Anyone else have an alt tab problem?

[SuperGamerGril]

Sometimes not always when I alt tab from the game and come back it still is running but the picture is frozen. The audio continues and when I move the character around I can hear footsteps and what not but I can not get the game back from its frozen frame. Am I the only one experiencing this bug? It is not my computer as it is literally a new geforce 4070 and fresh install of windows.

[Gramr98]

I just found this post by googling because I have the same issue as well. Image is frozen but I can hear audio.

I don't know what's causing this, but I found out that this doesn't happen when I'm only using "Fullscreen" (aka Borderless Window) and not "Exklusive Fullscreen" (aka actual Fullscreen). So if you still have that issue, it's worth it to consider whether you (and I) prefer a bit more perfomance and certain features or more QOL and less issues when Alt-Tabing to another window such as Discord or YouTube.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

Originally posted by Gramr98:

I just found this post by googling because I have the same issue as well. Image is frozen but I can hear audio.

I don't know what's causing this, but I found out that this doesn't happen when I'm only using "Fullscreen" (aka Borderless Window) and not "Exklusive Fullscreen" (aka actual Fullscreen). So if you still have that issue, it's worth it to consider whether you (and I) prefer a bit more perfomance and certain features or more QOL and less issues when Alt-Tabing to another window such as Discord or YouTube.

should always use borderless mode in modern games, unless you have a very specific reason why you should have to use exclusive fullscreen mode. Performance-wise, there is no difference between the 2 these days, any differences in FPS are within margin of error=negligible

[Gramr98]

Originally posted by Myztkl©-Kev:

Originally posted by Gramr98:

I just found this post by googling because I have the same issue as well. Image is frozen but I can hear audio.

I don't know what's causing this, but I found out that this doesn't happen when I'm only using "Fullscreen" (aka Borderless Window) and not "Exklusive Fullscreen" (aka actual Fullscreen). So if you still have that issue, it's worth it to consider whether you (and I) prefer a bit more perfomance and certain features or more QOL and less issues when Alt-Tabing to another window such as Discord or YouTube.

should always use borderless mode in modern games, unless you have a very specific reason why you should have to use exclusive fullscreen mode. Performance-wise, there is no difference between the 2 these days, any differences in FPS are within margin of error=negligible

Generally speaking I mostly agree, although it kinda depends on the game.

Horizon Forbidden West for example doesn't let me set a Refresh Rate of 60/100//144/160 fps if I use Borderless Mode. I can't really sync up the Ingame Refresh Rate with my Monitor if I'm not in Exclusive Fullscreen and therefore it feels kind of sluggish. At least on my system with my Intel Core i9 and RTX 4080 Super

[pankake]

Same issue here, I just keep trying and it usually works eventually :/

[PlayaCharacter]

I found a solution for this, or at least a temporary workaround. Alt + Enter switches between fullscreen and windowed, so if you're able to operate the menu settings but the visuals are frozen, Alt + Enter twice to switch to and then back out of windowed mode, and then you're back in the game.

The problem is that this now leaves you in Fullscreen mode rather than Exclusive Fullscreen, which on my rig at least, suffers from microstutters. This means you'll have to go into the menu and switch back to Exclusive Fullscreen, and possibly also set your refresh rate which for me defaults to 50 Hz for some bizarre reason. So yeah, it's clunky, but at least it works.

[SuperGamerGril]

thanks for teh workaround but it stopped happening after one of the updates. Glad you found out how to get around it though!

[Hydra_360ci]

not related, but I've found that some games block out windows shortcuts. And for those games going into Steam interface, Ctrl-TAB, unblocks the windows shortcuts while Steam interface is on. (I often have to do that when I'm watching youtube at the same time as playing certain games... to hit the skip button.).

[FFox]

Make sure you are on Exclusive Fullscreen and your refresh rate is your native max refresh rate matching your monitor. Somehow there is this bug which the game sets it to 50hz.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Gramr98:

Originally posted by Myztkl©-Kev:

should always use borderless mode in modern games, unless you have a very specific reason why you should have to use exclusive fullscreen mode. Performance-wise, there is no difference between the 2 these days, any differences in FPS are within margin of error=negligible

Generally speaking I mostly agree, although it kinda depends on the game.

Horizon Forbidden West for example doesn't let me set a Refresh Rate of 60/100//144/160 fps if I use Borderless Mode. I can't really sync up the Ingame Refresh Rate with my Monitor if I'm not in Exclusive Fullscreen and therefore it feels kind of sluggish. At least on my system with my Intel Core i9 and RTX 4080 Super

Well, it would help if you increased the refresh rate of your Windows desktop :rofl:

D3D12 doesn't have Fullscreen Exclusive, the only thing the game's option called this does is temporarily change the refresh rate of the Windows desktop. Which you can do yourself and then use the correct Fullscreen mode and never have any problems alt-tabbing.