Switching screens with Is, ISBoxer, and EQ1

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:23 pm

I have started having a problem lately whenever I alt-tab out of the EQ windows. Usually one window will still show the game, but when i switch to the other, Im now looking at the desktop, but cant control the desktop as its not really in the foreground. I have close out that window and re-load that profile without ISBoxer in order to get it working properly. Luckily the ISBoxer controls are still working. It's only started in the past couple of days too.

Post by **Lax** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:48 am

Are you minimizing the window? There is a known issue with minimizing not working correctly, and that's the only reason I can think of that this would happen -- it sounds like the window is simply not visible to you.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:10 am

I'm not minimizing the window. What happened after I posted yesterday and started it up again, I was running my main toon back to camp. As I neared it, I saw my chanter high tail it and run away. Needless to say, I died since he took the merc cleric and warrior with him, but thats ok. He only took off so far, and when I switched back to his window, I had the same problem. His window was active, but I was looking at the desktop instead. I also noticed that, by being on the chanter's window and watching him on the background session, that he was lagging extremely bad. took about 5 minutes to get him to actually turn around, so his commands were still being sent.

It did it before I re-formatted my C drive and re-installed windows and afterwards, so I'm sure its something else. Wondering if maybe I have a corruption in the settings somewhere maybe, but thats speculative.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:25 am

Just had it happen again this morning. Was zoning both toons at the same time. The chanter (second toon to zone) "dropped" to desktop while zoning. The only thing I had done was alt-tab out to Firefox to look up a combination before I zoned either character.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:26 am

and its doing it to both screens now... when they are in session 2 (background) I see them fine, its only when they are in session 1 that I cant see anything.

Post by **Lax** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:51 am

It actually kind of sounds like the game might be freezing up, because unless you're running WindowSnapper standalone (as in without ISBoxer) this shouldn't be possible. However, if you ARE using ISBoxer, I am updating to Build 32 shortly, which has some window positioning updates that may or may not affect the issue.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:06 pm

I updated before comming to the boards. However, i have the same problem. Im not minimizing the windows, just alt-tabbing, and while logging in, BOTH windows now exhibit the same problem. It's acting like it is minimizing the window, yet I still have control of the toon for that window. Everything is fine in session 2 which is my "background" toon.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:16 pm

So far, as long as I let one toon log in all the way first then log in the other toon withot switching windows until they are in, I have no problems so far tonight. Will continue testing and see how it goes.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:14 pm

Yea, problem seems to occur mostly from switching back and forth and if one toon is loading or zoning and I switch.

Post by **Lax** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:17 am

Ok. I will check it out. So this is with ISBoxer then?

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:12 pm

Yes, this is with ISBoxer. If i load the profiles without it, I don't have this problem at all.

eolewis · Post by **eolewis** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:13 pm

Yes, this is with ISBoxer. If i load the profiles without it, I don't have this problem at all.