Fatal Error and Alt + Tab

I could reprocude it several times.

 

Via Impulse i've choosen to create a game. Everything's gone well. But while i wait, i like to see others things using Alt+tab. Then, when i want to come back, the game won't work. It gives me a grey screen and i have to press alt+tab again and press space to give ok to the fatal error message, which i cant see too.

 

 

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Reply #1 Top

this must have been reported by now... happens to me every 20th time i alt-tab out to check stats in lobby or browser while waiting.

Reply #2 Top

As a work around (if its an option for you), just play in windowed mode.  Works great for me. 

Reply #3 Top

I play in window mode to avoid this also.  Have to say though,  I'd rather have WoW-like tabbability, where playing window mode full screen is actually full screen and hitting the window key pops the taskbar up over the game.  Much better than having to alt-tab.

Helps with immersion not to see bars around the place.

Reply #4 Top

Quoting Remiel, reply 3
I play in window mode to avoid this also.  Have to say though,  I'd rather have WoW-like tabbability, where playing window mode full screen is actually full screen and hitting the window key pops the taskbar up over the game.  Much better than having to alt-tab.

Helps with immersion not to see bars around the place.
End of Remiel's quote

I agree with this too... I'd rather play full screen mode as well, but the alt+tab crashes made the decision easy enough for me.  Hopefully there will be some increased stability with this in 1.2. 

Reply #5 Top

whenever i tried windowed mode, half the letters on my keyboard were opening up windows folders instead of displaying a character in the chat window xD never figured it out

Reply #6 Top

Windowed-mode seems to compromise gameplay compared to full-screen mode.  My hope is to create a /stats mod with patch 1.2 so I don't need to alt+tab out of the game anymore to check someone's stats.