Re: Bug in exotica

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I notice that this happens quite often for me, on my win98 box, with direct x
games.  An example is
Fallout 1 and 2, with it happening about 80% of time.

Greg Phillips

Todd Riggins wrote:

> Talvitie wrote:
> >
> > James Powell wrote:
> > >this is not actually a bug in Exotica.  It seems to be a bug in
> > >DirectXitself.
> > >Certain games will also exibit this behavor.  For example, Half-life will
> > >do this 3/4 of the time on my system, Darkstone does
> > >it about half the time, and Diablo always does it.  Your mileage may vary,
> > >but the one thing all these games have in commonis DirectX.
> >
> > It could be. Some games do it rarely on my machine too, but my screen saver
> > does it also sometimes.
>
> At a guess, I would agree with James. I do remember a couple of times
> when after exiting from different non-DX applications, a no-named
> taskbar
> application slot still remained in my taskbar until I ran my mouse
> cursor
> over it and it automagically disappeared. I'm guessing either it's
> just one of them MS Windows perks or I'm actually forgetting something
> to release the application 100% on a exit. Hopefully it's not the
> later because I can't find anything wrong with the way I do it. Plus,
> it's not happening to me currently.
>
> - Todd Riggins

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