Q3E Minimizer The Quake 3 Engine Minimizer is a small utility designed to let players temporarily exit out of an active fullscreen game of Quake 3 and return to their desktop, allowing them to immediately return to
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A small utility designed to let players temporarily exit out of an active fullscreen game of Quake 3 The Quake 3 Engine Minimizer is a small utility designed to let players temporarily exit out of an active fullscreen game of Quake 3 and return to their desktop, allowing them to immediately return to the game when they want to. To achieve this, the program actively searches for current instances of any Quake 3 game, and when it finds one, it locks on and allows the player to forcibly minimize it with a hotkey combination bound to their keyboard. In addition, it also features an option to automatically restore the user's default desktop resolution when they minimize the game as well as having it activate automatically on Windows boot-up. The idea/need for Q3E Minimizer came around as result of the fact that all of the Quake 3 Engine games automatically disable alt-tab, which means it's normally quite tricky to exit out of the game and return to one's own desktop quickly. With online messaging programs like MSN and ICQ, this can sometimes be quite an annoying thing. Q3E Minimizer tries to get around this problem by giving the user the ability to forcibly minimize the window at the touch of a hotkey. Features Minimize Q3 Games Quickly At the touch of a button of your choosing, you can minimize any of the main Quake 3 Engine games! When you do this, the entire game window will disappear and the only sign of it will be a small icon in your Windows system tray. Upon pressing another the correct keys, the game will re-appear, maximize to your screen and input control will be returned to you. An amusing side effect to this is that it's possible to be playing a game and then immediately hide it if you do not wish people to know you are playing it. NB: The dudes of UberGames do not condone using any of their software to get away with playing computer games in school class, despite the fact that the developer himself often used it to do just that! Support for many Quake 3 Games Q3E Minimizer has built-in support for the following idTech 3 (ie Quake 3) engine games Supports the following games: -Quake III Arena -Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (SP) -Elite Force Holomatch (MP) -Star Trek: Elite Force II -Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (SP) -Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (MP) -Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (SP) -Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (MP) -Return to Castle Wolfenstein (SP + MP) -Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (SP) -Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (MP) -Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory -Call of Duty (SP) -Call of Duty (MP) -Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K² -Call of Duty: United Offensive (SP) -Call of Duty: United Offensive (MP) -American McGee's Alice -Game Over in Machinimation -Medal of Honor Allied Assault -Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead -Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough -Doom 3ˆ -Quake 4ˆ Dynamic Screen Resolution Modifier A common problem between switching between a game and one's own desktop is if you're playing the game at a lower resolution, when you leave it, it will remain at that lower resolution. Q3E Minimizer tries to account for this using a feature called the Dynamic Screen Resolution Modifier (DSRM). When the DSRM is active, and you minimize out of a game, Q3E Minimizer will restore your resolution to what it was before you started the game. When you minimize back, it will change the resolution back to the game's resolution. The screen resolution change on both counts is registered as 'temporary' to Windows, so if you restart your PC or the game crashes, the resolution will default back to what it was originally! Requirements -Windows ME or higher -Any of the above idTech 3 games -A Windows PC capable of running said game NB: This program was originally developed on Windows ME and in subsequent versions, on Windows XP. As such, it is recommended that this program be run on Windows XP for 100% guranteed functioning.

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