I have three monitors now and typically only game on the center one (because man, what a pain it is to try and enable multi-monitor support for most games). The other issue, again one that I didn’t have back in the day when I just had one huge CRT monitor, is multiple monitors. While we’re at it, is there anyone to turn off other shortcuts that might kick me back into Windows like ALT+TAB?
Hard to trick myself into thinking I’m raiding a dungeon or something if I can see my Windows taskbar. I could run the game in Windowed mode, but that kind of ruins the immersion.
#Automation game not responding when tabbing out full#
First, when I’m playing a game in full screen mode if I bump the Windows key, most of the games will crash or lockup and I’ll get kicked back to the Windows desktop. Specifically, I’ve run into several annoyances that I’d love to find some quick fixes for. The problems I’m running into now just didn’t exist back then.
Just to be clear, when I say “back when” I mean like back when having a Pentium I was a serious gaming rig and we still booted most of our games into DOS. It’s been a long time since I’ve played computer games and, after getting back into gaming, I’ve run into some headaches that didn’t exist back when I was an avid gamer. Read on as we highlight solutions for each of those problems. Full screen video gaming on Windows has some hazards: tapping the Window key, using any sort of Windows shortcuts like ALT+TAB, or even clicking the mouse in the wrong spot if you’re using multiple monitors can crash your game.