Alt-tabbing in and out of a game

[ViRaLRuSh]

whenever I alt-tab out of World of Warcraft, my system seems to slow down a ton. I have the same res and refresh as my windows settings in the game.
Is there anything that could speed this up? a tweak or something? or just more ram?

I have a p4 3.0 HT with 512 pc3200.

 

[Tiamat]

you are still running the game in the background, so that is completely normal.

 

[biostud]

more ram will help

 

[ChaoZ]

1gb of RAM.

 

[batmang]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
1gb of RAM.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

the game is still running and using all the resources it needs, even if it is not showing on your screen

more ram will help as everyone has mentioned

 

[Vernor]

Not if the game is using 99% of the CPU.

 

[jvarszegi]

Originally posted by: Vernor
Not if the game is using 99% of the CPU.

Unlikely, unless the thread-scheduling priority settings of Windows have been monkeyed with. The default is to give three times the priority to the foreground process. If he's doing much of anything in the foreground, the game won't get 99% (and that's even if RAM is not an issue, which it probably is).

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
1gb of RAM.

My system performs much better when alt tabbed with a GB than it did with 512.

 

[Malak]

Run in windowed mode.