Comments on: Rogue, The In-Game Browser

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:31:13 +0000

Aye. I dual-monitor everything and use windowed screens when playing most things. It makes life a lot easier to look something up on Wowhead and then glance over while in the game to make sure I’m doing the right thing.

Honestly, games being able to hook into IM somehow would be way better, simply because the above paragraph is a bald-faced lie and I don’t play WoW; if anything, I just use it as a chat program.

By: TheSombreroKid

TheSombreroKid — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:09:36 +0000

i meant it might crash your pc not get you banned

By: SPEEDCORE

SPEEDCORE — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:31:35 +0000

I have 2 PC’s as well. Lets start a guild!

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:44:39 +0000

I just have two computers. That way my internet stuff has no chance of breaking my gaming.

(Well, I have four computers, to be honest, but I only use two of them on a day to day basis.)

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:08:37 +0000

Yeah, if you have a computer that doesn’t even flinch running Source, you can throw this in your launch options

“-sw -w 1600 -h 1280 -noborder”

Where of course you would use your own desktop resolution. It’ll run the game in what visually appears to be fullscreen, but is actually windowed mode, so you can alt-tab and even have windows on top of the game damn near flawlessly. Of course the game won’t be happy if it’s actively playing and you’re trying to view windows on top of it, but it’s great for checking anything when you’re in menus or pause the game.

By: jonfitt

jonfitt — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:10:06 +0000

If I catch any teammates browsing during a game of L4D they’ll be catching the full force of my scorn. By which I mean my Auto-Shotgun.

It seems like MMO’s are really the only places where this is really useful, because they’re pretty dull at times.

I could see a case for Steam having their chat app hook into Skype/AIM/MSMess etc.

By: Andy F

Andy F — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:31:02 +0000

I’m in the “play in a window” crowd. I have a 1680×1050 monitor, and run WoW at 1440×900 windowed, so I have a bit of space around the edges to keep an eye on things like IM, Gmail, or switch to a browser on long gryphon rides (or when I need to look something up).

For games like WoW this works ok, but for things like Outrun or Half-Life, I’ll be playing full-screen because the pace and intensity of those sorts of games demands more concentration.

By: Naurgul

Naurgul — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:23:56 +0000

Hopefully, the Steam overlay will get this functionality eventually. I hate having a separate application for every little thing. With that said, it’s a good idea.

By: Pags

Pags — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:01:41 +0000

Just play your games windowed. If you’re not really paying that much attention to the game anyway, what’s the point having it in fullscreen?

By: Cooper42

Cooper42 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:46:29 +0000

Or.

Launch from steam, shift+tab and go to the community page and put in whatever page you want…

I would love to have seen FireFox embedded in steam instead…

By: Incolas

Incolas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:26:26 +0000

We have something similar in the works at Xfire (I work at Xfire). It’s working in GW only for now but allows to display youtube while in game for example: http://www.xfire.com/video/44491/.

By: Dolphan

Dolphan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:25:23 +0000

I already run WoW in a window covering half the screen while I watch TV (iplayer etc) in the other half. Two activities that I might get individually bored of manage to keep me entertained in combination.