Re: A couple of simple ways to make it more friend
 

What I think is going on is that while it technically goes into the background, if it doesn't monitor the message queue it doesn't see what happened and know to release the screen.

And I do mean 10 minutes of AI think time--this on a 3ghz processor with oodles of ram. Admittedly the memory is currently in single-channel mode. I've been having trouble getting a response out of Corsair about the memory chip that died--I've come to suspect that something is wrong in their e-mail and I'm going to call them again Monday and try a different e-mail address.

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That's wrong - size of the map doesn't affect anything in game mechanics. On a huge map you could finish research at about turn 65, on a small map it would be more like turn 75-80 (but you'd spend much less real time to get there on small map). So if you want to see late spells and summons, it's better to play smaller maps.

Re: A couple of simple ways to make it more friend
 

It shouldn't need to do anything explicit. OS should be able to take the screen over (or shouldn't allow an application to monopolize it).

Oh well, maybe that's a reason somehow. Btw, does it happen in one particular game or you have it in every game of comparable size?

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You can run the game in multiple windows on a single computer.

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In my current crappy computer, Dom III screen becomes garbled if I alt/tab out. Same goes for windowed mode.

But I suppose this has to do with my current computer, not Dom III.

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My CDROM (well, DVDROM, but irrelevant) is busted as well, I just installed the game on the other computer and copied the game folder to the computer with the busted CDROM.

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But don't you need the physical CD in the computer to play Dom III? Most games won't let you play without a disc or so I thought.

If that is not the case, then I suppose I can run it on two computer with just 1 disc, since I have multiple monitors, keyboards, and mice.

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No need for a physical CD (well, at least not in the linux version, but I think this is the case for all platforms.)

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You don't need physical CD other than for the installation. However Dom3 license limits you to a single concurrent copy on a computer storage medium (aside of backup). That sounds curious because I don't see any straightforward way to play it without having one copy on the hard drive and another copy in RAM http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Really? I should read that since Ive always put it on my windows desktop machine and my linux server, with full knowledge of the devs.

Im not sure how thats worded but the game is purposely setup to allow seperation of client and host. The host copy doesnt check its own serial against the players to specifically allow that.