Warcraft III & Diablo II Errors

[Mephisto]

For some reason all of the sudden whenever I load Warcraft III or Diablo II the game loads, but when I switch to it to play on it it automatically minimizes.  So basically when I click on the game in the task bar it just reminimizes disallowing me from playing. 

[UserLoser.]

Seems like something isn't allowing fullscreen applications to be ran?  Can you run Diablo II in window mode (append "-w" to the end of command-line on Game.exe)?  Do you have Netmeeting running (afaik, this doesn't allow fullscreen apps to actually take up the whole screen)?

[Mephisto]

Well, before I tried your solutions I did a reboot (after troubleshooting a few other things which didn't work), and it fixed the problems.  I have to wonder if it'll happen again though.  :p

[Mephisto]

Blah, it's doing it again; running Diablo II in windowed mode works fine, but not in full screen (and I don't think WAR3 support windowed mode).  Any ideas?

[Meh]

Warcraft 3 does support window mode. I think u need to create a shortcut and add -window at the end. I think. It can be done as i use do doit.

[UserLoser.]

Warcraft 3 does support window mode. I think u need to create a shortcut and add -window at the end. I think. It can be done as i use do doit.

Right, but applications do not need to have a shortcut to supply additional commandl line arguments

[Mephisto]

Well it runs in windowed mode as well; interestingly enough running WAR3 with opengl allows it to work, but once I minimize it won't let me go back to it, I'd have to re-run the exe, but running in DirectX mode doesn't work at all.

[tA-Kane]

That, my friend, could be a graphics card problem.

My mom has a GeForce 4 MX 440 PCI. It rocked until suddenly, no DirectX games worked. Then one day, I noticed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was still working and found out that it uses OpenGL.

I contacted the manufacturer of the card, being that I had been trying to resolve the issue for weeks (this is three to four years ago). They said it's a card fault, and that I should send it back to them under the warranty... but, the warranty had just expired and I had no money to replace the card with, so I was totally screwed.

I still wonder if putting a new graphics card in her system would resolve the issue.