Help with Bug

[Nexic]

Hey guys. There is a bug in Desperate Space that seems to be caused by people Alt-Tabbing out of the game whilst in the middle of a level on some systems. Could some of you download a copy of the demo (link in sig) and try this. Also try things like Alt-Esc if you don't mind.

If something odd happens (like all the ships disappearing and your own ship moving to the edge of the screen) can you tell me your system specs and whatever programs you had running at the time (firewalls, anti virus etc).

I think for some people this problem can happen even if the user doesn't hit alt-tab, but I'm hoping fixing the Alt-tab version should fix all other occurences of the same thing.

Thanks!

[Nexic]

Doh... I've worked it out, man I'm dumb. The millisecs counter keeps counting whilst the game is alt-tabbed, even though the program isn't running, thus causing everythign to suddenly LEAP forward because of the timing functions. This is probably the cause of most of the bugs in Xeno Assault too.....

God I'm an idiot.

[BantamCityGames]

I had this problem on early alpha versions of Invadazoid, but eventually figured it out.

[Black Hydra]

I thought I mentioned that in my e-mail to you?

Yeah, I use a function GetTime() which counts the milliseconds minus all of the time spent while pausing.

I hated when I took the screenshots from my demo I looked at the time and 3 minutes had flew off even though the game was minimized. Usually not an issue, but it makes me feel like my precious 30 minutes were spent playing!