to windowed mode instead of fullscreen disables the use of SLI/Crossfire.
KiF1rE
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States964 Posts
August 08 2010 23:19 GMT
#11
On August 09 2010 03:32 NadaSound wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2010 03:26 KiF1rE wrote:
i made a support thread about this on the blizz forums as it had 0 issues in the beta min and maximizing... It was near instantaneous but now everyone is having slow and unresponsive issues or other issues.... Like if i minimize my hotkeys dont work which is on the standard... =/ all of it worked fine in the beta on the same system.


can you link that thread because I would like to show my concern? I had no problems burring the beta, but since release every time I get a call or need to make a call on skype to talk to my boys I have to just log out and close the game becuase it just freezes anyways when I minimize.


its not much but its like the only thread on there about it. i made it a while ago, i probably should update it but it just got buried as not many people seemed to care..

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/248107248


NadaSound
Profile Joined March 2010
United States227 Posts
August 08 2010 23:31 GMT
#12
On August 09 2010 08:19 KiF1rE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 09 2010 03:32 NadaSound wrote:
On August 09 2010 03:26 KiF1rE wrote:
i made a support thread about this on the blizz forums as it had 0 issues in the beta min and maximizing... It was near instantaneous but now everyone is having slow and unresponsive issues or other issues.... Like if i minimize my hotkeys dont work which is on the standard... =/ all of it worked fine in the beta on the same system.


can you link that thread because I would like to show my concern? I had no problems burring the beta, but since release every time I get a call or need to make a call on skype to talk to my boys I have to just log out and close the game becuase it just freezes anyways when I minimize.


its not much but its like the only thread on there about it. i made it a while ago, i probably should update it but it just got buried as not many people seemed to care..

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/248107248



Every one with this problem should make a post in the B-net forum.

Lets move the conversation over there and mybe get some offical attention.
Come on everybody!!!
Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6102 Posts
August 08 2010 23:49 GMT
#13
Putting it in windowed mode actually reduces your FPS.

Right now, everytime I alt-tab back into the game it takes about 30 seconds whereas in beta it was close to instant. Nothing in my computer has changed (also I also run the game in native resolution so that is not the problem.)

Please fix this problem.
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KiF1rE
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States964 Posts
August 09 2010 01:14 GMT
#14
On August 09 2010 08:31 NadaSound wrote:
Every one with this problem should make a post in the B-net forum.

Lets move the conversation over there and mybe get some offical attention.
Come on everybody!!!


thx for the support on bumping that thread up, maybe some people will actually care now that we have a decent following that actually understand that there is a problem of some sort =D
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