How do I switch out of a full-screen game?

spyky

I'm a recent switcher (1.25 15" PB). Actually I'm not entirely a switcher, I haven't used Windows in several years, but I am making the new Mac my primary machine, and making my desktop Linux box very jealous. I used to use windows to play games like Starcraft and Diablo. I decided to purchase WCIII and NWN when I bought my new Mac on the recommendations of friends. However, there is one thing that I don't know how to do on my new Mac that really annoys me.



When I am playing either of these games, and say, an iChat comes in, I want to be able to switch applications so I can respond to the iChat, without exiting the game. In Windows (many years ago) this was accomplished by pressing alt-tab to switch applications. On my Mac I have tried Command-tab; it has no effect while running the game. I have also tried Option-Command-Tab but it exits WCIII entirely without even giving me the option of saving.



Can anyone help me out?



-Spyky

aquatic

Hit the Windows key. Oh wait, nevermind. That's ****ing annoying anyway when some jackass messages you in the middle of a game, just to interrupt you. Or if you accidentally hit the Windows key. Why the hell do PC users need a key to press a menu for them? And they think MACS are for morons.

luca

Some games allow you to hide the game by pressing command-H. Try that out sometime. (pause first!)



And log off when you play games! Otherwise people IM you, it's really annoying.

not unlike myself

For NWN on PC you can change an ini file...

"Neverwinter Nights doesn't have any documentation regarding running in windowed rather than full-screen mode. If you'd like to, the pertinent commands are setting fullscreen=0 and AllowWindowedMode=1 in your nwn/nwn.ini file. Thanks go out to LinuxWorld , specifically Mr. Joe Bar for the assist."



Good luck!

placebo

CMD-H works in most games, but in some games, like Warcraft III, you have to press CMD-M to wondow it, and then hide it.