'workaround' for inability to save in N2002

Someone posted a way to 'save' your game by putting it in hibernation mode a while back, but that only works if you don't plan on using your computer for anything til you wanna play again... I dunno too much about this, but from what I can tell the latest NVIDIA drivers come with a little control panel applet called "NVIDIA nView Desktop Manager", and in this program you can set up virtual desktops, as well as hotkeys to switch between the desktops.. and i've found that I can pause the game, hit ctrl+alt+n (my hotkey for switching desktops), and i'll be back at a clean desktop, with N2002 still running in the other 'desktop'. I can then switch back to N2002 whenever I want..and it works perfectly...though I haven't tested this long term at all. This seems to work alright.. i notice it uses about 10% of CPU resources, and like 80M of RAM... but it would work alright if you just wanna do some word processing, or do some light web surfing.. Plus I only have a pIII-500 with 256 RAM... a higher end machine may be able to pull this off without any performance hit.

if you play in full screen, just hit ALT+TAB to switch to another program or your desktop. doing that will minimize the full screen application/game and allow you to do other things including hibernate. On Fri, 31 May 2002 11:05:02 -0600, "Mike" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Someone posted a way to 'save' your game by putting it in hibernation mode a >while back, but that only works if you don't plan on using your computer for >anything til you wanna play again... > >I dunno too much about this, but from what I can tell the latest NVIDIA >drivers come with a little control panel applet called "NVIDIA nView Desktop >Manager", and in this program you can set up virtual desktops, as well as >hotkeys to switch between the desktops.. and i've found that I can pause the >game, hit ctrl+alt+n (my hotkey for switching desktops), and i'll be back at >a clean desktop, with N2002 still running in the other 'desktop'. I can then >switch back to N2002 whenever I want..and it works perfectly...though I >haven't tested this long term at all. > >This seems to work alright.. i notice it uses about 10% of CPU resources, >and like 80M of RAM... but it would work alright if you just wanna do some >word processing, or do some light web surfing.. Plus I only have a pIII-500 >with 256 RAM... a higher end machine may be able to pull this off without >any performance hit.

Except if you're running N2K2 in OpenGL "twenty-four" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > if you play in full screen, just hit ALT+TAB to switch > to another program or your desktop. doing that will > minimize the full screen application/game and allow > you to do other things including hibernate. > > On Fri, 31 May 2002 11:05:02 -0600, "Mike" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Someone posted a way to 'save' your game by putting it in hibernation

mode a > >while back, but that only works if you don't plan on using your computerfor > >anything til you wanna play again... > > > >I dunno too much about this, but from what I can tell the latest NVIDIA > >drivers come with a little control panel applet called "NVIDIA nViewDesktop > >Manager", and in this program you can set up virtual desktops, as well as > >hotkeys to switch between the desktops.. and i've found that I can pausethe > >game, hit ctrl+alt+n (my hotkey for switching desktops), and i'll be backat > >a clean desktop, with N2002 still running in the other 'desktop'. I canthen > >switch back to N2002 whenever I want..and it works perfectly...though I > >haven't tested this long term at all. > > > >This seems to work alright.. i notice it uses about 10% of CPU resources, > >and like 80M of RAM... but it would work alright if you just wanna dosome > >word processing, or do some light web surfing.. Plus I only have apIII-500 > >with 256 RAM... a higher end machine may be able to pull this off without > >any performance hit. >

i think youre right. in that case, you would have to run it windowed in OGL. my puter is rather slow so i'm running D3D. with OGL you could run a windowed 1024x768 screen size to allow the alt+tab switch. On Fri, 31 May 2002 10:24:45 -0700, "Bob G" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Except if you're running N2K2 in OpenGL

OGL is quicker if you have a Geforce card on any PC, if the card is tweaked right that is ... Phillip "twenty-four" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > i think youre right. in that case, you would have to > run it windowed in OGL. my puter is rather slow so > i'm running D3D. with OGL you could run a windowed > 1024x768 screen size to allow the alt+tab switch. > > On Fri, 31 May 2002 10:24:45 -0700, "Bob G" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Except if you're running N2K2 in OpenGL >

other than Doom II and Ms Fltsim, ive never done much gaming on the PC's i've owned. my primary use is internet and work. i thought it was overkill to buy a Nvidia TNT2 32meg card for this home built machine a little while back but i didnt anticipate being into NR2002 or its hardware requirements. my processor is also too slow for this game and when i upgrade i'll go as high as possible, which means a new mainboard. i enjoy the game but i dont relish the upgrade job ahead of me. :\ On Fri, 31 May 2002 14:59:57 -0400, "Phillip Malphrus Jr" <[email hidden]> wrote: >OGL is quicker if you have a Geforce card on any PC, if the card is tweaked >right that is ... > >Phillip

Sorry Alan, this only works if you use D3D. Most of us hardcore simmers use the faster (to us) OpenGL API and the alt-tab functionality does not work with it... "twenty-four" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > if you play in full screen, just hit ALT+TAB to switch > to another program or your desktop. doing that will > minimize the full screen application/game and allow > you to do other things including hibernate. > > On Fri, 31 May 2002 11:05:02 -0600, "Mike" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Someone posted a way to 'save' your game by putting it in hibernation

mode a > >while back, but that only works if you don't plan on using your computerfor > >anything til you wanna play again... > > > >I dunno too much about this, but from what I can tell the latest NVIDIA > >drivers come with a little control panel applet called "NVIDIA nViewDesktop > >Manager", and in this program you can set up virtual desktops, as well as > >hotkeys to switch between the desktops.. and i've found that I can pausethe > >game, hit ctrl+alt+n (my hotkey for switching desktops), and i'll be backat > >a clean desktop, with N2002 still running in the other 'desktop'. I canthen > >switch back to N2002 whenever I want..and it works perfectly...though I > >haven't tested this long term at all. > > > >This seems to work alright.. i notice it uses about 10% of CPU resources, > >and like 80M of RAM... but it would work alright if you just wanna dosome > >word processing, or do some light web surfing.. Plus I only have apIII-500 > >with 256 RAM... a higher end machine may be able to pull this off without > >any performance hit. >

run OGL windowed to your screen resolution. On Fri, 31 May 2002 21:05:04 GMT, "SimRacer" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Sorry Alan, this only works if you use D3D. Most of us hardcore simmers use >the faster (to us) OpenGL API and the alt-tab functionality does not work >with it...