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Can you guys do that when you run tactics ? or it seems to me that I can not do that while playing.. if anyone know what to do to allow it, please tell me. thx
 
They seem to have disabled it, and probably with reason. I had AOL Instant Messenger running (one of my friends uses it - I hate it), and it disconnected. So while in FOT, I got switched out to a dialog asking if I wanted to reconnect to AIM. I said no, and went back to FOT. Then for whatever reason, AIM popped up another dialog and I got switched out of FOT again. I shut down AIM this time and went back to FOT. I had just finished a nasty battle with 5 lifter bots on mission 13 (Great Bend), and about 10 seconds after coming back to FOT after AIM the second time, FOT simply shut down. No message or anything - just gone!

Now regardless of whether or not you think ALT+TAB should work, it appears that FOT may not like being suspended and resumed in this manner. This is, for the record, the FIRST (WOW!) time that I had FOT crash, and I can't help but think the AIM deal was the cause. So feel free to try some hack to get it to work, but my guess is that unless they spend some time patching the game to make it "multi-task" better, you'll probably experiences crashes much more frequently if you leave FOT and go to another application. Just my thoughts on the matter.
 
The poitn is, I can not get FOT to exit no matter what happens outside the game, even if netscape crashes, I will only see the error msg that tells me netscape has to be force closed AFTER I exit the game. Currently I have not experienced any event that would override tactics and return to windows..

This is very annoying.. I can't check icq and other things such as downloading during gameplay, hope they fix it with the patch
 
Easy way to get FOT Windowed, put a -w on the command line (right click the fot icon and select properties), it should then be windowed..

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sorry to be a pain.. but now I need to know how to get it back to full screen again. thx
 
Hehe, to my experience, Windows 2000 doesn't to allow the suppression of the Windows key so I can get out with that anytime in FOT (but some game crashes if i use it).
 
>eaither remove the -w switch or
>go to option, display and
>select a display mode
>--

doesn´t work for me, maybe because of winMe ?

if so, any advice for me?
 
how do you mean it won't work?

first remove the -w switch. then start the game. go to options, display settings and choose a resolution, it must put back tactics into FULL screen. next time you start a game, it uses that setting, not -w mode
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sorry, i replied to the wrong message, i meant, that i still can´t make alt-tab work.
 
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