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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: louscroo on June 08, 2009, 07:32:43 am

Title: Game Pausing when I leave the Window
Post by: louscroo on June 08, 2009, 07:32:43 am

How do  turn this off so that the game visually runs when i leave the window?

Title: Re: Game Pausing when I leave the Window
Post by: Madoring on June 08, 2009, 10:27:28 am

I don't think the game "pauses" it's an online game...it may just be some computer lag or something. ;D

Title: Re: Game Pausing when I leave the Window
Post by: Nykolai Raskaniov on June 08, 2009, 10:58:33 am

I think the effects are slightly different depending on your OS.

On Vista, windowed mode, the game runs at full speed even if I switch to another window, but if I minimize the window, it will continue run without drawing the graphics, which is slightly easier on the processor (and possibly memory as well).

Title: Re: Game Pausing when I leave the Window
Post by: neko kyouran on June 08, 2009, 03:44:10 pm

It's mainly due to how your OS handles windows in the background. whether it continues to draw the images as they update, or not.

Title: Re: Game Pausing when I leave the Window
Post by: Janner on June 08, 2009, 09:37:49 pm

Quote from: louscroo on June 08, 2009, 07:32:43 am

How do  turn this off so that the game visually runs when i leave the window?

Did you try this?

-The client pauses when it looses focus. Essentially, if you want the client to keep running also when the window does not have focus, you need to open the file psclient.cfg in a text editor, and add the following line at the end of it:
System.RunWhenNotFocused = true

This is from Mac part of forum.