pcompassion

Hi, I'm working on a game for it to be vista compatible.
It obviously works fine on previous OSes including XP.

A user can actually start game and play it but the problem is that when game launches and goes to fullscreen, background windows such as open windows explorer flickers on top of the game screen.

The flicking goes away once the user alt-tabs out and alt-tab back in.

At the same time, when the screen flickers, there are two mouse cursors(original window cursor, and game's modified cursor image).
I can move the window cursor and game's cursor sometimes follows window cursor movements.
When I click mouse button, it seems to click on the flickering background window and goes out to window(same as alt-tab)

Another symptom is that when I run the game in windows mode, there are black bars on the bottom and the right side.


If these questions are not proper to this board, please guide me to the right board/newsgroup.

Thank you.


Re: Application Compatibility for Windows Vista background windows flickers on top of fullscreen application in vista.

Brendan Grant

What kind of graphics is this game using XNA DirectX How you are doing your drawing may be able to point you to the right people as this forum is more for more general Vista compatibility issues such as the joy of running as non-admin.




Re: Application Compatibility for Windows Vista background windows flickers on top of fullscreen application in vista.

pcompassion

It's using DirectX 9.

I didn't develop the program but am looking for informations regarding what could cause the erratic behavior in vista.

Please let me know if I have to get help somewhere else or need to get more info from the people who wrote the *drawing* part of the code.





Re: Application Compatibility for Windows Vista background windows flickers on top of fullscreen application in vista.

Bruce N. Baker - MSFT

The best thing to do it to get in touch the game manufacturer. They may have a patch or service pack for the game or you could try to run the game in windows XP mode by modifying the link that launches the game to use XP compatibility mode.




Re: Application Compatibility for Windows Vista background windows flickers on top of fullscreen application in vista.

pcompassion

Yes, we are the game manufacturer though ;p
Just i'm not so well informed in GDI. and Graphic developers are not so fluent in English ;p




Re: Application Compatibility for Windows Vista background windows flickers on top of fullscreen application in vista.

Bruce N. Baker - MSFT

Does this happen on all installations of VISTA

What is your graphics card your using

Does this problem exist with different graphics card

My first thought is potential issues with the graphics driver.






Re: Application Compatibility for Windows Vista background windows flickers on top of fullscreen application in vista.

pcompassion

Hi,

I've tested two comps.
One has ATI Radeon x1300.
The other has either the same graphic card as above or intel graphic media accelerator x3000.(my home computer and i'm not sure which one it uses)

ATI claims ATI radeon x1300 is vista compliant though.




Re: Application Compatibility for Windows Vista background windows flickers on top of fullscreen application in vista.

Bruce N. Baker - MSFT

Unfortunately, this is beyond my scope to investigate, but I have to say that if it's the same card, then it's incredibly likely it's a driver problem so that is important information. Make sure you have Vista compatible Drivers. Be prepared to share your code or code fragments of what API's you are actually using, etc.

I suggest you contact main support and if you are a partner you can use your partner support to escalate this issue.

Here's the link for general Vista Issues:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/techsupport/default.mspx

It's another link that might help you as well, it has links to news groups and technet.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=423586&SiteID=1