Quake 3 and alt+tab

cokecan

cokecan

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is this possible at all. i'm running it in a window at the min but want to be able to alt+tab out or at least minimize it

i found that win_noalttab # works with wolfenstien (with the Q3 engine?) but it dont work in Q3
 
yerh it is but DONT if you get it working normaly messes up the desktop in a nice bright colour so you need to restart your pc (does the same on quake 4 for me at times) but it was the same for bhd 2..... makes the constrats and brightness go sun style ........ best way is to crank up your screen resoloution and play quake not in full screen (you playing at work or college) ????
 
work shamelessly :)

my current screen res is only 1024x768 with a crappy crt. running quake 3 in windowed mode (i8.e. full screen disabled in its video options)

how do you get the alt tab bit workin? be interested to try and see what it does :)
 
Iirc, you can't alt-tab. I use alt-enter to switch to windowed and ctrl-alt-del to allow me to stop the Q3 window having focus. You can alt-tab normally in Q4 as long as it's in windowed mode.
 
windows key dont work either :(

guess the only way is to pause, ctrl+alt+del but it seems like so much effort lol
 
Lol. You made me doubt myself anyhow, so not all is lost ;)

Though maybe windows+T might be a super-secret key combination that I'd not heard of...
 
Hmm apparently Windows key + D does something similar, "minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop" Says that on the MS website.
 
lol thats pretty much what i've been doing so far except actually typing quit, though annoying cos i have to set up a game again then :(
 
I usually ctrl+alt+del - Task Manager comes up, find Quake 3 or Quake 4 in the list, right click, minimize.

TrUz
 
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