Minimize Game

V4ND3RP00L · Post by **V4ND3RP00L** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:29 am

I'm always wanting to minimize my game here and there to look up stuff and so forth. So I know either I can just save the game and exit it completely or I can just do the Ctrl-Alt-Del and make it minimize that way, but is there any button or something that I don't know about to make this easier?

Thanks for anyone who can help me out.

Post by **CatchUp** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:32 am

JVanderpool wrote:I'm always wanting to minimize my game here and there to look up stuff and so forth. So I know either I can just save the game and exit it completely or I can just do the Ctrl-Alt-Del and make it minimize that way, but is there any button or something that I don't know about to make this easier?

Thanks for anyone who can help me out.

I run my game in windowed mode. It's in the Preferences section of the main EHM startup screen I believe. This gives you a minimize button just like any other window. It's not full screen, but I'll take it.

Cheers.

V4ND3RP00L · Post by **V4ND3RP00L** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:46 am

I'll look into that, thanks again for the help CatchUp!

Post by **B. Stinson** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:41 am

First, I would suggest windowed mode, like CatchUp said. It makes navigation so easy.

Or, if you want to keep the full screen, you can use Alt+Tab to nav. to other things.

V4ND3RP00L · Post by **V4ND3RP00L** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:47 am

I'll probably just do the window thing and if I don't like that too much, I'll just resort to the old Alt-Tab thing.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:00 am

Windowed mode is the way to go. It's the only way I've played EHM since the first version came out. Then again, I play at work all the time so I want to be able to hide it quickly if someone comes into my office. It's also good if you're bouncing between windows, say EHM and Firefox or maybe Photoshop.

Krieger99 · Post by **Krieger99** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:51 am

Alt+Tab.

Although it's best to run your game in window mode.

Garden Dwarf · Post by **Garden Dwarf** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:48 am

bruins72 wrote:Then again, I play at work all the time so I want to be able to hide it quickly if someone comes into my office.

Eheh

I used to do that with Championship Manager. Cannot do it anymore....

sjsharkz · Post by **sjsharkz** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:21 pm

i try play in window mode on my laptop and it wont work

any pointers?

Alex the Tall · Post by **Alex the Tall** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:11 pm

sjsharkz wrote:i try play in window mode on my laptop and it wont work any pointers?

Well to make it work at my house i had to use like 1258 X 1025 pixels (something like that, i am at school right now so i can't check).

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:11 pm

sjsharkz wrote:i try play in window mode on my laptop and it wont work any pointers?

How does it not work? Do you get an error message? Does it just not look right? It's kind of hard to know what the problem might be when it just "won't work".

I've got the resolution set to 1280x1024 on my work computer and I think it might be set higher at home. The game runs perfect windowed on both. I forget what the default resolution of the game is. I want to say either 800x600 or 1024x768. What resolution is your laptop set to and what is it capable of?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:24 pm

sjsharkz wrote:i try play in window mode on my laptop and it wont work any pointers?

I had the same problem a while back and the guys here were able to help me.
Read this thread and you should be all set.

V4ND3RP00L · Post by **V4ND3RP00L** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:34 pm

I know that it asks for your window to be a certain size and the problem is that what it tells you it needs to be... it already is.

Kind of weird, but the samething happened to me. Thanks for the thread link Joe, I'll use that to see if I can get some help from it.

Aside from that, I don't mind running it in full mode too much. Just nice if you can bounce around and not have to deal with it the other way.

sjsharkz · Post by **sjsharkz** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:07 am

Hey joe i tryed taht link u gave me and still no luck :s, and bruins, my screen resolution is 1024 x 768 wont go any higher, and i only have one other option and thats 800 x 600, i dont really want to buy a graphics card for my laptop, i dont even think u can do that. but yeah i really want to play it in window it makes it so much easier to navigate etc.

Post by **CatchUp** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:24 am

sjsharkz wrote:Hey joe i tryed taht link u gave me and still no luck :s, and bruins, my screen resolution is 1024 x 768 wont go any higher, and i only have one other option and thats 800 x 600, i dont really want to buy a graphics card for my laptop, i dont even think u can do that. but yeah i really want to play it in window it makes it so much easier to navigate etc.

I think the consensus is that you can't use windowed mode unless you can set your screen width HIGHER than 800 pixels.

I see you've already posted here, but this is the thread I'm talking about : http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/vi ... php?t=1798

Did you check to make sure you entered the right info? Archi posted this:

archibalduk wrote:What does the whole of your target box read? It sounds like you didn't add the text correctly, e.g. you overwrote what was originally written in the box.

It should look something like this:
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"C:\Program Files\Games\NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007\ehm2007.exe" -small_screen -windowed
Of course change the above so that it reflects where your copy of EHM is installed.

I don't have this problem so I'm afraid referring you to other people/posts is the best I can do. Hope you get it sorted.

Cheers.

sjsharkz · Post by **sjsharkz** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:44 am

Yeah its the right info, i dont think its gonna work:( o well i tried, thanks for your help though guys <3

Tim

V4ND3RP00L · Post by **V4ND3RP00L** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:09 pm

I noticed that you can't do it unless you actually go above 800 pixels. Which by that time, you can't stand it, because you have to be face to face to see anything on the computer.

Unless of course you have a big monitor, but like most people in this world, we all don't... kind of expensive.

Anyway, I find that using Alt+Tab are just fine!

Post by **CatchUp** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:37 pm

JVanderpool wrote:I noticed that you can't do it unless you actually go above 800 pixels. Which by that time, you can't stand it, because you have to be face to face to see anything on the computer.

Unless of course you have a big monitor, but like most people in this world, we all don't... kind of expensive.

Anyway, I find that using Alt+Tab are just fine!

I thank my lucky stars every day for my Acer 22" Flatpanel. mmmmm.

holydogg · Post by **holydogg** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:23 pm

CatchUp wrote:
JVanderpool wrote:I noticed that you can't do it unless you actually go above 800 pixels. Which by that time, you can't stand it, because you have to be face to face to see anything on the computer.

Unless of course you have a big monitor, but like most people in this world, we all don't... kind of expensive.

Anyway, I find that using Alt+Tab are just fine!

I thank my lucky stars every day for my Acer 22" Flatpanel. mmmmm.

Or two LCDs with a twin-heads ATI or NVIDIA graphic cards

These make big.. BIG desktops

Left Screen TBL, Right screen EHM WHAT A PARADISE!!!

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