Full Screen - Legacy problem

fotisfotiadis

Hi all

I just discovered that I am unable to run anything in Full Screen using the Legacy back-end, which always used to work fine in my pc (Win 7 machine)

So, if I just run OS 3.3.5, and click the Run fullscreen button. There is no error message, but the window does not appear. When I try to bring the window in the foreground, it seems to flicker a bit, and it disappears.

I have to kill the experiment, to end it.

Here are the console messages:

[2020-11-12 12:49:49,652:process:153:INFO] Starting experiment as ExperimentProcess-3
pygame 1.9.6
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
[2020-11-12 12:49:49,979:legacy:187:INFO] enabling hardware surface
[2020-11-12 12:49:49,979:legacy:196:INFO] enabling double buffering
[2020-11-12 12:49:49,979:legacy:200:INFO] video mode ok
[2020-11-12 12:49:50,597:legacy:185:INFO] sampling freq = 48000, buffer size = 1024
[2020-11-12 12:49:50,597:legacy:188:WARNING] mixer already initialized, closing
[2020-11-12 12:49:51,118:experiment:464:INFO] experiment started
[2020-11-12 12:49:51,118:experiment:468:INFO] disabling garbage collection

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Fotis

sebastiaan

Hi @fotisfotiadis ,

This sounds like a system-specific (and perhaps version-specific) issue that will be difficult to properly fix. As a workaround, though, you could try what happens if you change some of the back-end settings, notably setting either the Hardware surface and/ or Double buffering option to 'no'.

— Sebastiaan

fotisfotiadis

Thank you @sebastiaan for your response.

Unfortunately the issue disappears and re-appears for no obvious reason, and the Hardware surface /Double buffering options didn't work.

But again, thank you for your response!