sandboxed programms run in fullscreen? black screen if I try

[Guest]

Hello everyone! I started to like Sandboxie as soon as I stumbled over some information while I was looking to find something that will help me to keep my OS stay "healthy". Good work!

I usually run some programs in sandboxie that are windowed but now I tried to run a few games sandboxed that ended up with a really unexpected black screen.
First thing I thought happened was that the system freezed or sth and i restarted my computer. No mouse, Alt + tab, ctrl + alt + del, nothing I could think off was able to get me back to the desktop.
On my second try I listened to some music on my computer as I was going to run another game sandboxed and the same situation occured but this time I noticed that the music was still playing in the background (=so it's not a full freeze).
I checked a few options and finally set the game to run in windowed mode with changing a value in some ini file that appears to be a possible solution or at least a workaround. (battleshipsforever (Freeware and fun to play a bit ) )

I searched for clues through the forum but was not able to find alot of information on how to get it fullscreen. If I missed something, please be so kind and point me to the topic.
Last thing I tried is to set up a shortcut with a hotkey to /terminate all sandboxed processes but even this did't get that desktop back on my screen.

Unsandboxed games run fullscreened and windowed without problems.
So far it appears that I am not able to run anything fullscreen.

Can somebody give me a hint how to get programms or where to look at to run sandboxed applications in fullscreen?

In the meantime I will investigate this further looking into the video settings...

vista 32bit sp1 (fairly fresh install)
Sandboxie 3.28
nvidia driver v 175.19
using two screens extended


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[tzuk]

I can run fullscreen applications and games and I know other people do as well. Maybe this is related to the two screens, can you try to rule that out as a possible cause?

[Guest]

I can run fullscreen applications and games and I know other people do as well. Maybe this is related to the two screens, can you try to rule that out as a possible cause?

I tried with each of them since they both have different dimensions and this time i got a different result: The programm reported an error and wasn't able to run. I tried with other games and the errors I got look like they might be related to directx in some strange way.

Another thing I noticed is that it seems to make/made a difference to run the game with admin rights in my sandbox.
What confuses me a little bit is this: after that tests I got back to the previous display configuration. I wouldn't like to call it a progress but if I revert back to use both screens and retry to run a game in fullscreen I now get that desktop displayed and was able to hit ctrl + alt +del and even use the mouse getting to that task manager but after killing that task I got my black screen back unable to do anything else as to shut my system down with the powerbutton.
So it still remains a litte bit strange.
I will reinstall directx now and do a few "random" tests... maybe I will find some clues what is going on later.
I will take a look at the user access rights as well.

[tzuk]

Is there any software to manage your multiple monitors? From the graphics card vendor, or from a third party?

[apoptygma]

on 4.05.09 I'm still unable to play some games fullscreen, I belive it to be a problem with the nvidia drivers but I'm not entirely sure how to check. Windowed games work fine. This is on Windows 8x64 with 327.23 Geforce drivers, I've added the options

OpenIpcPath=\Device\PhysicalMemory
OpenWinClass=*

to the sandboxie config.

Neither Red alert 2 or Battlefield 3 will go fullscreen (launching from origin) command and conquer 1 works however, but that's a much older game.