Game Closes When Alt-Tabbing

[Frobacca]

I notice some other people had some glitched when they alt-tabbed out of fallout 4 and came back in, unfortunately, my seems a little worse than that since the game closes when I go back to the window. This also happens if I have a windows popup or anything that causes me to exit the game window, when I go back in game, it instantly closes. I can't even plug my headphones in while gaming since my computer asks if they're headphones or speakers

[Captain Dan]

Are you running the game in a higher resolution than your desktop is set to?

I tend to find if I have a game running in 2k or 4k, then switching to the 1080p desktop will always cause it to either crash or shut down.

[Wolförian Garmdomia]

Well, usually, people have everything set up before launching the game. Best solution is to plug in headphones before starting.

[Frobacca]

thanks for the quick responses!

@Captain Dan I'm currently running at 1080p on ultra, I have a 1080p 75MHz screen

@wolforian Well this is true, but this was just an example, but it also includes leaaving to message people on discord or other game apps (origin, uplay) or if windows just has random sh*t pop up, or any sort of multitasking. In the case of the headphones, I was playing wiithout them but then people showed up where I was so I plugged them in.

[Park_Ranger]

The game just doesn't like Alt/tab.

Whats your Windows version.

Originally posted by Wolförian:

Well, usually, people have everything set up before launching the game. Best solution is to plug in headphones before starting.

And this ^

[Frobacca]

@ park_rander windows 10 home, with the second to newest build, since the newest updates screws up my computer

[Park_Ranger]

Originally posted by Frobacca:

@ park_rander windows 10 home, with the second to newest build, since the newest updates screws up my computer

Don't Alt/tab, use the Windows key. (Unless your K/B doesn't have one).

It works for me.

[Xyzzy]

mine always fails alt-tab [and Winkey], I think cause I use Fraps, so turn off fraps, skype, chrome etc.

[Frobacca]

Originally posted by Park_Ranger:

Originally posted by Frobacca:

@ park_rander windows 10 home, with the second to newest build, since the newest updates screws up my computer

Don't Alt/tab, use the Windows key. (Unless your K/B doesn't have one).

It works for me.

will try to do this next time I play!

[Frobacca]

Originally posted by Xyzzy:

mine always fails alt-tab, I think cause I use Fraps, so turn off fraps, skype, chrome etc.

usually the only thing I have running in the background is discord, and MSI stuff (true color, nahimic, steel series)

[Park_Ranger]

Originally posted by Frobacca:

Originally posted by Park_Ranger:

Don't Alt/tab, use the Windows key. (Unless your K/B doesn't have one).

It works for me.

will try to do this next time I play!

And my desktop res is the same as my game res, game is paused when I go back to it by clicking the taskbar icon.

[Wolförian Garmdomia]

Originally posted by Frobacca:

thanks for the quick responses!

@Captain Dan I'm currently running at 1080p on ultra, I have a 1080p 75MHz screen

@wolforian Well this is true, but this was just an example, but it also includes leaaving to message people on discord or other game apps (origin, uplay) or if windows just has random sh*t pop up, or any sort of multitasking. In the case of the headphones, I was playing wiithout them but then people showed up where I was so I plugged them in.

In that case, try using Steam, instead of Steam's direct competitor.

[Frobacca]

Originally posted by Wolförian:

Originally posted by Frobacca:

thanks for the quick responses!

@Captain Dan I'm currently running at 1080p on ultra, I have a 1080p 75MHz screen

@wolforian Well this is true, but this was just an example, but it also includes leaaving to message people on discord or other game apps (origin, uplay) or if windows just has random sh*t pop up, or any sort of multitasking. In the case of the headphones, I was playing wiithout them but then people showed up where I was so I plugged them in.

In that case, try using Steam, instead of Steam's direct competitor.

I use steam for fallout 4, but I also use uplay and origin for games that are only on those, I ask, please, do not make this an arguement on what program we should use

[Park_Ranger]

Originally posted by Frobacca:

Originally posted by Wolförian:

In that case, try using Steam, instead of Steam's direct competitor.

I use steam for fallout 4, but I also use uplay and origin for games that are only on those, I ask, please, do not make this an arguement on what program we should use

It shouldn't really matter what you have running in the background, but remember Fallout is very system resources heavy, the more you load your system the more likely Fallout will crash or run out of memory.

[Wolförian Garmdomia]

Originally posted by Frobacca:

Originally posted by Wolförian:

In that case, try using Steam, instead of Steam's direct competitor.

I use steam for fallout 4, but I also use uplay and origin for games that are only on those, I ask, please, do not make this an arguement on what program we should use

So games like Crysis? I can't think of other games that are Origin exclusive...

What games do you have on Origin that you need to talk about while playing Fallout? Must be great games. I'm trying to be very anti-sarcastic. I do want to know.

[Park_Ranger]

Originally posted by Wolförian:

Quite funny, you don't even own Fallout on Steam.