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[Cold Soul]

Anyone else having issues getting back into the game after alt tabing out during the queue time, several of my regular drop mates are having the same issue, seems like the October patch is the culprit

[martian]

No problems here so far.

[Curccu]

Did you check that game didn't magically change itself from full windowed to fullscreen? It did it for me at one point and I was confused why did this crashing **** start now...

[w0qj]

You can also [Alt]+[Enter] to toggle the size of the MWO game client screen estate...

And no, no issues that you've mentioned... MWO is OK with my Win10 computer...

[LordNothing]

make sure it didnt change you back to full screen mode from full window. i had at least one patch do that.

[Cold Soul]

full screen and full window are both the same for me, windowed is a lot smaller, I run the game thru steam and have validated the files

[Gagis]

Cold Soul, on 04 November 2022 - 12:46 AM, said:

full screen and full window are both the same for me, windowed is a lot smaller, I run the game thru steam and have validated the files

It may LOOK the same, but MWO on fullscreen is unstable when alt-tabbing on modern operating systems, while it works fine on full window mode.

[Brizna]

Yes guys, if you are having problems alt-tabbing use windowed full-screen. It is borderless and safe.

[martian]

Cold Soul, on 04 November 2022 - 12:46 AM, said:

full screen and full window are both the same for me, windowed is a lot smaller, I run the game thru steam and have validated the files

I run the MWO standalone game client and everything is okay here. Are you sure that your problem is not caused by the Steam?

[Tarl Cabot]

Ding Toast is Ready, on 04 November 2022 - 05:30 PM, said:

Just curious, why is this the case?

Tis not just MWO but other games/programs also run into this issue. When running Full Screen then alt tabbing out then back in, the system has to renders the EACH screen each time, ie exclusion use of the graphic resources. When alt tab out of the program, it has to minimize the game and start rendering the desktop again. When you switch back to the game, the game has to restore itself and take control away from Windows.

And besides the game itself, there were also recent GPU driver updates, as well as Windows updates. Never mind that MWO coding is ancient, and any updates are not actual major code changes.

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 04 November 2022 - 07:08 PM.

[Cold Soul]

Windowed fullscreen has fixed the problem, thank you all posters