Leopard ??

[Freddy]

When I see all remarks in the last 4 topics, I wonder if there could be any relation with macosx 10.5

Two odd issues in Brugge ... :

1° After playing MM full screen it often happened that the files on my desktop had moved.

2° During play (full screen) sometimes the game was frozen for several minutes. And I may be wrong, but I think that it always happened when the Time Machine got in action. Anyway, doing nothing ;D helped!

[rose]

I use Leopard but I haven't had any problems. I even have tried playing in a full screen mode. The only problem is the player ;D ;D ;D

[aquaMat]

Freddy wrote: 1° After playing MM full screen it often happened that the files on my desktop had moved.

2° During play (full screen) sometimes the game was frozen for several minutes. And I may be wrong, but I think that it always happened when the Time Machine got in action. Anyway, doing nothing ;D helped!

Freddy, the problem with files on the desktop being moved after a full-screen game is an old problem....and the reason for that is the automatic switching of monitor resolution that takes place when a game is played in full-screen.
It happens to me very often, but strangely never happens with MM. (I am still using OS 10.4.7, however).

But it does happen, for example, when I play MM in full-screen and then do a screenshot (cmd-sw-3) !!  Very strange.....
But even this is related to the resolution-switching.... 'cause when I do the screenshot while using the MM editor (= playing without resolution change) the desktop is not in disarray !!

[aquaMat]

Sorry:

I completely forgot: welcome back, Freddy !!!
It's really good to see you back..... I hope everything's okay now ?

[VernJensen]

aquaMat wrote:
Freddy, the problem with files on the desktop being moved after a full-screen game is an old problem....and the reason for that is the automatic switching of monitor resolution that takes place when a game is played in full-screen.
It happens to me very often, but strangely never happens with MM. (I am still using OS 10.4.7, however).

But it does happen, for example, when I play MM in full-screen and then do a screenshot (cmd-sw-3) !!  Very strange.....
But even this is related to the resolution-switching.... 'cause when I do the screenshot while using the MM editor (= playing without resolution change) the desktop is not in disarray !!

The problem is this: If you switch the game to some smaller resolution, such as 640x480, and put a new file on your desktop while the game is full-screen in this resolution (such as a screenshot, a saved game, or anything else), AND your desktop does not have room (at the smaller resolution) to put your new icon there in a nice way, then when you switch back to your normal resolution all your icons will be piled up on top of each other!!!

This is a very vexing problem that users blame developers for, but the thing is we can't do a darn thing about it. There has been much complaining on the Apple developer lists for years about this... that it is a KNOWN issue in OS X, and Apple has done nothing about it. Sigh. Wish I could fix it, but I can't.

But... knowing about it, you can at least know to avoid taking screenshots or saving files to your desktop while fullscreen in a smaller resolution.