POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Weird problem : Re: Weird problem Server Time
19 May 2024 16:11:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Weird problem  
From: Maxime Marrow
Date: 13 Feb 2008 10:45:57
Message: <47b310b5$1@news.povray.org>
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, 

> 
> 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:
> 


> 
> I started POV-Ray again and after that I was able to start DOS-Box in 


> tried to run DOS-Box again but it refused to switch to fullscreen.
> 

> 

> 
> 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 


fullscreen, even if the POV-Ray window is maximized.

Maxime


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