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Kinda weird - software issue?

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Vhyle

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I'm running UO 9th Anniv. on an HP G60 laptop with Vista Ultimate.

When I run UO (the game runs fine, for the record), there will be two separate processes for the game. I noticed this because as the game is running, there's two UOs in the taskbar. I open the task manager, and see there's a separate process for the client, and another one for UO.exe. 9 times out of 10, this will happen. Occasionally, it'll open properly.

It happens in the 'Ultima Online is loading...' screen.

I can close the UO.exe in the task manager, and the game will continue to run fine. After I quit UO, the client itself closes properly, but UO.exe stays open, until I close it in the task manager. THe kicker is that it takes an average of 50% resources at all times. My laptop will be almost at 100% all the time, with the game running, if I don't close the UO.exe process.

Nothing crashes or anything, it's just annoying to close that thing through the task manager all the time. Does this happen to anyone else?
 

DevilsOwn

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you can fix this by changing your windows theme from Vista Aero to Windows basic
 

Kojak

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don't have to do that - just right click uo.exe and go to properties, then the Compatibility tab, then check the checkbox for Disable visual themes
 
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Vhyle

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Hmm, didn't work. I tried that on both the .exe and the client.
 

DevilsOwn

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changing the windows theme didn't work? you can run directly from client and you won't get that little sticky window, I think
 

Lorddog

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i just min all windows when I have the 2 uo ones and then when you max the correct uo window the other goes away.
 
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