Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:57:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: ALT + TAB Freezes Program
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 juhnker AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

> I am having the same problem, but only when I am
> playing games that use the whole screen.
> Specifically Diablo, Starcraft, And Unreal ( reg
> and Tourn )  This is the only time I have the
> problem, and it is driving me crazy.

As I wrote earlier in this thread, Windows stops sending timer
interrupts to a program in background, or at least sends them at a
much slower rate.  Perhaps the games which have this problem grab the
timer and depend on it.