[quote]Originally posted by jameyhammock:
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That's a cop-out. Call it what you want, but the game doesn't interact properly with the OS. It also has issues with repainting the screen while it's doing other processing. Were these design decisions? Maybe. But I'd argue they weren't necessary good ones...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm not saying this is a design decision, this is how the software works. A design decision would be Markus
wanting the program to do this or that, in this case it is a display issue possibly still related to the switch to the Windowed mode option in a OOTP3 patch. Maybe Markus would have avoided any screensaver conflicts if he would have kept the game at full screen mode only, but I think most users are happy the game has the windowed mode option.
I'm not trying to belittle this complaint anyway, but IMO screensavers are not really vital enough computer software to even bother "copping out" over
. There is a related issue though and that is the powersave conflicts
. It is possible that if Markus can solve the XP powersave video conflicts that this would correct screen saver issues as well.