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Alt-tab and sound

frogger3dfrogger3d
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Hi,

I prefer playing video games in windowed mode so I can keep chatting/emailing/whatever i'm doing. With Monkey Island i notice the game pauses occasionaly when switching and the sound is stopped. When going back the sound is still off and I miss the rest of the conversation. Sound starts again when another character starts talking.

Props for the game btw, it's awesome :D

Wouter

Comments

  • smashingsmashing
    edited July 2009
    It is a common problem not with just Tell-Tale games, but with any games actually. The user can choose to switch processes as and when they like, but a sound-file is usually loaded for each piece of conversation, sound or music and would usually play in it's entirety. When you force a process to pause, there will be a delay no matter what, and the sound will usually resume close to when the process is paused. Skips of this nature are just unavoidable.
  • Chris1Chris1
    edited July 2009
    Maybe if you actually pause the game before you alt-tab, does that help?
    Or failing that maybe just play it in windowed mode.
  • smashingsmashing
    edited July 2009
    ToMI does have very powerful pause function, that let you pause even in between cutscenes. I wish all games could have as good a pause function as ToMI.
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