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[Rhialto]

Anyone else get this from time to time? I thought that this was maybe due to the fact that I play in 3D, which is not yet officially supported, but I've seen someone else posting this and I have doubt he plays in 3D.

So it's a known problem?

It doesn't bother me that much, 1 every 10 games and it can be fixed quite fast (but switching from 3D to desktop then 3D again is longer that you) and when you pilot a Light at 150+ Km/h it may be deadly. That just what happened. I was in a Locust, game start on Caustic Valley, I go full speed 169 Km/h over volcano to spot ennemy but screen froze, by the time I ALT-TAB and come back, I was right into ennemy and I heard the expoding sound.

[Durant Carlyle]

The only time I've ever had that happen is when an overclock was too high.

If your graphics card is overclocked (whether manually by you or from the factory), I suggest a couple of things:

Make sure your graphics card's power management mode is set to Prefer Maximum Performance in the global settings of the Nvidia Control Panel. If you have an MW:O-specific profile, make sure it's also set to Prefer Maximum Performance.

If it's already set that way, or the problem continues with that setting enabled, then I suggest down-clocking your graphics card core speed a few MHz to see if that fixes it.

[Redshift2k5]

I get screen freezes that are unaffected by alt-tab. I think my graphic driver crashes or somesuch but no matter how many times I reinstall the drivers the issue creeps back.

[Durant Carlyle]

Redshift2k5, on 30 November 2013 - 08:21 AM, said:

I get screen freezes that are unaffected by alt-tab. I think my graphic driver crashes or somesuch but no matter how many times I reinstall the drivers the issue creeps back.

Yeah, that's what was happening to me when I overclocked too high with my new graphics card -- the driver would crash and the game would freeze up. Hitting Alt-Tab right away would get me to the desktop (where it would say something about the driver stopping and recovering in the bottom-right corner) and then Alt-Tab again would get me back into the (now working) game.

I eventually found the right overclock, and it hasn't happened since.

[Rhialto]

My video card is not overclocked and is not hot when it happens.

[Val_Z]

I have had 2 different cards, both have done it. Out of the 5 RL friends i regularly play with, it has happened to 3 of them. Some of us have brand new rigs, others have cheap/old ones with no OC's. It seems a common problem that has persisted through most patches from open beta when i was playing, and none of us have found a solution yet.

[kuangmk11]

I get it once in a while. I have found that if you run full screen window alt-tab will not fix it, but ctrl-alt-del and then esc will. You need a graphics mode switch to reset it or something.

[Rhialto]

kuangmk11, on 30 November 2013 - 01:12 PM, said:

I get it once in a while. I have found that if you run full screen window alt-tab will not fix it, but ctrl-alt-del and then esc will. You need a graphics mode switch to reset it or something.

I play full screen (not windowed) and ALT-TAB works every time.

[kuangmk11]

Rhialto, on 30 November 2013 - 01:16 PM, said:

I play full screen (not windowed) and ALT-TAB works every time.

Yes, I'm talking about the "full screen window" option that draws a borderless window instead of true fullscreen.

[Poppaukko]

Having way too much of these, I've posted about it in another thread.

TL;DR: Only game that does this, alt-tabbing, repairing or reinstalling does nothing.