Beta 4 - Game gets stuck upon tasking out while starting a new mansion?

[SoItBegins]

I just downloaded Beta 4 from the site earlier today. After launching it in windowed mode (it was mostly smooth, despite a 75-tab Firefox session running in the background), I started a new Easy game and headed for Hint House. After clicking to load the place, I immediately tasked out (Cmd+Tab) and continued to check the web page I was reading.

When I tasked back, the opening fade-in had not completed, but the pause box had come up and could be very dimly seen. The game was effectively stuck— the pause box couldn't be clicked because the game wouldn't accept any input until the (paused) opening fade was over; a classic Catch-22. I had to close the window, thus quitting the game, to get out of it.

Stats: Midnight Mansion Episode 1 was running on my PowerBook G4 (PPC), 10.5.8.

[VernJensen]

Okay, thanks. I'll make sure Pause doesn't come up during game start-up.

[As a side note: I'm guessing you could've hit Esc to get out of it. Esc will dismiss the paused dialog.]

[VernJensen]

Er, I mean I'll fix it so fades happen instantly if the game pauses during mansion loading.

[SoItBegins]

4E7D6A76527D766B7D76180 wrote:
[As a side note: I'm guessing you could've hit Esc to get out of it. Esc will dismiss the paused dialog.]

Interestingly enough, this happened to me again, so I hit Esc. That dismissed the pause box, but the fade was still stuck.
So, I hit Cmd-Q, to quit, and the 'quit confirmation box' banished the fade. Then I closed the box and the game worked normally.

[VernJensen]

Cool. It's already fixed in beta 5, regardless.