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Title: Laptop External Monitor - HELP! Alt Tab Issue for games
Post by: SzK on July 25, 2008, 06:52:50 am

Hey I got a new lenovo 19" monitor for my acer aspire 1640 laptop.

However now when I try to alt tab out of full screen games such as Warcraft III or Age of Mythology, it takes a full second of black screen before I see any image.

I have lots of memory about 700MB free, (total 1.5Gigs). It's not a speed error since without the external monitor there is absolutely no delay or any black screen when I alt tab.

Does anyone know how to fix the 1 second of black screen every time I alt tab?

Help is greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Laptop External Monitor - HELP! Alt Tab Issue for games
Post by: SirPeale on July 26, 2008, 09:06:56 am

Sounds normal to me.  You've got some major app switching going on there. 

If it didn't swap back given a significant time frame I'd be concerned, but one second?