EPTIt used to be fine on Beta, where it only took a second max. Now everytime I alt tab to window, I need to wait good old 15 seconds staring at the black screen.
Anyone else has this problem? And has anyone found the cause or solution?
Slow Alt-Tabbing Speed (Back to SC2)
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furymonkey
New Zealand1587 Posts
It used to be fine on Beta, where it only took a second max. Now everytime I alt tab to window, I need to wait good old 15 seconds staring at the black screen. Anyone else has this problem? And has anyone found the cause or solution? | ||
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Redx
Netherlands77 Posts
 Hope that works! | ||
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StayPhrosty
Canada406 Posts
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furymonkey
New Zealand1587 Posts
I also noticed if you start the application fresh, you can alt tab just fine. But once you entered a game, it will take ages to alt tab. My grahpics setting are set to Ultra at the moment, maybe I will lower it to test it, but as stated before, Beta runs just fine for me. | ||
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AnodyneSea
Jamaica757 Posts
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opticalza
New Zealand188 Posts
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vek
Australia936 Posts
 Seems like something they could fix though because I never had issues in the beta. | ||
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RawrAnOcean
United States359 Posts
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disco
Netherlands1667 Posts
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ALPINA
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buycheese
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EppE
United States221 Posts
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hunter3
United States155 Posts
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Takkara
United States2503 Posts
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Redx
Netherlands77 Posts
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snowbird
Germany2044 Posts
With a fresh start of the game alt-tab works instantly, but after some time it takes about 15 seconds. Settings are on ultra, ingame resolution = desktop resolution. Set to fullscreen (not windowed). It's pretty annoying. | ||
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Kegsta
Australia17 Posts
I was fine during the beta also. | ||
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snowbird
Germany2044 Posts
Win7 Pro x64. Hopefully there'll be a fix soon. | ||
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ALPINA
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GoDannY
Germany442 Posts
On July 28 2010 18:19 Alpina wrote: Me too ATI HD4890 with this problem. same, same but not that big of deal, I tend not to tab out in game. | ||
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Daavee
Germany11 Posts
This should solve tabbing problems as mentioned above. | ||
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Juvator
Netherlands199 Posts
this makes no sense.. all the setting are the same as they were during beta, I got a fast computer, 5850hd OC`ed, i7 920 OCed to 3,5ghz, 6gigs triple channel ddr 3 ram.. my screen res is the same as the game res 1920x1200. do you guys think this will be fixed ? I will turn it on windowed mode for now.. but whats the difference between that and full screen then ?? it must be in some way less then normal full screen right ? I just wanna get everything out of the game that I can so having to degrade because some bad coding or whatever by blizzard is not cool at all. | ||
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Vlad.
Netherlands23 Posts
On July 28 2010 18:41 Daavee wrote: Switch in the Graphic options from "Fullscreen" to "Windowed Mode (Fullscreen)". This should solve tabbing problems as mentioned above. This! People do not really seem to read this thread, it has been mentioned several times already :S .Alt-tabbing is nearly instantaneous when using Windows (Fullscreen). Edit: @Juvator: Windowed (Fullscreen) provides the exact same gaming experience as Fullscreen. | ||
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Juvator
Netherlands199 Posts
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ClanOverdosed
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
EDIT: Window Max is NOT the same as fullscreen. It'll give you the freedom of tabbing, at the cost of performance. | ||
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eNtitY~
United States1293 Posts
I don't like using windowed fullscreen | ||
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Bob300
United States505 Posts
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Marradron
Netherlands1586 Posts
On July 31 2010 04:26 SONE wrote: When i had my 4870 playing COD4 awhile back and other applications, I noticed the alt-tabbing back in was really slow too. Right now I'm with Nvidia and I have no problems, but seems kind of unfortunate that ATI still has this problem with some users EDIT: Window Max is NOT the same as fullscreen. It'll give you the freedom of tabbing, at the cost of performance. well for those with overpowered cards like dual ati raedon 5850 preformence isn't mutch of an issue. | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
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Marradron
Netherlands1586 Posts
On July 31 2010 06:16 SONE wrote: I didn't say it was, I was saying that the statement : "Windowed (Fullscreen) provides the exact same gaming experience as Fullscreen." is not true. There is a performance hit, it is not the same at all. Everything is the same, your frame rate might drop a little bit. The difrence however between 60 and 55 doesnt matter mutch anyways. For me it didnt since it was capped at 60 anyways. | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
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Inkarnate
Canada840 Posts
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Marradron
Netherlands1586 Posts
On July 31 2010 06:24 Inkarnate wrote: SONE is correct Marradron. I am not the one who claimed it was the same. I'm just saying who cares edit: if you're referring to my last point. GRAPYICLY it is the same as in colors, contrast and such. | ||
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SONE
Canada839 Posts
Whatever though, if you can survive the hit, which varies on different machines, then why not. You still shouldn't have to resort to playing in this mode and taking a hit on performance especially if your computer is more than capable to run SC2 on the highest settings, and cannot alt tab in fashion. | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
On July 27 2010 19:27 furymonkey wrote: Anyone noticed the slow alt tabness with StarCraft 2 Retail? It takes me good old 15 seconds on a fast performance PC. It used to be fine on Beta, where it only took a second max. Now everytime I alt tab to window, I need to wait good old 15 seconds staring at the black screen. Anyone else has this problem? And has anyone found the cause or solution? I had this problem. I dont anymore. My desktop now has the same resolution as sc2 and alt tab is a breeze. One time when I exited sc2 my resolution was changed to the same as sc2 and I never bothered to change it back. | ||
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Psychopomp
United States237 Posts
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On July 28 2010 18:41 Daavee wrote: Switch in the Graphic options from "Fullscreen" to "Windowed Mode (Fullscreen)". This should solve tabbing problems as mentioned above. +1 really the fullscreen "windowed" mode is amazing. i can read TL while obsing , while waiting for the rocks to die in marine arena etc etc without any lag,delay or problems. best "window" mode ever :D | ||
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Noxie
United States2227 Posts
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Mobius
Canada1268 Posts
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Mobius
Canada1268 Posts
On July 31 2010 12:40 Mobius wrote: ya same, was fine in beta.. horrible to msn/sc2 now.. | ||
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Rkie
United States1278 Posts
On July 28 2010 18:41 Daavee wrote: Switch in the Graphic options from "Fullscreen" to "Windowed Mode (Fullscreen)". This should solve tabbing problems as mentioned above. do this. | ||
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Pebble
Germany326 Posts
Thanks guys | ||
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
It's like your desktop is SC2 | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
works great 4 me | ||
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Angra
United States2652 Posts
On a similar subject though, it seems like retail SC2 is really stressing my computer way more than beta was. Not sure exactly why. | ||
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Zed03
Canada112 Posts
On July 31 2010 06:22 Marradron wrote: Everything is the same, your frame rate might drop a little bit. The difrence however between 60 and 55 doesnt matter mutch anyways. For me it didnt since it was capped at 60 anyways. Those who have crossfire or sli suffer an insane performance hit, as window mode does not support sli or crossfire. | ||
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7hink
Netherlands10 Posts
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GreggSauce
United States566 Posts
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Nub4ever
Canada1981 Posts
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Usurper
Macedonia283 Posts
On August 29 2010 08:46 GreggSauce wrote: 10.8 came out for ATI and it fixed my problem completely Confirming this. To all those who are still not aware about the recent driver update - it's up and it's surely working for my HD 5850. ALT + TABing in takes only 1-5 secs max, now. Cheers! | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
On August 30 2010 13:08 Usurper wrote: Confirming this. To all those who are still not aware about the recent driver update - it's up and it's surely working for my HD 5850. ALT + TABing in takes only 1-5 secs max, now. Cheers! WHAT? I've ran two or more versions past 10.8, like 10.1 and 11.1 and they didn't fix the problem, so I dont' see how 10.8 does. | ||
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JhecC
Philippines2 Posts
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MrTortoise
1388 Posts
windowed mode does work but i hate it. Its really not too much to ask to be able to alt tab. | ||
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Greek820
Canada210 Posts
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7th-Real
Australia93 Posts
Changing to windowed fullscreen will 'solve' the issue but it doesn't actually fix anything. There is an issue with ATI card drivers that is causing a huge delay on changing resolutions, Find some old drivers and fix the issue. | ||
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