Game crashes when I do alt+tab

[Rowyne]

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!

[Kona4me]

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.

[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.

[thiel]

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

[Smurf]

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.

[Rowyne]

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.

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.

[jaepingsu]

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.

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.

[Sforzie]

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.

[Leonesaurus]

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

Update from me:
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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!

[bid]

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