alt+tab makes blackscreen randomly last long

[Raist]

It actually may be your hardware to some degree. It happens at different speeds between my two systems--an i7 laptop with an nVidia 670 series GPU and a C2D PC with an ATI 5800 series GPU.

I'm just glad it works without crashing the game... very uncharacteristic of SE to allow us to be able to alt-tab from their stuff without using a third-party tool. They're rendering methods in general are notorious for not getting along with anything that causes their game to loose focus.

We may not see any improvement until we move to a higher level of DirectX. Hopefully this will allow it to be more fully integrated with WDM (and finally resolve the hardware cursor issues Vista users are still having, among other longstanding issues).

[Vardahtoh]

It actually may be your hardware to some degree. It happens at different speeds between my two systems--an i7 laptop with an nVidia 670 series GPU and a C2D PC with an ATI 5800 series GPU.

I'm just glad it works without crashing the game... very uncharacteristic of SE to allow us to be able to alt-tab from their stuff without using a third-party tool. They're rendering methods in general are notorious for not getting along with anything that causes their game to loose focus.

We may not see any improvement until we move to a higher level of DirectX. Hopefully this will allow it to be more fully integrated with WDM (and finally resolve the hardware cursor issues Vista users are still having, among other longstanding issues).

If it was a hardware issue, I'm sure I would have seen other issues with the many other games I have played throughout the year in a half since I built this pc (starting with tera during nexus event).

Alt+tab is an os command and not a command within the game. The shell in the OS is telling the program to be minimized no matter what state it is in, as it switches to the next program on the task bar. If SE programmed the app to complain in rendering during the OS alt+tab command, then I would just call it bad UI programming of not allowing an operating system to alt+tab throughout a program.

You said it happens at different speeds on both your systems. Are they using different OS types?