Re: [AD] d3d fullscreen alt-tab crash

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:31:08 -0600, "Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I was wanting to test the lost device work you've been doing, to see
> > what difference it makes from the 5.0 to 5.1 branches.  How do you
> > normally trigger that?  I guessed that a fullscreen mode is required.
> >
> > Peter
> 
> I don't know about XP, but on Windows 7 Ctrl-Alt-Del will trigger it no
> matter if you're fullscreen or not. But so will alt-tabbing out of a
> fullscreen app. Sleep and hibernate will do it too, as will minimizing but
> we have no minimize button.
> 
> I just tried running a5teroids in fullscreen on Windows 7 and XP. It works
> on both if I alt-tab in and out. Can you try this binary maybe?
> http://trent.gamblin.ca/tmp/a.zip.

Yes, it crashes if I alt-tab out of the game with -fullscreen.
Less so if I alt-tab when in the menu, but still happens sometimes.

I won't do any more testing tonight as it's a bit late.

Peter