Game Development Community

(SOLVED) Windows 7 Torque Game Builder GUi not responding after losing focus

by Allen Jeter · in Technical Issues · 10/24/2009 (12:04 am) · 1 replies

Hello All,

I am having a really annoying problem with TGB and Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit final. TGB starts and runs fine but if I click on another app say firefox to read the docs then when I click back on TGB it checks out for about 30 seconds with not responding. Eventually it will come back but it does this every time the TGB window loses focus making it kinda difficult to do the tutorials. Any help greatly appreciated.

Specs
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Intel Core I7 @ 2.4 ghz
12GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 4890 latest drivers using D3D in TGB
Have disable visual themes checked for another TGB GUI issue (missing top menu)
Allen Jeter's profile picture
Torque Owner Allen Jeter

About the author

Recent Threads

NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Technical Issues


Torque Owner Allen Jeter
#1
10/31/2009 (10:43 pm)
Ok I finally figured out what was causing this issue at least in my case, The problem is related to direct input. Here is what gets put in the console log when this happens

DirectInput deactivated.
Activating DirectInput...

When you click back on the TGB window it tries to reactivate direct input but is having trouble doing so for some reason. In my case it was a DVI KVM switch. I have a DVI KVM switch that my Macbook Pro and Windows host are hooked to so I can share monitor mouse and keyboard. Well this was apparently playing havoc with TGB when it was trying to activate direct input on Windows 7 64 bit.

To see if this is also the issue for you I recommend unplugging all USB devices from your system except for the keyboard and mouse and make sure they are plugged directly in to a USB port on the PC itself. If all is well after that start plugging things back in one at a time to see if any USB device is causing a problem.