[pygame] Windows pygame stutters

[Jack Nutting <jnutting@rebisoft.com>]

Hi all,

I'm new to python, pygame, and game programming in general (although 
I've been a programmer for years and years), and am having great fun 
learning this stuff!  Pygame rocks!  For a look at my work-in-progress, 
see http://www.nuthole.com/spinvaders.zip (the code needs lots of 
refactoring etc since I'm learning the problem domain from scratch as I 
go along, but it works pretty well.  Tips about any obvious newbie 
mistakes in this code would be appreciated!)

Now, on to my problem:  I'm doing my work on Mac OS X and everything 
works great.  I figured it would be nice to move this to Windows as 
well, and after a bit of trial and error I got things working a bit, 
with one catch:  My game starts up OK, plays for a few seconds, and 
then hangs.  It seems like my program just stops getting events for a 
while or something.  Eventually it will sometimes unfreeze and run a 
few frames, only to hang again.

Interestingly, this only occurs if I try to run in fullscreen mode.  
Running in a window is fine.  Any ideas?

//jack