Sliptip on 29/1/2011 at 15:35
It's really not huge problem by any means, but for some reason everytime I optimize in Dromed (causing the little DOS window to pop open), Dromed will minimize on completion.
Since I am often optimizing every few seconds it starts to get really annoying.
I'm not sure if it's related, but it started happening after I installed my new video card which required DDFix. Dromed is also the only program this seems to happens with.
I'm using Windows XP and an ATI Radeon HD2600 (Catalyst verion 9.4)
Yandros on 29/1/2011 at 16:19
It does it for me too, probably since I installed DDFix as well. Since I don't optimize all that often it's never really bugged me that much, but I can see how it might.
Haplo on 29/1/2011 at 22:45
Yes. If you have DDFix installed and go to the game mode and back to the edit mode, any subsequent optimisation will minimize DromEd. It would not happen if you have not gone in the game mode yet.
Sliptip on 29/1/2011 at 23:07
Yeah I was just noticing that actually. . . Errg I'm going to have to get out of the habit of optimizing it seems.
Thanks for the input fellas - at least I know it's not just me
Haplo on 30/1/2011 at 05:57
Quote Posted by Sliptip
Yeah I was just noticing that actually. . . Errg I'm going to have to get out of the habit of optimizing it seems.
Thanks for the input fellas - at least I know it's not just me
You don't need to optimize every time. Optimize once and only portalize afterwards. Optimizing the first time creates the necessary optimization hints and turns on a certain flag called 'optimize_bsp'. This causes all subsequent portalizes to optimize by default (you can see the line "All future level builds will be "optimized", until you disable 'optimize_bsp'" in monolog.txt).
Portalize does not minimize DromEd, and is faster because it does not create the hints.
But if you really want to optimize every time, here's a workaround: You might have noticed that after returning from game mode switching to any other application minimizes DromEd. When you optimize DromEd momentarily opens a console application (probably CSMERGE.EXE) and then closes it, therefore switching to some other application. Because of this DromEd minimizes itself afterwards. To avoid this start the optimization, wait for the console application to open and close, and then click on DromEd on the taskbar. DromEd won't minimize itself after the optimization is finished.
