Alt tabbing= bad idea

[Salty Slothy]

Why does this game crash when its in a window and I alt tab? Anyone got anything for me?

[Hecter94]

Originally posted by TheOSB:

Why does this game crash when its in a window and I alt tab? Anyone got anything for me?

Alt-tabbing in games always gives weird results. Doesn't matter what game it is, really.

[Horoai]

I'm told updating your drivers can help with that.

[Nailfoot]

Originally posted by <| ° _ ° |>™:

Originally posted by TheOSB:

Why does this game crash when its in a window and I alt tab? Anyone got anything for me?

Alt-tabbing in games always gives weird results. Doesn't matter what game it is, really.

I would not make a general statement like that. I alt-tab out of lots of games. This game gives me no issues, but I do play fullscreen, not windowed as OP does.

[Salty Slothy]

I can't update right now because Nvidia is being retarded and their updates cause total system failures.

[Bearistotle]

I have the same efffects when I lay Fallout: New Vegas. Basically ALT+TABing is a death sentence to the game, and I'm lucky if I don't have to do a hard reboot. I don't know why it does it, but I suspect the Illuminati are involved somehow.

[Salty Slothy]

Whats weird is if i alt tab with the game windowed while its starting up it fails to load whatever file its on.

[emb3r]

I have a multi monitor setup and multitask while playing constantly. I have 160 hours logged of so doing. I have never experienced this issue. I also have 32GB of RAM, perhaps that helps...

[Arayala]

Riparino bugarino

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Lireal:

I have the same efffects when I lay Fallout: New Vegas. Basically ALT+TABing is a death sentence to the game, and I'm lucky if I don't have to do a hard reboot. I don't know why it does it, but I suspect the Illuminati are involved somehow.

bethesda games never liked alt+tabbing, in general they sometimes even didnt like to run at all

[James Lister]

this is my modus operandi, alt-tabbing both in windows mod and windowless, never crushed ...

[ThunderSizzle]

Aye, Factorio by default (for me, at least) is one of the only games that ALT-TABS gracefully by default. On all 3 of my machines (which are all higher end of the ballpark, without doubt)

[Salty Slothy]

Originally posted by Lucky14:

Aye, Factorio by default (for me, at least) is one of the only games that ALT-TABS gracefully by default. On all 3 of my machines (which are all higher end of the ballpark, without doubt)

I've never had a game crash reliably alt tabbing.

[Hecter94]

Originally posted by TheOSB:

Originally posted by Lucky14:

Aye, Factorio by default (for me, at least) is one of the only games that ALT-TABS gracefully by default. On all 3 of my machines (which are all higher end of the ballpark, without doubt)

I've never had a game crash reliably alt tabbing.

It's incredibly sporadic.
I know Skyrim (and other elder scrolls games) were notorious for being incredibly bad to alt-tab but I never had any issues with it.

Factorio on the other hand, will basically insta-crash for me if I try to alt-tab it.

There's just so many different factors that can influence it.

[Salty Slothy]

The biggest issue is that the game isn't full scren. ITS WINDOWED

[Hecter94]

Originally posted by TheOSB:

The biggest issue is that the game isn't full scren. ITS WINDOWED

It's borderless windowed, not an issue. There was an entire thread about it a little while ago, I'd suggest you check that out