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[Ellenai]

Does anyone of you encountered a DX11 alt tabing problem ? Everything seems to be fine on DX9.

[WintermuteOmega]

You mean the popping up and down of the MWO-Window?
I find it extremly annoying...

[Ellenai]

nope i mean alt tabing from fulscreen MWO to windows - its no-go

[Rasc4l]

WintermuteOmega, on 25 July 2014 - 02:04 AM, said:

You mean the popping up and down of the MWO-Window?
I find it extremly annoying...

Me too. I get it quite rarely, say once / active week if I play on 3-5 days.

[Ironwithin]

Running MWO in full-window and no problems, have you tried that ?

[DjPush]

I get the mouse cursor on the screen if I alt tab out too many times.

[Zuesacoatl]

I get that issue, but I found that if you have another window open, ie music program, it fixes the bug and you can alt tab to your hearts content. I have not seen any of the other bugs the others speak of myself, just can not alt-tab if no other window is open.

[zudukai]

when i tab out, most mechs turn a shade of blue/white on top of the paint, in game, mechlab everywhere.

also, if i tab out in game, my mouse becomes unbound by the window, and i need to go to the options and re select "fullscreen" and save to recapture it.

[mogs01gt]

WintermuteOmega, on 25 July 2014 - 02:04 AM, said:

You mean the popping up and down of the MWO-Window?
I find it extremly annoying...

Yep get this issue all the time. Only work around I found was to hit ESC first.

[Grendel408]

No issues alt-tabbing... are you folks running multiple monitor setups for your PCs or single monitors? Switches fine for me running fullscreen or full window mode in Win7x64

[Deimir]

I don't know where my DirectX versions are at nowadays, but my Win7 gaming laptop doesn't do anything when I hit alt-tab while my Win8 desktop PC can tab in and out as much as I like with no problems (heck, alt-tabbing out and back in actually FIXES a random screen freezing glitch I run into about once a week).

[BINDLETORC]

i have this issue from time to time. having another window open helps or hitting the 'windows' key and 'm' to minimize also works. i think this is more a Microsoft thing than MWO though as I have this issue with some other programs as well.

edit - PS: I am running Win7

Edited by BINDLETORC, 26 July 2014 - 03:45 AM.

[Chemie]

DX11 alt-tab causes a 5 sec delay when going back and forth but it does this in other games too

[DarthPeanut]

For those with the minimizing screen while playing issues. You cannot alt tab out of MWO in a loading/ transition screen... it unlocks/ unbinds your mouse from MWO 'window' and when you are playing you end up clicking off screen which minimizes MWO.

You can alt tab out safely without unlocking/ unbinding you mouse while sitting idle in mechlab and not have an issue though.

Edited by DarthPeanut, 26 July 2014 - 07:33 AM.

[Sneakypoop]

I second what DarthPeanut said : I have the same issue, and it's very easy to see it happening on dual screen : the pointer goes off game window while playing. Clicking on anything outside the game screen reduces the game window. Only happens when the game does not have focus during loading though.

[Jabilo]

You can not alt tab out of MWO in DX11 full screen mode if you do not have another window open.

It is a persistent known problem since the introduction of DX11 I believe.

A work around is to always have another open window, for example the performance tab of task manager, or to run MWO in other than full screen mode.

No doubt it will be fixed soon™.

[Grendel408]

DarthPeanut, on 26 July 2014 - 07:30 AM, said:

For those with the minimizing screen while playing issues. You cannot alt tab out of MWO in a loading/ transition screen... it unlocks/ unbinds your mouse from MWO 'window' and when you are playing you end up clicking off screen which minimizes MWO.

You can alt tab out safely without unlocking/ unbinding you mouse while sitting idle in mechlab and not have an issue though.

I alt-tab all the time during loading screens without issue... latest version of DX11 on Win7x64... however... I tend to run all my programs .exe files in Compatibility Mode/Run as Admin so maybe this can help solve folks issues?