Spaces and FULL screen games

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Spaces and FULL screen games

Hey guys,

I just bought Leopard and was excited when I found out Spaces. However, I was really disappointed when I played Warcraft 3 in full screen (actual full screen) and Spaces would not work. I could not switch screens or anything until I moved the game to a window view. I guess this isn't anything new, as with Tiger I could not use the f buttons to view all windows. I don't know if any of you guys have a fix or workaround for this. Any help/input is appreciated.

Thanks!

Macbook Pro 15" 2.16 GHz Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Oct 27, 2007 12:50 AM

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Answer 1

s.m.t.

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Oct 31, 2007 5:28 AM in response to No1nfoProvided

I too was hoping spaces would work in full screen games...

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Answer 2

Oct 31, 2007 7:32 AM in response to No1nfoProvided

I would like some help with this topic as well. It is very difficult to search for "spaces" help since it is a general word. I saw many demos of Leopard and spaces before the release of World of Warcraft in its own space and even receiving live updates when in birds eye view. I have been unable to find any support of this in the retail release. I have found many people saying games like Warcraft III and World of Warcraft in fullscreen not working with spaces.

Can someone please help, or confirm they advertised this then didn't include it, or will update soon to fix the issue enabling it?

Thank you.

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Answer 3

Oct 31, 2007 7:44 AM in response to Dan123456

In case people got confused about my post. I left out a comma in one sentence. Before the release of Leopard, I saw demos where World of Warcraft was used in space 4 and other apps in spaces 1-3. Steve Jobs was able to jump around between them all as well as view live updates in all 4 from bird's eye view.

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Oct 31, 2007 8:20 AM in response to Dan123456

Even in the Leopard demos, the games are not run in full screen. Unfortunately, Spaces seems to be locked down when I run my games in full screen, but the thing is that with the space you have on a typical Mac screen, I guess they expect users to be OK running games in windows.

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s.m.t.

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Oct 31, 2007 8:27 AM in response to No1nfoProvided

it may just be a limitation of full screen apps... I can't find any other possible work around...

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Answer 6

Oct 31, 2007 8:43 AM in response to No1nfoProvided

I can only speak for World of Warcraft, but it's possible to play it in full screen, and still have Spaces.

In WoW, go to your Video settings, and choose to run the game in Windowed Mode. Underneath that checkbox is another, to run the game in Full Screen Mode (or something like that, if forget the exact wording). Check off both of those boxes, and WoW will appear to be running in full screen mode, but you can still use the Spaces keys to jump to another space. Works great for me.

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s.m.t.

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Oct 31, 2007 10:14 AM in response to No1nfoProvided

The game in question for me is Sims2. I will give that a try! 🙂

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s.m.t.

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Oct 31, 2007 3:01 PM in response to s.m.t.

There doesn't appear to be an option to run sims 2 in a window...

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s.m.t.

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Oct 31, 2007 3:02 PM in response to s.m.t.

There doesn't appear to be an option to run sims 2 in a window...

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Pooey

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Nov 7, 2007 3:39 PM in response to Donald Roeber

Beautiful. The Windowed Mode/Maximized setting DOES work with Spaces. Thank you so much for that option. Now I can switch between full screen and Thottbot in a split-second. Beautiful.

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Nov 10, 2007 12:38 PM in response to Donald Roeber

Hey guys,

So what happens with WoW once you have both of those clicked? Does that mean it is as big as it can be with the Finder top bar and everything still there? I personally never have played WoW, but I'll check to see if there's the same option for Warcraft 3. For the Sims 2, all you have to do is press command + m to have the program run in windowed mode. That has worked for me in the Sims 2, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. So I'm guessing that will work in any full screen app.

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