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Lately (past few weeks), whenever I play a video game, then quit, Aero doesn't seem to like sticking around anymore!
For example, I was playing something an hour or so ago, and just now when I was writing a comment on a question here, I decided it had no value, and so closed the tab. The JS message box telling me I was closing the tab turned aero off.
I... wait what, Why? So, as usual, I grab a command prompt and type: "Net stop UxSms && Net start UxSms" to restart the dwm, and it pops back up again. However, all is not well, if I switch windows, or open another (in this case an explorer window), bam, I'm back with basic.
If I reboot, everything is fine, and aero sticks around whatever I do (until, of course, something like a game turns it off - then we're back to where we started).
Any help? Troubleshooting steps I should take to resolve such issues in the future?
The title in question was Fallout 3 (didn't want to name names in the post to avoid any potential "VIDEO GAMES! CLOSE!" reactions), and checking tasklist reveals it has, indeed, closed normally. Power Plan is on "High-Performance." Drivers were last updated... a few weeks ago, actually, but from ATI's support site :\ – Phoshi – 2009-10-20T16:50:21.323
Phoshi - The video driver may not "instruct" clearly that the 3D app has quit. Update to the latest Catalyst drivers ( 9.9, I belive). The title in question runs pretty fine on my laptop with an nVidia 8600m GT, so I'm inclined to believe its a driver problem – Sathyajith Bhat – 2009-10-20T17:41:20.843
F3 does tend to crash alot, so it could be that - I have mainly been playing it recently. – Phoshi – 2009-10-20T18:01:06.733
installing the drivers again did the trick, it appears. Same version, so no idea why! Thanks :) – Phoshi – 2009-10-20T18:15:37.420