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Old 11-24-2009, 07:33 PM   #1
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Exclamation 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.

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.
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Old 11-25-2009, 10:24 AM   #2
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Use the Sleep feature to control the framerate of the Aquarium. Eventually there will be a limit framerate feature.
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Old 11-25-2009, 01:13 PM   #3
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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...
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Old 11-25-2009, 02:53 PM   #4
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It's not an unreasonable request. I'll look into it.
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Old 11-25-2009, 06:29 PM   #5
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
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!

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Old 11-26-2009, 06:24 PM   #6
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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.
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