Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
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Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
This happens very often and makes it impossible to play in fullscreen, as it will crash often when I click on an icon to create a unit. When I view this in the task manager, it changes icons about 2-3 times a second, It seems it is minimizing and maximizing shortly after that. I've tried multiple times to reinstall spring, and even my mods (It does this for all mods I've tried) But nothing works.
Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
attach infolog.txt of such a game to your post, as file.
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SirArtturi
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Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
If you have windows7, make sure you dont have firefox running background. It causes many conflicts with many programs.
I h8 windows7.
I h8 windows7.
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Forboding Angel
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Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
Win7 is awesome, best OS MS has ever put out.
That said, yes, firefox an thunderbird, just close them and it'll stop doing that crap. It isn't just spring that suffers from this, it's other games as well (for example: hiverise), always caused by firefox.
That said, yes, firefox an thunderbird, just close them and it'll stop doing that crap. It isn't just spring that suffers from this, it's other games as well (for example: hiverise), always caused by firefox.
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SirArtturi
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Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
Going off-topic but the reason I h8 windows 7 is the 'new' explorer. Many useful functions from xp has been dissapeared plus win7 is ram-heavy...Forboding Angel wrote:Win7 is awesome, best OS MS has ever put out.
That said, yes, firefox an thunderbird, just close them and it'll stop doing that crap. It isn't just spring that suffers from this, it's other games as well (for example: hiverise), always caused by firefox.
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Forboding Angel
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Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
Wut? Win7 explorer can do everything XP explorer could and assloads more. Might wanna do some reading of various tech blogs to find out all the enhancements. When using XP explorer I still want to shoot myself. That thing sucked a big one. It's like trying to build a car with stone age tools.
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very_bad_soldier
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Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
e.g. how can I make it show the summarized file size of all selected files when I have more than 15 selected like in XP (without the need of extra clicks)?
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http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/very_bad_soldier wrote:e.g. how can I make it show the summarized file size of all selected files when I have more than 15 selected like in XP (without the need of extra clicks)?
Dunno if that fixes it but it's open source so get working!
Anyway, I don't think I've ever found myself annoyed that I can't see the file size for when more than 15 files are selected. If I'm working with more than 15 files, chances are I'll be doing much more computer intensive activities to give a damn about right clicking 'properties'.
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very_bad_soldier
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Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
The point was that Win7's explorer has drawbacks (you can ofc code a better explorer by yourself if you have lots of spare time). Thanks for proving the point. 
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Every OS has drawbacks. The point you used to show a drawback in Windows 7 is minuscule compared to other problems with W7 and problems with other Operating Systems.very_bad_soldier wrote:The point was that Win7's explorer has drawbacks (you can ofc code a better explorer by yourself if you have lots of spare time). Thanks for proving the point.
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very_bad_soldier
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Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
You are escalating the point now. I never said anything about Win vs. Linux. I actually use Win7 and I like it (more than other OSs) but I am missing some features in the explorer I was used to on XP. Obviously I am not alone.Jazcash wrote: Every OS has drawbacks. The point you used to show a drawback in Windows 7 is minuscule compared to other problems with W7 and problems with other Operating Systems.
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very_bad_soldier wrote:You are escalating the point now. I never said anything about Win vs. Linux. I actually use Win7 and I like it (more than other OSs) but I am missing some features in the explorer I was used to on XP. Obviously I am not alone.Jazcash wrote: Every OS has drawbacks. The point you used to show a drawback in Windows 7 is minuscule compared to other problems with W7 and problems with other Operating Systems.
I was referring to your point:
Also, I never said anything about Win vs Linux either...very_bad_soldier wrote:The point was that Win7's explorer has drawbacks
Re: Spring randomly minimizes its self while in-game
When W7 in trial mode then any notification popup window concerning trial period will force you to desktop. But this happens not very often.
Anyway i think author is enjoying watching his thread converting into flame wars.
What's your technical specs, dude?
Anyway i think author is enjoying watching his thread converting into flame wars.
What's your technical specs, dude?