Spring.exe disappears if I alt tab or lose focus

[BeefofAges]

If I alt tab out of Spring, the game isn't in the taskbar or in the Task Manager applications tab. It IS, however, in the process tab. As far as I can tell, the game is still running just fine, I just can't get back into it.

I'm running Vista x64.

My system specs:
Intel E8400
Radeon 4870 running 8.9 Catalyst drivers. (I had this problem with older drivers too)
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L mobo
4 GB of RAM

I didn't have this problem on my old PC, which was running XP. I tried setting spring.exe to XP compatibility mode, but it didn't fix the problem. This isn't really a serious issue, but it would be nice if I could fix it.

Thanks.

[aegis]

run spring in a large window

[TradeMark]

yeah windowed mode rocks.

still i want the window maximizes at start, can anyone code that for us?

[lurker]

Grab Process Explorer, it's better than task manager in every way and you can right click a process, and hit window->bring to front. It might work.

[AF]

You can do that in task manager too, but process explorer is orders of magnitude better as a program, so much so that microsoft bought them up and they're now in charge of task manager itself.

[lurker]

You can only 'bring to front' on the applications tab of task manager, which doesn't show hidden windows, so Process Explorer is needed.

[BeefofAges]

Grab Process Explorer, it's better than task manager in every way and you can right click a process, and hit window->bring to front. It might work.

Thanks, I will try that.

[BeefofAges]

How's this for weird: I ran Process Explorer, started spring, and alt-tabbed. I right click on spring.exe in Process Explorer, and it tells me spring has no windows.

[Hobo Joe]

Spring has severed its ties with Windows!


Mwahahahaha!