[James Ross]

I'd like to promote the "Fast full-screen alt-tab" option from an experiment to a fully-fledged option (on Video tab) and suggest that it be enabled by default.

• Pro: You can alt-tab out the game at any time, including during loading, without breaking anything and without any costly display mode switch.
  
• Pro: You can interact with other programs on any monitor without the game minimizing.
  
• Pro: The screenshot button, Print Screen, is more likely to work (i.e. it'll work as well as it does in windowed mode).
  
• Con: The performance suffers a small amount. I believe it is <5% but will vary.

You'd still be able to turn it off, but I believe the pros easily outweigh the cons. Do people agree?

[atsf37l]

My 24" monitor loves it! I'd be happier with it being the default option and therefore vote yes! :rolleyes:

[Sid P.]

Hi James,
I'm in favour - works fine for me.

Cheers,
Sid

[thegrindre]

I don't use the alt-tab. My keyboard has a Windows key that takes me straight to the desktop when I hit it no matter what program I'm in.
I'm against it if it takes up valuable resources. 5% here 5% there will all add up and is substantial IMO.

:)

[markus_GE]

Personally, I also like this feature disabled. If I really need to let the game running in the background, I have my "Windows" key, that also Rick mentions. Only drawback of that method is, that it works during loading, but will let things in ORTS go havoc then. But that´s what a 5% performance gain should be worth to me and my computer, that definitely is not anywhere near top-notch :)

Anyway, since it will stay an option, I´ll just uncheck it and will be happy again :)

Cheers, Markus

[planters]

I like it, it shuold be a fully-fledged option

[James Ross]

I've promoted the fast full-screen alt-tab option to non-experimental in X2499, but consensus doesn't seem to exist on making in default-on, so I have left it default-off for now.