BUG: OS Power State Compliance
 

Let me just start out with a positive statement, that this is a very promising product, and I look forward to the future plans and releases. :cool:

BUG: When the monitor goes to sleep, the screensaver does not sleep it graphics display, thus not complying with the OS’s low power state, and instead persisting a higher power state. This statement is based on the application maintaining a high CPU usage. Over time, of course, this actually makes the screensaver expensive. :erm:

Use the Sleep feature to control the framerate of the Aquarium. Eventually there will be a limit framerate feature.

I think if the computer's turned the monitor off it's not unreasonable to expect the screen-saver to stop doing all the 3D stuff...

It's not an unreasonable request. I'll look into it.

Hopefully this will save you some time, so you can enjoy Thanksgiving instead of working on MA3... ;-)

Check out the WM_SYSCOMMAND notification and the SC_MONITORPOWER message.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

Hope this helps!

~Ralph S.

Back in the Win95 days when I was first writing the Aquarium, those messages were notoriously unreliable, which is probably one reason I never pursued the whole shutdown thing. Also, it's a very "screensaver" issue, and I never thought of this simulation as a screensaver.