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From: Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: When Is A Game Old?
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:44:01 -0700
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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:
> 
> 
>>
>> 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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-Justisaur

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