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FINALLY
I would just like to say thank you devs for FINALLY fixing the focus problem. Now, when I update Vendetta and launch it, the ZoneAlarm window appears above the Vendetta window and gains focus. As of 1.1.8.3, the ZoneAlarm window was invisible below the Vendetta window and neither had focus, resulting in a situation where I could not interact with anything on the computer. Now, the ZoneAlarm window gets focus and appears on top. This fixes my biggest complaint ever with the Windows version of VO. Now don't change any of the focus code again. Ever. :D
Funny. I didn't change anythign related to that as far as I know.
Ah that's too funny, but at least we know it was something involving ZoneAlarm. I used to have a similar problem with Norton, many patches ago. I used to have to hit the Windows key to drop out of VO and chase down the firewall alert box after running VO right after a patch. I haven't had the problem since I upgraded to 2005.
Any chance you upgraded your firewall software?
Any chance you upgraded your firewall software?
I've had this same issue with my firewall- it pops up and freezes the game, or rather, it would pop up yet be invisible for some odd reason. It wouldn't have focus either, but I learned two ways to get around it.
1) Alt-Tab twice to give it focus, then I used a list of keystrokes I memorized to authorize port access.
2) I have some other program besides VO running (anything that has a taskbar presence), and for some reason this causes the alert popup to appear on top of the game with focus. I have no idea why this works, but it does. Even Notepad does the trick.
1) Alt-Tab twice to give it focus, then I used a list of keystrokes I memorized to authorize port access.
2) I have some other program besides VO running (anything that has a taskbar presence), and for some reason this causes the alert popup to appear on top of the game with focus. I have no idea why this works, but it does. Even Notepad does the trick.
I didn't upgrade ZoneAlarm... And mine's behavior was much worse than yours. Literally neither had focus. I couldn't alt-tab or press the start button to give either one focus, either. I know that it wasn't frozen, because I could still see animations in vendetta. However, the mouse pointer in VO would get stuck and sometimes the ZoneAlarm window would "flicker" between being on top and being below the Vendetta fullscreen window. But it works now, and that's all that matters.