Windowed mode can't be minimized

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A small gripe, but it's a bit irritating:

If you play Fullscreen, the game can be minimized but it won't "tidy up" -- reset brightness, etc. Also, getting back into the game sometimes causes a crash.

If you play in windowed mode, the game won't crash, but it also won't minimize. You can Alt-Tab to other open windows, but there's no way to get to your desktop, which I often want to do. I have to entirely quit the game to get there.

As I say, a small gripe, but most professional games are a bit more well-behaved than this these days.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It works great.

If you play in windowed mode at a resolution matching your desktop rez, it's superficially exactly the same as fullscreen, except you can press your "Windows" key to bring up the taskbar and bring up other program windows on top of it without alt-tabbing out (which Galciv sometimes doesnt recover from).

If you want the game in a "floating" window to move around on your desktop, you need to set it at some size smaller than your desktop resolution.