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Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Gil: 948 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 948 Donate  | Alt-tab So is there any way around this Alt-tab nonsense? It just seems silly to me that I can't check my email or reply to an IM while my character is healing. I loaded FFXI via Steam last night and that allowed me to keep in touch with my friends playing other games but I'd still like to be able to get to the internet so I can look up quests, maps, skillchains, etc... Any suggestions would be great.
Thx,
Croix |  | ::Quote Selected::  | | | 11-09-2007, 07:39 AM | #2 (permalink) | | RABBITGAME Keeper of Knowledge Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Confirmed Posts: 2,862 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 83
Thanked 209x in 161 Posts Gil: 19,723 Bank: 6,099 Total Gil: 25,822 Donate | Re: Alt-tab Killingifrit.com's Underground forum section may have something you'd be interested in but you might have to buy it out of the back of a van. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 11-09-2007, 07:58 AM | #3 (permalink) | | custom title Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 785 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 8
Thanked 4x in 4 Posts Gil: 10,700 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 10,700 Donate | Re: Alt-tab SE has said they are going to release an official windower at some point. Its highly hoped/rumored that this will happen with or shortly after WotG. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 11-09-2007, 10:08 AM | #4 (permalink) | | Dynamis Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: Roe Dilund Posts: 551 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 256
Thanked 53x in 44 Posts Gil: 19,165 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 19,165 Donate | Re: Alt-tab It is kinda annoying that I now have to do Ctrl-Alt-Del just to ditch a party full of level 75 morons who think they're the epitome of godlike melees.
Just kidding.. I know SE did it as a prep for their own windowed-mode support. A heads-up would've been nice instead of trying for 15 minutes one night why I couldn't jump out of the game.  Olorin - Ramuh Server WHM75 BRD75 BLM75 RDM70 SMN39 - TheAfterLife LS  | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 11-09-2007, 06:48 PM | #5 (permalink) | | The S.E.E.S. Brigade Oracle of Knowledge Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6,430 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 1,594
Thanked 1,393x in 973 Posts Gil: 13,804 Bank: 209,740 Total Gil: 223,544 Donate | Re: Alt-tab in other news, computers are cheap as hell.
if you PM me where you live, I can probably find you a second computer you could use for under $100. Second computers > windowed mode. | Quote: | | When I first did the balance tests, the machine actually mocked me. "I see balance isn't your thing. Do you find you trip when you walk?" This is offered as a smile; but it's the smile of a taut twenty-something who has no idea that one day, age will be visiting him or her, too. | |  | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 11-09-2007, 07:02 PM | #6 (permalink) | | RABBITGAME Keeper of Knowledge Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Confirmed Posts: 2,862 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 83
Thanked 209x in 161 Posts Gil: 19,723 Bank: 6,099 Total Gil: 25,822 Donate | Re: Alt-tab A friend of mine is building a computer that can easily play Crysis for about $600. Computers are definately getting cheaper. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 11-10-2007, 05:57 AM | #7 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 229 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 17
Thanked 12x in 8 Posts Gil: 5,758 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 5,758 Donate | Re: Alt-tab Originally Posted by DakAttack  | | A friend of mine is building a computer that can easily play Crysis for about $600. Computers are definately getting cheaper. | I know, right? I get cost on computer parts where I work, and when the new quad cores started coming in, I damn near soiled myself...don't remember what retail was on them, but cost was only like $300. Way less then the $500 and up that I figured they'd be, and this was when they first came in, the price can only have dropped by now.
Of course, factor in the new mobo I'll need, plus the new ram, video card, etc, and I'm still dropping a bit on my new PC when I get my tax return, but I figure it'll be money well spent (still running single core AMD o.c.'d to 2.8 GHz with 2 gigs PC3200 memory...WAAAAAY too slow, crysis demo tops out at 800x600 with everything set to low ;  I need to engage in homicidal behavior on a massive scale. It cannot be corrected but I have no other way to fulfill my needs. - Patrick Bateman | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 11-10-2007, 06:08 AM | #8 (permalink) | | Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 901 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 6
Thanked 37x in 24 Posts Gil: 4,672 Bank: 17,787 Total Gil: 22,459 Donate | Re: Alt-tab | Originally Posted by DakAttack | | ... but you might have to buy it out of the back of a van. | Advance apologies for the off-topicness but this is the best phrase I've read in years ... | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 11-10-2007, 07:32 AM | #9 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 130 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 70
Thanked 21x in 13 Posts Gil: 8,855 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 8,855 Donate | Re: Alt-tab For the past few months, I've always ended up using this, even if the official windower happens to mess around with my frame rate (which I hope it won't): http://www.inchwest.com/mapkeyboard.aspx
I play with Compact setting even on a full-size keyboard (just because I'm more used to it), so I switch the tab and Number Pad 0 keys around to keep me from hitting alt-tab by mistake. Sure does free up my CTRL1 and ALT1 macros, heh.
Something for the full-screeners until official windower comes around. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | |
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