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Pre 0.23.5 I could turn on the engines and leave a ship to complete a burn while I go on reddit and then come back a few minutes later and the burn will be finished, but now if I tab out of KSP the simulation freezes so no matter how long I leave it the ship hasn't budged... Why has this changed?! :mad:

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I believe it has something to do with the way Unity does full-screen graphics - that is, if it can't actually find the screen real estate it's supposed to work with (as in you alt-tabbed away from a full-screen application), it pauses until it gets the screen back.

Try switching KSP to a windowed view. That works for me.

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Yep, like DeMatt said (window mode). This has come up on a bunch of threads. If I recall, someone said it might be a new "feature," although the "simulate in background" option apparently isn't working.

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It's activated as a command-line argument. For the Steam version you right-click KSP in your games list and go to properties->set launch options, and put -popupwindow into the field.

For non-steam or general installs you make a shortcut to ksp.exe and right-click on it, then you add -popupwindow to the end of the Target field. i.e. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Kerbal Space Program\KSP.exe" -popupwindow

Edit: Apparently you can do it in the Launcher app too. Click the run in frameless window option in the Advanced tab.

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It's activated as a command-line argument. For non-steam or general installs you make a shortcut to ksp.exe and right-click on it, then you add -popupwindow to the end of the Target field. i.e. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Kerbal Space Program\KSP.exe" -popupwindow

Awesome! Maybe this will fix another problem I'm having. I've seen this option posted before, but didn't realize it made the window borderless.

Thanks!

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I noticed this too. Has it changed recently with the Unity upgrade perhaps?

Pretty sure in older versions in full screen, you could Atl-Tab to desktop and the game would still be running in the background.

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I noticed this too. Has it changed recently with the Unity upgrade perhaps?

Pretty sure in older versions in full screen, you could Atl-Tab to desktop and the game would still be running in the background.

Yep, it changed recently. Although it's unclear to me if it's a Unity change or a KSP change. I believe a one of the mod's said they'd look into it.

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