Anyone getting their PC restarted from tabbing out then in?

[Chillcatz]

I opened the game to play just after it is finally released, everything runs fine the game launches to main menu, but then when I Tab out to check something and then try to click the icon on my start bar to tab back in my screen goes black and my PC randomly restarts itself. It's not crashing because it restarts normally not a blue screen or anything like that, it just restarts my whole pc for some strange reason. please TELL me I'm not the only one getting this!? 😓😣

[r-2]

Alt+tab has issues...a lot of people are saying that...

[Chillcatz]

Originally posted by r2j2612:

Alt+tab has issues...a lot of people are saying that...

Thank god! I thought my pc was in trouble! Thanks for the relief! You just saved me from a BIG anxiety attack

[HammeR]

I get a hard lock black screen when running under borderless window whn alt tabbing.

[Chillcatz]

Originally posted by HammeR:

I get a hard lock black screen when running under borderless window whn alt tabbing.

Mine hard locks a black screen then instantly reboots the entire pc, no error messages or reports, no BSOD either, just a black lock up and then my pc reboots like it normally would. I'm so worried!

[r-2]

Originally posted by Zane Cooper:

Originally posted by r2j2612:

Alt+tab has issues...a lot of people are saying that...

Thank god! I thought my pc was in trouble! Thanks for the relief! You just saved me from a BIG anxiety attack

No worries man :)

[Sean8102]

Just curious what hardware/software you guys have because I can alt tab without issue.

4.5 Ghz 3770K
GTX 1080 / 388.00 driver
Windows 10 build 16299.19 (fall creators update)

[JBeckman]

Nvidia released a 388.10 Hotfix driver that might help with the game, it mentions Kepler GPU's specifically though but going by commentary it also helps with things such as G-Sync and perhaps game compatibility in general. :)

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/388-10-hotfix-driver-for-wolfenstein-ii.417568/

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4575

[Chillcatz]

Originally posted by Sean8102:

Just curious what hardware/software you guys have because I can alt tab without issue.

4.5 Ghz 3770K
GTX 1080 / 388.00 driver
Windows 10 build 16299.19 (fall creators update)

Any ideas on what could be causing my problem?

[Chillcatz]

Originally posted by JBeckman:

Nvidia released a 388.10 Hotfix driver that might help with the game, it mentions Kepler GPU's specifically though but going by commentary it also helps with things such as G-Sync and perhaps game compatibility in general. :)

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/388-10-hotfix-driver-for-wolfenstein-ii.417568/

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4575

Any ideas on what is causing the problem I specified?

[Sonicnerd18]

I'm getting simillar issue on my desktop rig. Oddly enough the game runs just fine on my laptop which is weaker, and have had no crashes there. Could be an AMD driver issue which is what I have in my main rig.

[JBeckman]

Originally posted by Zane Cooper:

Originally posted by JBeckman:

Nvidia released a 388.10 Hotfix driver that might help with the game, it mentions Kepler GPU's specifically though but going by commentary it also helps with things such as G-Sync and perhaps game compatibility in general. :)

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/388-10-hotfix-driver-for-wolfenstein-ii.417568/

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4575

Any ideas on what is causing the problem I specified?

I'm on a AMD GPU myself, alt-tab is doing something though even for windowed or borderless mode it causes momentarily flicker or how to say almost as if it's switching something which shouldn't happen in those display modes.
(EDIT: So for Nvidia I've read a bit about some of these problems but I can't do much testing myself as I don't have a Nvidia GPU to try with.)

Vulkan is a bit different from OpenGL though, I don't know if the game even supports OGL though the in-game console references it (r_displayapi was it?) but the game exe seems to be for Vulkan assuming it works the same DOOM did and there's a separate exe for each of these API's.

Display driver update is probably the best bet, Vulkan does use a separate runtime as well but I don't think it's as important as the Vulkan support from the display driver and then there's the same specific side of how the API is implemented and used too but I'm not too skilled with Vulkan myself or low-level API's in general at that.


Windowed or borderless display modes could be tried to see if it works around the issue unless you need fullscreen, there's a potential increase in latency and I don't know how well G-Sync (FreeSync on AMD.) handles non-fullscreen display mode either.

The black screen behavior does seem like a device lost issue or driver crash but Windows should be able to recover out of these with mostly just the game crashing as a result and the drivers re-initializing though it depends on how it crashes, not everything is able to recover as gracefully leading to requiring a system reset if things go badly.


If updating the display driver and changing the display mode doesn't work (Or if changing the display mode is unacceptable.) then I'm a bit out of ideas, I haven't checked how it looks on SteamDB but it might require a game patch or a future driver release at worst which well it sucks having to wait for fixes like that.

[The Horror Network]

My PC rebooted too after changing a graphic setting. That was so weird!!

[Chillcatz]

Originally posted by The Horror Network | Embalmer:

My PC rebooted too after changing a graphic setting. That was so weird!!

These bugs are so weird and mysterious, I was literally going go have a panic attack for fear my pc might be having problems again and that it crashed! But no XD it just casually restarted itself

[Sonicnerd18]

Originally posted by JBeckman:

Originally posted by Zane Cooper:

Any ideas on what is causing the problem I specified?

I'm on a AMD GPU myself, alt-tab is doing something though even for windowed or borderless mode it causes momentarily flicker or how to say almost as if it's switching something which shouldn't happen in those display modes.
(EDIT: So for Nvidia I've read a bit about some of these problems but I can't do much testing myself as I don't have a Nvidia GPU to try with.)

Vulkan is a bit different from OpenGL though, I don't know if the game even supports OGL though the in-game console references it (r_displayapi was it?) but the game exe seems to be for Vulkan assuming it works the same DOOM did and there's a separate exe for each of these API's.

Display driver update is probably the best bet, Vulkan does use a separate runtime as well but I don't think it's as important as the Vulkan support from the display driver and then there's the same specific side of how the API is implemented and used too but I'm not too skilled with Vulkan myself or low-level API's in general at that.


Windowed or borderless display modes could be tried to see if it works around the issue unless you need fullscreen, there's a potential increase in latency and I don't know how well G-Sync (FreeSync on AMD.) handles non-fullscreen display mode either.

The black screen behavior does seem like a device lost issue or driver crash but Windows should be able to recover out of these with mostly just the game crashing as a result and the drivers re-initializing though it depends on how it crashes, not everything is able to recover as gracefully leading to requiring a system reset if things go badly.


If updating the display driver and changing the display mode doesn't work (Or if changing the display mode is unacceptable.) then I'm a bit out of ideas, I haven't checked how it looks on SteamDB but it might require a game patch or a future driver release at worst which well it sucks having to wait for fixes like that.

Well, I can personally confirm that my Laptop with a GTX 1050 has no crashing issues. My desktop on the other hand with an RX 480 crashes during certain cutscenes, and sometimes when I try changing certain settings. So it seems like they might need patch some issues for AMD GPU, but other than that the game runs just fine. The only way I'm able to get around some of these crashes is to use my laptop to get past the scenes that are crashing, and then come back to my desktop.