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Fun game, peculiar issue
Authored by: TomorrowPlusX on Dec 30, '03 04:48:13PM

I tried the game out -- it's nice. It has, however, a peculiar issue I've seen with a lot of games under 10.3.2 -- when I exit out of fullscreen, and the resolution returns to 1024x768 ( from 800x600 ) I get a black rectangle around the frame of the screen. For reference, I've got a 1st gen PB12", and I'm on panther, obviously.

it's hard to describe -- imagine a rectangle just a little bgger than your screen, not filled but outlined about 5 pixels wide. It surrounds the screen so I can't see it itself, but I can see it's *shadow*. When I do the expose "show desktop" in slo-mo I can see it slide to the top of the screen.

In ActivityMonitor it shows up as UniversalAccessApp. What's the deal with it? I kill it, because it's annoying. But I'd like to know how to avoid it all together.



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Fun game, peculiar issue
Authored by: tstout on Dec 30, '03 09:34:42PM

Sounds like the universal access zoom settings are getting screwed up somehow. Try going into your system prefs.. universal access. Turn on zoom then configure the zoom options to NOT turn on preview rectangle (this sounds like what you're seeing). You can then turn off zoom (unless you use it, of course.)



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Fun game, peculiar issue
Authored by: TomorrowPlusX on Dec 31, '03 09:30:18AM

I'll be damned -- that was it! Thanks, it was getting annoying that every game I played that switched to full-screen 800x600 resulted in the preview rectangle.

Thanks!



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