When I pause and leave pause activated for more than a few seconds, the game will not allow me to unpause itself... Anyon else with this problem?
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Nope... Must be my mistake... I love the game and am still learning.. I am an experienced gamer and somewhat a history buff...but man, this manual is DRY to read..Thanks for your help!
Is it shift-pause to pause the game? I just got the game running last night but the pause button wouldn't work. I'd hi pause/break and I could see 'The game is paused' message briefly flash on the screen and then the game would unpause and go again. I wasn't using shift-pause to pause though. I thought it might have been a problem with my keyboard since I have the Logitech Cordless Keyboard.
I don't know, it's weird . When I first started playing the game, simply hitting Pause/Break didn't unpause the game. Yet yesterday, it started to.
What is shift+pause supposed to do? I just use the 'break' key to pause and unpause.
I think I have the solution for you. 
To pause and unpause the game you just need to use the pause key, nothing else.
However, and this is a bit weird - your message/alerts settings may interrupt with pausing the game.
This is what you do: go to the Menu window and select options and Messages IIRC. In that window you can change how you should be alerted in different situations.
In more detail you can choose to have the info just displayed in the log or not at all and you can also select to have a popup window alert you and that popup window can be set to either pause or not pause the game. Are you with me this far?
All popup windows set to pause will actually _unpause_ the game if it was paused already. Get it? Amazing isn't it?
The solution is, therefore, to make sure you have no popups set to pause the game, because you can do that yourself anyway. Be sure to check that your changes were registered because you have to cajole the game a little to get it done.
There - wasn't that easy?
To pause and unpause the game you just need to use the pause key, nothing else.
However, and this is a bit weird - your message/alerts settings may interrupt with pausing the game.
This is what you do: go to the Menu window and select options and Messages IIRC. In that window you can change how you should be alerted in different situations.
In more detail you can choose to have the info just displayed in the log or not at all and you can also select to have a popup window alert you and that popup window can be set to either pause or not pause the game. Are you with me this far?
All popup windows set to pause will actually _unpause_ the game if it was paused already. Get it? Amazing isn't it?
The solution is, therefore, to make sure you have no popups set to pause the game, because you can do that yourself anyway. Be sure to check that your changes were registered because you have to cajole the game a little to get it done.
There - wasn't that easy?
I second Delirium's post. If you have messages that automatically pause, it's easy to accidently unpause.
My problem is that a 'pause' message comes up just as I am about to pause the game manually. The result: I unpause, because the game thinks I am trying to resume.
I'm sometimes inundated with messages, many which are auto-pause. I like knowing what is going on and if I don't get a popup, I might not spot it in the dialog box at the bottom.
My problem is that a 'pause' message comes up just as I am about to pause the game manually. The result: I unpause, because the game thinks I am trying to resume.
I'm sometimes inundated with messages, many which are auto-pause. I like knowing what is going on and if I don't get a popup, I might not spot it in the dialog box at the bottom.