Game crashes if I alt tab no matter what

[💋 💋 💋]

This is kinda annoying.

[Fish]

This never happens to me. :?

The best solution would be, of course, to not alt+tab. But you probably have good enough reasons to need to.

[DonWippo]

Well I neither have the same problem, nor a solution, but I have a similiar problem. Whenever I want to look at the achievements of awesomenauts while playing the game. The screen with the achievements always dissappears in a few seconds no matter what.
Well my problem is not important, but anyone help the OP.

[Fegrus]

i get this but i hav no idea how to fix it

[Hykegs]

In the game forum they recommend you to use Steam Beta. My brother had the same problem and this solved for it. You can change this setting in the steam client.

[never knows best]

Press Shift+Tab first. then you may Alt+Tab and it will not crash

[Coco]

that happens to me too, but if u use the windows' home button on your keyboard, it doesnt crash

[Admiral Banana]

Originally posted by David French:

Press Shift+Tab first. then you may Alt+Tab and it will not crash

This works! Thank you!

[LightEp]

Originally posted by David French:

Press Shift+Tab first. then you may Alt+Tab and it will not crash

Same thing's been happening to me, thanks!

[Joost]

This is a videocard driver issue, it is usually fixed by installing new drivers (downloaded directly from the website of Nvidia/AMD/Intel), or by switching from OpenGL to DirectX.

[Pathetic Waste of Bandwidth]

I have had this issue too.

Test this to see if it is a problem from steams side, launch a game from different DRMs like Battle.net or Origin. If this persists in these games too, try:

• Updating Display Drivers
  
• Running the game in "Windowed (Fullscreen)" mode
  
• Disabling XBOX Game DVR if you are running Windows 10

If this only happens within steam games, you could try:

• Disabling the steam overlay within the steam settings.
  
• Running the Steam Beta
  
• Re-install steam.

If none of these solutions work, try wiping your hard drive.
OR, if you are using windows 10 and have this problem - Downgrade to Windows 7/8 or Linux

[Joost]

You're replying to a really old topic. In the meanwhile we've already added a better solution to Awesomenauts: switch to Borderless Window instead of Fullscreen and alt+tab won't crash anymore and will also be much faster.

[Viverian]

@joost not all games have a borderless option..