[.86][Bug]Game does not come back from computer going into Standby

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Hi Everyone;

 

If I let my computer enter standby mode while I am playing Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, upon bringing the computer back awake the game will only show a black screen with the sword cursor.  I can access everything else that was running on my computer fine (using Alt+Tab) but I have to force quite Elemental: Fallen Enchantress using the task manager and restart it to get any kind of picture back in the game.

 

Keep up the great work!

 

Shadallark

 

[Edit]: Running Fallen Enchantress Beta 0.86 on an HP Laptop, i5 CPU, M 560 @ 2.5 GHz, 1.17 GHz, 2.99 GB of RAM, running Windows XP (fully updated).

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

So it still happens ?!  I've been avoiding standby since it messed up .7x.  Sigh, guess I should test again.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Every time I bring up the fact that ALT-TAB'ing in and out of this game is NOT reliable, everybody jumps on me.  Everybody will jump on you for having Windows XP.  But just so you know, I'm on Windows 7 and experience the same issues bro!  I really hope they fix this and quit disregarding it as only affecting a few users.  I never have any problems with ALT-TAB'ing or machine going to sleep then re-engaging with my other games.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Trojasmic, reply 2
Every time I bring up the fact that ALT-TAB'ing in and out of this game is NOT reliable, everybody jumps on me.  Everybody will jump on you for having Windows XP. 
End of Trojasmic's quote

 

Damn, I'm gonna get "jumped" twice !  

Yes, I still use Windows XP on my desktop machine.  And yes, same as Shadallark and Trojasmic, I would like to report the existence of this ( very annoying ) bug. 

Invariably, if I leave my computer alone, long enough for it to go into Standby Mode, it crashes to a black screen, with only the crossed swords cursor shown.  The cursor does not work however; and the ONLY way to recover from this crash (at least for the purpose of playing the game again) is to "hard-kill" the machine, by pushing the manual on/off button on my CPU cabinet.  As a result, it takes a long time to recover from this crash; and sometimes I just stop playing FE for a while.

The thing is, guys, if we don't report this sort of bug, how can we expect that it will ever be corrected ? 

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top


Yeah, I'm on Vista and get exactly the same crash behaviour.  Thought it was just due to my poxy laptop, but whadda ya know...

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Trojasmic, reply 2
Every time I bring up the fact that ALT-TAB'ing in and out of this game is NOT reliable, everybody jumps on me.  Everybody will jump on you for having Windows XP.  But just so you know, I'm on Windows 7 and experience the same issues bro!  I really hope they fix this and quit disregarding it as only affecting a few users.  I never have any problems with ALT-TAB'ing or machine going to sleep then re-engaging with my other games.
End of Trojasmic's quote

 

I actually have no issue alt tabbing. But I play in window mode with it set to take up the whole screen rather than full screen mode.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Fistalis, reply 5
But I play in window mode with it set to take up the whole screen rather than full screen mode.
End of Fistalis's quote

That's the traditional work around for Stardock games that have this problem.