nedlack Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 Being sat here at 11:51pm with my laptop on and my girlfriend asleep accross the room i realised that i waste a hell of a lot of possible FM playing time by alt-tabbing to a website - usually facebook. and although i could never play FM without alt-tabbing my way around cyber space i do kinda get annoyed that i miss out on so much quality FM time!! the point of this topic is two-fold: ONE to duggest to SI that perhaps a wicked little addition to FM09 would be to put a MSN messenger like blinker on the FM taskbar icon thing to show when the game has finished processing. TWO to ask you fellow FMers what do you Alt-tab to? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedlack Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Being sat here at 11:51pm with my laptop on and my girlfriend asleep accross the room i realised that i waste a hell of a lot of possible FM playing time by alt-tabbing to a website - usually facebook. and although i could never play FM without alt-tabbing my way around cyber space i do kinda get annoyed that i miss out on so much quality FM time!! the point of this topic is two-fold: ONE to duggest to SI that perhaps a wicked little addition to FM09 would be to put a MSN messenger like blinker on the FM taskbar icon thing to show when the game has finished processing. TWO to ask you fellow FMers what do you Alt-tab to? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike7077 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 My computer would would collapse in on itself if I tried to do anything else with it while FM was running. It can barely handle it as it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedlack Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 is that becuase you have so many leagues on the go or just cuz your computer is one of those old BBC type ones? what do you do when the game is processing? i think i would go mad without the release of alt-tab! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick1408 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I alt-tab to the net too but i stay as far away from blogging websites as possible. I tend to stick to sports websites Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I use Mac. Window changing is about 1 billion times easier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedlack Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 so none of you guys have any little gems of a website that will keep me entertained for hours! cuz lets face it my missus isn't doing her job! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by nedlack: so none of you guys have any little gems of a website that will keep me entertained for hours! cuz lets face it my missus isn't doing her job! </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Off Topic Forum mate. Could read that for decades. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I got a laptop purely for FM...while it's doing its thing, I just browse on my desktop... (okie...I lie somewhat...I use my laptop as normal when I'm not playing...like when I'm making a presentation to clients etc...but when I do play, I park near my desktop for the real duo processing cores, multi-task session...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anagain Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by nedlack: Being sat here at 11:51pm with my laptop on and my girlfriend asleep accross the room i realised that i waste a hell of a lot of possible FM playing time by alt-tabbing to a website - usually facebook. and although i could never play FM without alt-tabbing my way around cyber space i do kinda get annoyed that i miss out on so much quality FM time!! the point of this topic is two-fold: ONE to duggest to SI that perhaps a wicked little addition to FM09 would be to put a MSN messenger like blinker on the FM taskbar icon thing to show when the game has finished processing. TWO to ask you fellow FMers what do you Alt-tab to? </div></BLOCKQUOTE> I have very much the same problem. I spend most of my FM time on the net browsing forums and the like and then tell myself I could have played 2 or 3 more games if I hadn't. I think the flashing icon to tell you FM has finished processing is an excellent idea. Might want to suggest it in the suggestions thread. As for a website you might like, well how big of a music addict are you? Do you like finding those obscure new bands that you normally might never hear about? Try LastFM. It's a very good site but if much newly discovered music empties your bank account then please don't blame me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Wizard. Be a man and admit it. We all have a porn site to Alt + Tab to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedlack Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 cheers for the advice anagain, although being a student i dont think LastFM will take much to empty my bank account! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 nedlack - Here's the core sites I visit... SI Community Forums. COD4 Forums. Lyrical Assault (Rap Forums) Brickcity.net (Also Rap Forums) COD4 Clan forums. GTA IV Forums My own website. Myspace Facebook Betfair (+ 2 or 3 other bet sites) OTF Gym Topic FM-Britain (Only for reading purpose) Betting Forum rapworlds.com (Music Forum) Hum*r*n.com (Not exactly a porn site, but funny vids, some porn) break.com - cool videos Youtube watchdance.net (Dancing website) and then things like hotmail etc. Don't really get around to doing much online, me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 nedlack - Here's the core sites I visit... SI Community Forums. COD4 Forums. Lyrical Assault (Rap Forums) Brickcity.net (Also Rap Forums) COD4 Clan forums. GTA IV Forums My own website. Myspace Facebook Betfair (+ 2 or 3 other bet sites) OTF Gym Topic FM-Britain (Only for reading purpose) Betting Forum rapworlds.com (Music Forum) Hum*r*n.com (Not exactly a porn site, but funny vids, some porn) break.com - cool videos Youtube watchdance.net (Dancing website) and then things like hotmail etc. Don't really get around to doing much online, me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nedlack Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 you like your forums then! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by nedlack: you like your forums then! </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Racked up about 20,000 posts over all the forums Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doyle Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I alt tab to this site! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauvner Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 This site & the BBC sports pages do me fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mravac Kid Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I don't alt-tab, I run the game in a full-screen-sized window. Usually I run the game while checking the forums (for FM and Mount&Blade) and occasional LiveJournal or DeviantArt check. Lately I've even started watching anime while the game calculates stuff on occasion... Bless this mighty P4 2.8GHz which allows that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedclough Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I'm very surprised that no one alt-tabs to a left-handed website My pc is way to slow to browse t'internet and play at the same time, so i play solitaire, with vegas rules and cumulative score Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopper99 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I don't ALT+TAB as I run the game in full screen mode but what I tend to browse while playing FM depends on whether the missus is in the house with me or not One good thing I have learned to utilise is the auto-continue. This is very useful when playing on-line poker while FM is running. I have the game on auto-continue so that it will just process through to the next match while I'm playing on-line poker. I'll then wait until I've folded my poker hand and flick back to FM to set up my team for the next game. I never bother reading forums and such like while playing FM, I only bother with one forum anyway which is this one and I'm only on here during work hours. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboyjohnmulhern Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 i press windows start button on keyboard, not alt tab, but i when i do minimised fm, its to go on this website, or bbc sport normally Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 My laptop isn't connected to the internet and can't really handle much else open with FM. I always have Task manager open though just so that I can Alt Tab out if I want to open another program. Only other thing I generally Alt Tab to is Word or more usually Notepad if I am writing an FMS story for my current game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcormack Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by fatboyjohnmulhern: i press windows start button on keyboard, not alt tab, but i when i do minimised fm, its to go on this website, or bbc sport normally </div></BLOCKQUOTE> this is how do it and when FM finishes processing it does tell you in a way. on my comp when it has finished processing or saving the screen kinda does something funny like you've just minimized something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboyjohnmulhern Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 yep. spot on. hence forth i do it that way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pouncer Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by gcormack: <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by fatboyjohnmulhern: i press windows start button on keyboard, not alt tab, but i when i do minimised fm, its to go on this website, or bbc sport normally </div></BLOCKQUOTE> this is how do it and when FM finishes processing it does tell you in a way. on my comp when it has finished processing or saving the screen kinda does something funny like you've just minimized something. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah same, it sort of alters itself for some reason on mine. Usually I'm flicking over to bbc.co.uk, or here, Bebo (More out of routine than pleasure lol), Hotmail, or MSN. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunner Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 I play in windowed mode, so I just click the windows at the bottom. Kind of gets annoying when you're talking to someone on msn who won't shut up during the FA Cup Final though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
This field intentionally l Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 I don't Alt-tab; I have two monitors. I usually have Eclipse (Java IDE), WMP and Firefox on the other monitor. Still, I'd like FM to emit a beep or something once its done grinding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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