MrBill wrote:
Any hint as to what was changed w/ this patch?
Well, for me on a Windows XP SP1 box with Nvidia GF4 and DirectX 9b, it killed my ability to ALT-TAB out to the desktop, which is a fairly important feature for myself, most importantly because I run the Zone Alarm firewall, which when a new .exe runs (as with a new patch), asks if you want to allow it network access.
So... after connecting for the first time, the only way out was to power cycle the PC.
Workaround is to switch to windowed mode to allow the access, then switch back to full screen.
To the developers: anything I can do to help debug, lemme know. Not part of the beta test, but glad to help if I can.
P.S. On a related note, should we be patching whenever we see a new version, or should we wait until we either see a problem or the client refuses to connect?
In other words, is there any enforcement from the server that you need to be at a particluar version (I've seen some posts regarding incompatibility issues, etc) when you connect?