Game crashes when I do alt+tab

Good morning, game crashed twice while I do alt+tab in full screen mode (1600x900), I use alt+tab a lot and sometimes game crashes, once I was standing doing nothing and another I was teleporting.

Same here. In my case:
1. Game is crashing only when I'm inside actual game (not on menu screen)
2. During beta4 I was frequently alt+tabbing and everything was fine.

Yes same is happening to me too. Have changed it to borderless window until they've fixed.

Same, but happens rarely.

Experiencing the exact same problem, though mine is persistent and pressing alt+tab will always crash the game without fail.

I was frequently task-switching during beta phase 3 and 4 so the issue has come up in an update after open beta ended - please fix this as I balance several tasks at once and can't commit to having just the game on my screen for several hours.

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Originally Posted by Outrack

Experiencing the exact same problem, though mine is persistent and pressing alt+tab will always crash the game without fail.

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same here :(

Same here. Had no such problem in any of the other betas.

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Originally Posted by MiyamotoHaruka

Same here. In my case:
1. Game is crashing only when I'm inside actual game (not on menu screen)
2. During beta4 I was frequently alt+tabbing and everything was fine.

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Yep, same here, man. I alt + tabbed no problem throughout all of phase 4. However, since Early Access I've crashed to desktop 4-5 times, give or take. It only happens when I alt + tab to check a company members link or what have you in mumble or something on my browser and when I click back to ARR it crashes upon opening the screen.

This happened to me when I windows out too

Happening consistently to me. Every time I alt-tab the game crashes and I have to wait in a que again.

This is happening to me, as well. I never had a problem alt+tabbing out of the game throughout any of the beta tests (CB or OB), but now alt+tabbing will crash the game for me every time. Something obviously was changed in a patch between OB and early access.

Please fix this! I alt+tab quite a bit to check websites and linkshell forums and cannot until this is addressed. This is very frustrating!

Game is stuttering in borderless windowed in some areas... if i put it on full screen its fixed! but when i try to alt-tab few times the game will crash!!! will change to borderless till they fix it.

I'm having the same issue repeatedly. I tried swapping to borderless windowed mode to see if that would help...but changing the setting also crashes the client the few times I attempted the setting change. I also never had an issue in Phase 3 or 4, just Early Access.

Same problem but only after the third maintenance.
Also a big alt+tab user since p4

Logged in to support awareness. Alt tabbing makes the game stop working for me too. It doesn't happen ALL the time. I might get away with one or two alt tabs. But eventually I get a crash. Happens way more than it should, which is never by the way. Was in Phase 3 and 4, alt tabbed all the time and never ever got this problem.

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Originally Posted by jaepingsu

I'm having the same issue repeatedly. I tried swapping to borderless windowed mode to see if that would help...but changing the setting also crashes the client the few times I attempted the setting change. I also never had an issue in Phase 3 or 4, just Early Access.

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I fought this issue repeatedly again last night. As you said, when I was mindful of the possibility of alt+tab crashing out of full screen, I went into my settings to change to windowed first... and that crashed the client, also!

Right now when getting logged back in takes so much time and repeated attempts, it's extremely frustrating.

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Originally Posted by Rowyne

I fought this issue repeatedly again last night. As you said, when I was mindful of the possibility of alt+tab crashing out of full screen, I went into my settings to change to windowed first... and that crashed the client, also!

Right now when getting logged back in takes so much time and repeated attempts, it's extremely frustrating.

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I was finally able to get fullscreen windowed mode enabled without a crash by doing the configuration on the title screen before hitting "start" to enter character selection. At least if you crash out from there, it's not quite as frustrating as crashing from within the game after probably bashing past the 1017 error for entirely too long.

I'm having this problem (even when in windowed mode and not fullscreen). It also happens if my computer goes to sleep while I'm away from the keyboard (to shower or something), I suppose because it has the same effect as alt-tabbing. Kind of frustrating, considering how difficult it can be to get logged into the game in the first place.

Hey, guys, let's keep bumping this thread somehow to get this issue seen and addressed just to make sure!

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Launch Day: Still having the same alt + tab crashing issues. This is again from playing in fullscreen of the official release. I NEVER had this problem in alpha, or any of the beta tests. Only Early Access and Official Launch.

I can't record and upload videos properly while playing since I'm afraid every time I check the video to babysit I have a chance of crashing and having to spam the select button to get into a queue and enter the game. I can't join and leave mumble, since I fear of crashing and getting stuck in a queue, and so on.

I type this just to get my point across and share the feelings with others having a similar issue. Sound off if you're still having the same issues all day long while playing! Let's help fix this problem so we can alt +tab our hearts out!

Same problem,Alt+Tab and return to game = crash :(

Lol why even use fulscreen use Windows mode (borderless) Always then no problem it will be same size anyway

pff happens to me to and im on ps3 and im not using a keyboard... its crashes if i runn.. or if i use a shop or do anything..

I've had this happen once, and only while fully logged in, not while at character select or opening screen

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Originally Posted by starchild84

Lol why even use fulscreen use Windows mode (borderless) Always then no problem it will be same size anyway

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1. The game performs better in full screen
2. The bottom half of my screen gets cut off in borderless-windowed. It's never displayed correctly, not even in beta. The only way I can get it to display correctly is in full screen.

Same here.

* Windows 7 64bit SP1
* GTX 770 Drivers version 326.80

A couple of my FC mates and myself also experience this aggravating dilemma.
It happens 100% of the time I attempt to alt + tab in Fullscreen Mode and ~50-75% while using Borderless Windowed. Please address this as soon as possible, thank you! :D

Nvidia 560 GTX (v. 314.22)

Same issue here. :) P3 and P4 was fine. This only started after EA.
Thank you in advance for taking note of this bug, dev-team.:o

starchild84, because borderless windowed max is 1280x720.
Anyway, getting crash every time I alt tab after making a screenshot

The exact same thing has been happening to me, as well (alt-tabbing back into the game and having it crash %100 of the time). I've even tried a fresh install of FFXIV to be sure. I'd never had this issue occur during beta and such. In fact, I was ecstatic that I even could, compared to other MMOs/full-screen games. If possible, please address this ASAP, SE, so that the feature doesn't seem too good to be true!

Same, though less frequent after latest NVIDIA driver update.

Same thing here, when I tried changing setting to windowed my game also crashed and I couldn't log back in cause 1017.