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[301] Task switching issues when loading game in Full Screen mode


PrimeHydra

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Due to the longish load times in the beta, I've played with switching tasks (Alt + Tab out) while waiting for a game to load. I notice that when the game is full-screen, this seems to suspend the process of the game loading. I then wait while the game loads where it left off before I switched out. To work around this, I find myself going Alt+Enter to Windowed mode, where the game seems to process correctly in the background while I'm doing other stuff.

 

Other times, I've switched back to PoE while loading a game (full screen) to find the screen completely black, or frozen on "Game paused" with my character's portraits offscreen. But the HDD light on my machine is unlit, and I can press Esc and hear the sound of the game's Options dialog being brought up. It's as though the game loaded but the screen isn't being redrawn, or a black overlay from the load screen remains in place.  I can switch to Windowed mode (Alt + Enter) to restore the graphics.

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Also: When attempting to switch back to PoE after alt+tabbing out during a full-screen-mode game load, the app may not respond for a few minutes. Eventually the screen does come back, but it appears to the user as though they've broken it :)  It would be great if there were some way to make full-screen mode play as well with task switching as windowed mode does.

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