Vgui 2.0!

BigD · January 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">CS 1.6 Steam beta starts tomorrow...</div> ...And I just saw the uber new menu system! Now, will NS still be running on the old GUI? I am going to assume so but, I just want to make sure it's all going to be nice and smooth and compatible when I get the new steam beta tomorrow.

Here's hoping v1.1 gets the new menu system! (I can't wait to be able to safely leave Trillian on while I'm playing!)

BadKarma · January 2003

Does it mean i can alt-tab and not lose sound?

BigD · January 2003

Yuppers. But so far this is only for CS and TFC from what I've read about it.

BadKarma · January 2003

/me dances jig and is eaten by alien

I've been waiting four long **** years for them to fix that ****.

Legionnaired · January 2003

/me takes karma out on the dance floor as well.

No more losing sound when one of my idiot freinds decides to IM me in the middle of the game!

WOOHOO!

Paranoia2MB · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Legionnaired @ Jan 16 2003, 10:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>/me takes karma out on the dance floor as well.

No more losing sound when one of my idiot freinds decides to IM me in the middle of the game!

WOOHOO!</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
There's something called an Away Message, use it. lol

Evildwarf · January 2003

Eh, loosing sound when you alt-tab?

Never happened to me, do it all the time. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'>

BadKarma · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Evildwarf @ Jan 16 2003, 10:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Eh, loosing sound when you alt-tab?

Never happened to me, do it all the time. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Are you the Pope?

Techwid · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BigDXLT @ Jan 16 2003, 09:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Here's hoping v1.1 gets the new menu system! (I can't wait to be able to safely leave Trillian on while I'm playing!)</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Preferences > General > Window > Initial

"Hide the window and notify me via the systray"

That will fix that, or if you don't like that. Just tell it to autominimize, the option above the systray.

And as for the alt+tab fixed sound issues, this will only happen if you join using half-lifes browser (the one that comes with the game/mod) if you use ASE, GameTiger, Gamespy, you wont have this problem because all you have to simply do is press esc then resume.

Something that should have been fixed long ago, but I have gotten so used to the work around (and like it better) that it doesnt matter to me :o

DOOManiac · January 2003

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=19804' target='_blank'>*cough*</a>

Chron · January 2003

you guys have voodoo cards or something? my gf2 and gf4 worked fine with alt-tabbing. Other than when I come back, I get a windows cursor in the middle of my screen, I need to esc to the menu and resume to make it go away.

Trane · January 2003

Btw, a little late, but here is an easy way to get sound back once its lost. Just go to the multiplayer menu, then alt-tab out of the game. Now alt-tab back into the game and press resume game. Poof, you should have sound back. I know for a fact this works using windows xp, but you can't alt tab back in, you have to use the ctrl alt delete task manager. Same idea though. Happy sound recovering.

Silver_Fox · January 2003

the sound issue happens when you use the ingame browser to join a game.

If you alt tab, you lose your sound.

if you use a browser outside the game, such as ASE of GS 3D and alt tab, you can press escape twice to get your sound back.

There also may be something else ...

in the past, this was always the case, but I've noticed recently that if I alt tab (while using GS 3D) and go back into the game, I still have sound (But I have a cursor stuck on my screen, so have to press esc twice anyway). Might be a new driver version or the recent HL patch, dunno ..

Fina · January 2003

DirectX 9.0 REALLY screws up alt-tabbing out. When I alt-tab out of any game, the screen is spit into 4 small screens. I may go back to 8.1.

Puistokemisti · January 2003

I regularry Alt+Tab out of NS when I hear the peep that Trillian uses to tell you that you got some more spam
I never hit esc or anything like that
I'm either dead, in quiet spot or deciced that we are screwed anyway
I have gotten the missing sound couple times but Alt+Tabbing again fixes it everytime for me
I don't know, maybe it's because this piece of junk supports multiple audio streams or maybe it's because baby Jesus loves me

Silver_Fox · January 2003

I have DX 9 and have no problems alt-tabbing ...

Vyvn · January 2003

...What about that problem where if you join 3 servers / alt+tab 3 times or any such combination that totals 3 "black screen / resizes," your comp reboots? Anyone else have that problem? Is it caused by the same thing as the sound issue?

Strange, because I didn't use to have this issue. I even tried reinstalling HL, but to no avail. Eh, it's probably caused by some other program I installed conflicting with HL and the patch won't do anything. Oh well.

voogru · January 2003

Im always alt-tabbing, i never loose sound since i run in windowed mode.

<a href='http://www.voogru.net/www/images/MULTITASK.jpg' target='_blank'>http://www.voogru.net/www/images/MULTITASK.jpg</a>

I take multitasking very seroiusly.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Necro · January 2003

your mistaking, from what i read, thats in steam 2.0, while the vgui changes seem an engine thing the sound bug wont be fixed until a new HL is released, and i think they're only releasing steam + cs 1.6 for testers

Vgui 2.0!

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