Screen Saver - Issue

[FFE]

I am unable to continue playing after the screen saver turns on. The game becomes a small portion of the screen, and the cursor does not respond to any clicks within the miniaturized game screen. I can tab out of the game. I am using a standard XP Pro screen saver.

[ericbabe]

Can you return to the game with the task manager?  I'm not familiar with the screen saver you mention -- what is its name in the list of standard XP screen savers?

[Sonny]

When I come back from screen saver the map is in black and white with a little rectangle in the lower left of the screen. I click on the little rectangle and it turns blue then I right click and the game is back to normal.


EDIT: Correction - I don't right click - I double click the little blue rectangle and the game comes back.

[FFE]

I can alt-tab back to the game. The screen is miniaturized, and does not accept commands. The screen is so small I can see 50% of the desktop, too. I have been unable to restore the miniature game back to full size.

[ericbabe]

Do you know what the name of the standard XP screen saver is that you are using?  I'd like to try to duplicate this on my machine, but can't if I don't have the screen saver.  It sounds as though the screen saver is changing the resolution of the screen in a way that is not recognized by DirectX.

[FFE]

Using 3-D Pipes with a native resolution of 1920 x 1200. Thanks

[ericbabe]

I have duplicated the problem with "3-D Pipes".  Unfortunately it seems that Pipes is doing something that causes the DirectX routines to fail to re-initialize the screen resolution when FOF is restored.  I don't know of any other routines to call to try to set the resolution off-hand.  Unless I can find something else, I'm going to have to recommend simply disabling that screen saver.  I will experiment to see whether or not other standard XP screen savers cause this problem.

[FFE]

Great, glad you were able to reproduce it!