Maxime Marrow wrote:
> omniverse wrote:
>> Hi Maxime.
>> Have you tried changing Compatibility options? Right-click the program 
>> then
>> select Properties, finally Compatibility tab. You could try setting to 
>> XP,
>> and/or try Disable Themes.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. I started POV-Ray in compatibility mode for 
> Windows XP. I was able to switch VMWware virtual machine in fullscreen, 
> however after I maximized POV-Ray I wasn’t able.
> 
> Next, I started POV-Ray without using compatibility mode and tested 
> DirectDraw from DirectX Diagnostic Tool (dxdiag). It passed the test. 
> Then I maximized POV-Ray and ran the test again. This time it failed:
> 
> “DirectDraw test results: Failure at step 17 (SetDisplayMode to 
> 640x480x16): HRESULT = 0x80004001 (Not implemented)”
> 
> I started POV-Ray again and after that I was able to start DOS-Box in 
> fullscreen. However after I maximized the POV-Ray window (it wasn’t 
> maximized) I wasn’t able. After this I restored the POV-Ray window and 
> tried to run DOS-Box again but it refused to switch to fullscreen.
> 
> I think that I don’t have hallucinations...
> 
> Any ideas what’s the reason for this?
> 
> The video card is ATI Radeon 9600 and it seems to work fine.

In addition to this I found that if POV-Ray is started with 
compatibility settings “Run in 256 colors” and/or “Run in 640 x 480 
screen resolution” then there is no problem to switch other programs to 
fullscreen, even if the POV-Ray window is maximized.

Maxime

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