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It sounds like it's depressingly close to true now that consoles are better at multitasking while gaming than PCs are. Steam overlays are only so good. At least
by tgb 13y ago
It sounds like it's depressingly close to true now that consoles are better at multitasking while gaming than PCs are. Steam overlays are only so good. At least most games are now adopting fullscreen-windowed modes so that alt-tabbing isn't an exercise in frustration anymore.
- electromagnetic 13y agoTwo of my favourite game series are very stable to alt-tabbing. The X series, X3: Terran Conflict never gets close on my system just tabbed out of. Same goes for Tropico games. Tropico 4 was open on my computer once and I got through the entire campaign just tabbing out when needed. There's something about those German developers, because my usual greeting to a tabbed out game is "noooo!" I remember leaving X3 running for a weekend and when I got home my wife had tabbed out. It was the first time tabbing out and thinking I'd have lost like 60 hours of auto trading, but no it tabbed right back and didn't even skip a beat to reload graphics. For me, the simple ability to tab out of a game will gurantee me as a player. Total War games seem semi-stable usually just a long reload time every time you do it.