Re: When Is A Game Old?

On 4/12/2024 6:14 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
 

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I grew up playing emulators, so I don't really care that much.
Thenagain, I was scared of fullscreen games :)

  I still have that fear when it comes to full-screen games from the
Win9x/early XP era. They were so... FRAGILE when it came to running in
full-screen (or, more importantly, when you tried to alt-tab out of
them). Back in the '95 days, switching away from a full-screen game
could lock up your computer (these days, the older game might lock up,
but you're PC will keep running fine otherwise. That's progress, I
suppose).
 

I've had the same problem with at least 2 of the recent games I played, Deathloop and Dragon's Dogma.  Both would hard freeze the game if you left it paused in fullscreen.  Even not alt-tabbing, a few minutes and it would freeze.  I had to run both in windowed for them not to freeze.
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