Black Screen When I Alt-Tab

Speaks · March 2015

When I alt-tab out of the game, my screen goes black. I have to bring up Task Manager to go into anything else. And then, when I go back into the game, it's just a black screen, although I CAN hear sound and when I click my mouse, I can hear my character attacking, moving, etc.

I've never run into this issue before, is it new with patch 1.6. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm running Windows 7, GeForce 660 Ti. Not very tech savvy, so let me know if I need any more info.

AshySamurai · March 2015

Maybe you have problems because of new window modes? Now we have fullscreen, windowed and windowed fulscreen. Try to switch to windowed fulscreen.

Flynch · March 2015

Same problem here - i've switched to windowed-fullscreen mode for alt-tabbing now - though it may be my imagination, but i get microstutter on the windowed mode now

Caff32 · March 2020

I have the opposite problem. WHen I try to run the game in Windowed Fullscreen I get a black screen. When I run in full screen, everything is fine.

ZOS_Bill · March 2020

This thread is nearly five years old and for that reason we are closing the discussion. You are welcome to start a new thread on this issue if no recent ones exist.