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Game Freezes After Switching Back from another Window

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2025 11:26 pm
by Dereck
I'm playing WITP:AE in window-mode. Whenever I go from the WITP window to another and back the WITP window freezes for a number of seconds. I'm not at the computer where the game is installed but is this normal or tomorrow when I get on that computer should I provide more information (like the switches I am using and compatibility mode?

Thanks

Re: Game Freezes After Switching Back from another Window

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:35 am
by Chris21wen
Not for me. It's likely to be your switches so post them please.

I don't use compatibility mode all I do is set the switches. You could try running without it.

Probalby not a problem but do you get anything odd when switching to any other aps/games ?

Re: Game Freezes After Switching Back from another Window

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:11 pm
by Dereck
Chris21wen wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:35 am Not for me. It's likely to be your switches so post them please.

I don't use compatibility mode all I do is set the switches. You could try running without it.

Probalby not a problem but do you get anything odd when switching to any other aps/games ?
All I have on this computer are, games (War in the West, War in the East, War in the East II and War in the Pacific: AE, Intel Monkey and WitP Tracker) and my photo software (DPP4, Bulk Rename Utility, Lightroom and Photoshop) and all the others work okay. It's not a big problem but it is irritating and if I can get rid of it it would help when I go look at something while playing the game.

Here are my switches:

-wd -cpu4 -deepColor -pxf1450 -pyf1000 -archive

Here's the compatibility mode. I checked and it does it with or without a mode set and I have this set because this was what I had the last time I had played the game prior to this time.

Compatibility Mode.jpg
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Re: Game Freezes After Switching Back from another Window

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:17 pm
by Yaab
Did you try -dd_sw switch?

Re: Game Freezes After Switching Back from another Window

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:38 pm
by Dereck
Yaab wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:17 pm Did you try -dd_sw switch?
Not sure what that switch does but it seems to have done the trick. Thanks.