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Old February 28, 2003, 18:19   #1
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Once in MOO3 - You can never leave...
I'm running WinXP on a 1.6GHz machine with 512MB Ram. I cannot alt-tab or ctrl-esc, or in any other way, jump to another program and come back to MOO3. It always freezes up. When I alt-tab back to it I get a heinous garbled visual and clicking or keyboard does nothing. Only way to exit is to unload from task manager. Bummer - and this is with nothing else running. So, if I wanted to be playing a CD or WinAmp in the background, I have to Save Game, Exit Game, add songs to my WinAmp playlist, Run Game, Load Game. Ugh.

I see a friend has come online in Instant Messenger or ICQ - I go to chat with them for a sec - ugh - crashed.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Old February 28, 2003, 18:39   #2
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yep, it has something do do with the directx drivers I think someone said, hopefully a patch will fix it
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Old February 28, 2003, 19:54   #3
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Well, its not the first game I've played that has been resource demanding.
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Old February 28, 2003, 21:56   #4
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I've gotten in and out a few times, but just crashed: direct-x surface unavailable, or something to that point. annoying, esp. since I can play this for hours.
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Old February 28, 2003, 22:24   #5
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What version of Direct X do you have Oddible? Version 8.1 or version 9? If the former, then perhaps installing the latter might fix the problem?
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Old February 28, 2003, 23:33   #6
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Oddible I have XP PRO and had that problem. I now use the Windows key and it at least does not hang. I get a messed up screen, but running the cursor over it clears it. I have taken to bringing up the Empire screen, so I can clear teh close button and close it. This gets the page drawn and all is well. Annoying, but better than a freeze.
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Old March 1, 2003, 15:00   #7
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Well you know, in the readme it says explicitly that you cannot alt-tab out, so just don't expect to be able to do so...
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