Armchair Athlet Posted April 16, 2002 Posted April 16, 2002 I bought a GeForce 4 and I can no longer minimize the game at all. I used to be able to ALT + TAB to an AOL Instant Messenger window while in the game, even though my monitor retained the different resolution and brightness from my desktop. Now I cannot use CTRL + ESC or ALT + TAB at all apparantly. Is this just not really possible or is there something I can do?
Armchair Athlet Posted April 16, 2002 Author Posted April 16, 2002 Oh yea, system specs if this helps. Pentium III 800mhz 384MB RAM (PC-100 or 133 i think...) GeForce4 MX-420 PCI Windows ME Not the best, but runs great
RiseForth Posted April 16, 2002 Posted April 16, 2002 It's not your computer. LucasArts disabled the Alt-Tab function as well as ctrl-alt-delete. -RiseForth
ACGe0rge Posted April 17, 2002 Posted April 17, 2002 If you want to minimize, go to the setup screen and select "no" for the fullscreen option. After you apply the changes, the game will run in a large window that can be minimized.
Raze Posted April 17, 2002 Posted April 17, 2002 use alt tab to change to window mode.. that's the best workaround I have found..
MMZ>Magius9 Posted April 19, 2002 Posted April 19, 2002 It isn't lucasart. It is the Q3 engine. You could not do it in Q3A either. Try Alt-enter. It opens a smaller window but it will reload the map every time to you it. SO unless u got a fast system I would just del with it.
ICGALN Posted April 20, 2002 Posted April 20, 2002 I have a solution but beware it can sometimes not always work with some systems too well, but I use it and its better than nothing I think. http://uk.geocities.com/swerdnanai/ Click the only link top left. It’s a hack tool, that’s why the nice people at Id made the engine with that feature disabled. But for people who want to quickly drop out of the game to talk to someone on msn that feature is sourly missed. Its fairly simple to use, go to pull down menu select the key you want to use to bring you out of the game then press the enable button, launch the game then at anytime you want to minimize press the assigned key. (Just make sure its not assigned to a key in the game) It may bring you back to the desktop very bright that’s normal as to see the game the brightness has to be put up quite a lot and this program cant reset brightness, its not that good What I did find interesting was that not all computers disable the alt and tab feature my brothers don’t, lucky git
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