I think this might not get answered at all, but I'll try anyway...
I often use ALT-TAB to get out of game, do some stuff and get back. The problem is that while ME2 is minimized the process eats up all CPU time.
Suspending ME2 process causes system to have much slower reactions until it doesn't respond at all (even mouse cursor gets frozen).
However suspending any other (non-system) process never causes problem like this - even other (modern) games.
So I'd like to know, what kind of "special API" does ME2 use, so its process can't be suspended.
This happens on my PC:
- Windows XP SP2
- Powercolor ATI 4870 512MB
- Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz
- 3GB RAM
However this doesn't happen on my laptop - with Windows 7 64-bit.
Suspending ME2 process continuosly locks up system
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, août 30 2010 12:37
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Posté 30 août 2010 - 12:55
Gorath Alpha
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That happens all of the time, with many games, and it's always the same way to avoid it, has been the same for years, you just don't use Alt-Tab that way in games such as this. You buffer it. Simple.
http://www.google.co... the game crash
http://www.google.co... the game crash
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Posté 30 août 2010 - 12:58
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it doesn't freeze up for me i do this all the time
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Posté 30 août 2010 - 09:18
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@Gorath Alpha: No, you probably don't understand it. All games, which support ALT-Tabbing (and which I play), don't have such issues when suspsending their processes.
Only ME2 and only on WinXP machine. And since ME2 has much better support for ALT-Tabbing than ME1, I didn't suspect it would cause this problem.
I'd like to ask developers, which definitely know more than average player, to give me little hint (aside - don't do that). If it's not possible - OK, I'll deal with it. But I'd like to at least know why...
Only ME2 and only on WinXP machine. And since ME2 has much better support for ALT-Tabbing than ME1, I didn't suspect it would cause this problem.
I'd like to ask developers, which definitely know more than average player, to give me little hint (aside - don't do that). If it's not possible - OK, I'll deal with it. But I'd like to at least know why...
