Pause

[gamer juice]

in both serious sam the first encounter and second encouter classic if you tab out a big "PAUSE" thing appears on your screen when you tab back in, i cant figure out how to get rid of that, any of you guys know?w

[Melissa]

Press the Pause key on your keyboard. (Pause/Break)

[gamer juice]

Originally posted by Scratch~:

Press the Pause key on your keyboard. (Pause/Break)

where the hell is that

[Solais]

Should be near the F12 key, along with Print Screen and Scroll Lock. Above the Insert, Home and Page Up trio.

Angelo, maybe we should move it to P. :P

[Melissa]

Laptop keyboards often don't have the Pause button, yeah. Seems like the Pause button has become kind of a deprecated thing that nobody uses anymore and people don't know what it does, which is interesting.

[Owlet VII]

Maybe you could make it bindable in the keyboard settings?

[Melissa]

Originally posted by Owlet VII:

Maybe you could make it bindable in the keyboard settings?

Done and done.

[gamer juice]

Originally posted by Scratch~:

Originally posted by Owlet VII:

Maybe you could make it bindable in the keyboard settings?

Done and done.

thanks, im on a laptop anyways.

[Funny Rat]

you may have the button, my laptop has it as an Fn thing under page up key and this laptop is like 3 years old. And this always confused me as a kid XD took me years to figure out how to unpause the game after tabbing out

[Serious Sam]

Any posibility of giving us an option to turn off this pause thing that happens every time we alt - tab out of the game? Is there such an option already?

[Owlet VII]

Are people really surprised by a Pause function? It's in there so that Mental's minions won't kill you while you're Alt+Tabbed. Anyway, It doesn't pause for me when I Alt+Tab.

[JohnnyTheWolf]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I do not see the option to rebind the Pause button in the 'Customize Buttons' menu.

[Hikari Tachibana]

Originally posted by JohnnyTheWolf:

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I do not see the option to rebind the Pause button in the 'Customize Buttons' menu.

I checked myself and indeed there's no option to rebind pause key, I have even checked config files in userdata folder in order to check if there's option to rebind it manually from the controls file, however there's no such option even there.
Either the option got removed in some of later patches for some unknown reason or it wasn't added in the first place. I assume that the key might be "hard-coded" into engine and thus can't be rebinded or it's hidden somewhere in some different file.

If you're having some problems with unpausing, since some keyboards don't have pause key (and numpad and some other keys.) then you might have to use function key (FN) with combination of some other key (usually they have a key next to them in different colour that shows what key it will trigger when combined with function key.) to trigger pause key.

Or just plug in a normal keyboard with pause key available and use that. I'm aware that this option would be tedious to do, but considering that the last update was like 2 years ago, I wouldn't count on the developers doing anything with that.

[Baltasar Gracian]

Press Ctrl+P and the game should un pause, works for me atleast, was annoyed with the same issue before, just experimented, lol.