World of Warcraft and ALT-TAB

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Specs:
DFI Infinity rs482
1gb ram
Athlon 64 3000+
XFX Nvidia 6600 extreme

When i run world of warcraft and alt tab to the desktop or any other
application and try to alt tab back into warcraft, it locks and just shows a
black screen with an x button on the top left hand corner. You cannot select
that x button because the mouse and everything else is useless. You can
still alt tab back into other applications (sometimes) and the os doesn't
"completely" lock up.

I haven't tested this out with anything else, being that i hadn't loaded any
other 3d games on my system or anything else as of this time.

Anyone having the same issue and found a solution? Let me know. Thanks!
 
I have not played WoW, but Oblivion, specifically warns against Alt-Tabbing
out of it..

I think it is just a fact of life of how much these games take over the
computer nowadays...
 
Well i was able to alt-tab in WinXP without a hitch. I just think the
swapping from a 3D game might be bugged within Vista. I wasn't sure if
anyone else came with it. If the game says not to, then it probably is for
that reason, but most games i have played have not had problems tabbing out
to check on things or messengers or anything.
 
Consider yourself lucky to get WOW running in Vista, most people are
completely unable to get it working.
 
Vista and XP treat games differently. I know MSFT has been hyping gaming,
and on this beta/non-optomized drivers and OS, my gaming is similar if not
faster(different machine).
Often when I come out of Oblivion, I get an "aurora" screen like booting up
that says "setting up your desktop" or something like that. I think it
unloads a bunch of stuff to allow games to take more control, so ALt-Tab'ing
could be limited.
 
so are you able to play WoW and stuff ON VISTA? thats what i wanna know
before i install it...
 
So you are able to play WoW and all that ON WINDOWS VISTA? thats what i wanna
know before i install it.
 
I Have the same scenario but i cannot Alt tab to anything it does not permit
me to do that. also i have no audio in World or Warcraft no audio what so
ever. but the game does run solid.
 
I Have the same scenario but i cannot Alt tab to anything it does not permit
me to do that. also i have no audio in World or Warcraft no audio what so
ever. but the game does run solid.
 
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