The old bug of where the graphics stop but the game seems to still be playing underneath has come back.

I can hear the menus coming up when i hit esc and I can quit though the task manager but seems to be happening mainly on solo play after about 15-20 seconds of a race start.

The Saitek P2500 (or 2600) is really good, I have both and from experience they are pretty indestructible. They have analog sticks if you prefer from d-pad (which they have also) Also really easy to open up and clean should you decide to wash it in a soft drink

You already can use the windowed mode, directly in the configuration screen of the maniaplanet launcher. It should be something like "display mode". Awesome, thanks very much for this tip.... Shows once again that I am just thick and do not explore the config as properly as I should. Now,...

Just thought, perhaps there is a way of doing this already and I am just being thick?

If there is please let me know.

Thanks maniapeeps...

Any chance that if updates and fixes are still being made that the problem I have can be sorted? I have two monitors, I usually browse on one and game on the other, however if I change focus to my browsing monitor, maniaplanet minimises (as its a full screen proggy) Can we have a windowed (fullscree...

You can lower resolution, you can raise it too, just put in values in the resolution width and height boxes. Note that the game must be not fullscreen when you render the video, it didn't go to windowed mode automatically for you as it should? Yes, I did try that and the game was in windowed mode a...

I just cranked everything up to max in the "shoot video" thingy and then spent a long long time uploading it to youtube :) I couldn't work out how to lower the resolution so the video came out at 1680 x 1050, I'd set the video codec to xvid single pass and gave that a quality setting of 2....

Wow, just as I was about to come on and moan about how there were no league replays, constant crashing and a whole lot more suddenly its all fixed

Woohoo, joyful hours of playing ahead

First attempt video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIbSO4-VdkI