Alt-Tab Woes

[Jules]

I guess it is know by most that using Alt-Tab in RA2 often causes glitches. This has become an even bigger pain for me because I use dual monitors and want to be able to scroll through videos, etc. without crashing or glitching the game.
Today it was causing me a lot of grief while trying to play through Hamachi.

Anyone been able to avoid this?
Should I play Full Screen or Windowed mode?
Also, I am on vista if that makes a difference.

[Sparkey98]

you're back!
 
 
I'd just go full screen
 
 
I have vista to.

[Stagfish]

me, lloopp and G.K have been chatting to him on hamachi :P

[G.K.]

G.K

Who? :P

[Squirrel_Monkey]

G.K.

Who? :P

FIXED

[somestrangeguy]

Yes I have had some kind of problems with Alt tabbing out of the game, mainly that the axlels run free and wont stop ever unless you press the Pause key on your keyboard. Makes bot building hard since you cant attach anything anywhere else exept baseplate. Easiest fix is to restart game and not alt tab out.

[JoeBlo]

it tends to be a little more "stable" if your in window mode but none the less exiting will save headaches (as will a second computer :P)

[Sage]

Use windowed mode for sure, and just use the Start Menu button to get out of the game. Works perfectly.

[Clickbeetle]

Yes I have had some kind of problems with Alt tabbing out of the game, mainly that the axlels run free and wont stop ever unless you press the Pause key on your keyboard. Makes bot building hard since you cant attach anything anywhere else exept baseplate. Easiest fix is to restart game and not alt tab out.

Going into the test garage and back works too.  Fixes the restless axle problem.

[Madiaba]

^^Easiest fix.^^
Also watch out for 'Imoport"-ing bots after returning to the game.. it will kill you sometimes ....
Garage returns game to normal in all aspects.

[kcdowdy]

'Imoport"-ing

Wouldn't that just be, Un-importing? Aka, Exporting? :P

[Trovaner]

For simplicity, I always use ALT-Tab when I switching between RA2 and other programs. I don't really think about it anymore (its become a habit) but whenever it doesn't let me attach something, I click the Pause button and switch sections (eventually going into the Practice Arena or returning to the modifications tab (while it is still paused)).

^^Easiest fix.^^
Also watch out for 'Imoport"-ing bots after returning to the game.. it will kill you sometimes ....

I never really thought about it but I guess that explains why I get so many error messages when I'm import bots.

[Condor33]

Whenever I alt-tab or minimize the program, it stops letting me attach anything. The component flashes for a single frame like it will attach but then goes back to floaty moving the part around mode. Never had those other problems...