RescueTime underreports the time I spend on full window applications such as games and movies.

I played a two hour game of Age of Empires yesterday, and it registered as 10 minutes. When I watch movies, RescueTime records maybe 5 minutes for each hour I watch.

I'm running the latest version on Windows XP.

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Joe, Official Rep, replied on March 25, 2008 14:40

Yeah, we are aware of some issues surrounding certain types of full screen applications - mainly DirectX games. It is on my list of things to fix though!

For Movies, it's a bit harder, since when you watch the movie there is no keyboard or mouse activity for long periods of time, RescueTime assumes you have walked away from the computer. We've got some ideas on how to handle things like this.

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Monkeyget replied on March 28, 2008 16:54

I play a lot and this problem really ruins the stats of the dashboard. I hope it'll get fixed soon.

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