Multiple screens - extra clients exiting.

[Lyonheart]

Hopefully my problem is related to OP, not trying to derail thread!


I had a similar problem with windows closing or not swapping correctly once they opened and had a character logged in.

I used Lax's walkthrough for ISBoxer FTL in RIFT, set it up for two clients on two screens on one computer. Window swapping worked like a charm when first setup halfway thru the final beta session, then stopped working completely shortly afterwards.

Clicking the second window would cause it to disappear, but the sound would still be playing like it was still the foreground window, but no taskbar thing to click and bring it back, and not even showing in the alt-tab menu (I don't think it was there, I tried everything I could think of to find that missing window).
I tried every option combo there is in the "Window Layout" menus inside ISBoxer, but never got them back to swapping the way my WoW windows always did, putting the “hot” window in the main area while saving the other window in the second area and keeping that second window open, running and clickable.

The best I could get, less than an hour before the end of beta, was for the windows to be locked in their frames, never moving but still becoming the focused window (sound, mouse, char mvmt via keypresses) when I clicked on that window, and successfully changing focus to the second window when I clicked on that one. This would work once or twice: then when clicking to switch windows, the main window would place itself on the part of my display that was not part of the ISBoxer “regions” for window placement, resize itself to that screen while retaining the wrong aspect ratio, and cease to accept window swapping requests at all. It would remain clickable, which only allowed me to easily close it and try again.

I even deleted the character set, and the window layout that was generated through the wizard, and started over from a clean slate, but I had the same issue with the windows not swapping correctly right from the start.

I’m hoping someone (Lax? J) will see this and have a suggestion on how to fix it. The live client is different from the beta, since there was a full re-download so maybe this won’t be an issue anymore
*crosses fingers*

I had the same issue. Al through beta, every team i made, the regions swapped perfect. One day i logged in and they had behavior like what you describe. Now i had not changed any settings in game or ISBoxer, so i thought the game had patched something and screwed me up. Lax told me to check and make sure each instance of Rift was in window mode. Sure enough, after hours of deleting teams, making many different window layouts and pulling my hair out (NERD RAGE!!), the game had in fact changed back to full screen mode! OMG i felt like a dumb ass! But Lax saved the day again!

Whats funny is, every time I have an issue with ISBoxer, i log into isboxer chat and explain my issue and Lax has some very simple fix that I should have thought of myself ( i never do ) I imagine what hes thinking when he sees me enter the chat room " OMG, heres Lyon again, hes going to nerd rage about how he cant get something working again and that his life is now ruined! Ill tell him to make sure caps lock is not turned on..ill get a few minute pause and he will come back and tell me thats was it and I'm his Hero!"