TGE game not visible after screensaver kicks in
by Joey Skinner · in Torque Game Engine · 02/28/2008 (12:12 pm) · 1 replies
After you move the mouse to exit the screen saver, my TGE game is no longer there. If you try to run it again, nothing happens. This is because the old process is still alive. I have to go to Task Manager to kill the previous process before being able to start a new one.
This only happens on one particular laptop currently.
Can I disable the screensaver? Or, can I check for a running instance of the game engine and kill it during initialization so the new instance can run?
Any advice in this area would be greatly appreciated.
This only happens on one particular laptop currently.
Can I disable the screensaver? Or, can I check for a running instance of the game engine and kill it during initialization so the new instance can run?
Any advice in this area would be greatly appreciated.
Torque Owner Jason Gossiaux
Indie Dev
If you edit the engine you can probably locate and kill any other instances of the engine currently running. However that is a pretty excessive thing to do and could potentially cause some issues.
In VB.NET I have attached to a running excel instance using Dim oExcel as object = GetObject(, "Excel.Application"). I am not sure exactly how to modify that in VC++ to attach to an instance of TGE, but it might be a start.
You can always disable the screen saver in the display settings too :P Also, does this only happen when running full screen, or windowed? Perhaps trying one or the other might alleviate it. Good luck with figuring it out.