Game Hangs Loses Focus, Can't Get Back In Via Alt Tab

[Tr1ples1xer]

Anyone else get this ?

 

Me and my brother have the same rig and we have the same bug also, the game hangs for a second then gets me back to my desktop but I can still hear the sound and can crearly hear myself shoot when I click, but I can't get back to the game Its still in the taskbar and everything but nothing I do gets me back in, forcing me to alt F4. This has been happening for months now and is totally random :(

 

GTX980

I74790

Dual monitors

 

 

 

[Zizeff]

Yep i get the same issue i'm on a 970 so it might be a problem with the drivers or the cards them selves.

[JPlayah]

I believe I'm having the same issue or a similar one on my HP Envy laptop. It sometimes happens to me after I'm idle for a long period of time in my spaceship. I try to come back to the game and it just hangs up on me. I get a black box covering everything on my screen except for the taskbar. I can't even use the task manager to close the game because when I try to alt-tab, the black box of doom just covers everything again including my mouse pointer. I have to shut down and restart my computer. Graphics card is AMD Radeon HD 8610G. Hope this helps.

[BrazilianJoe]

One thing which helped me make my system stable again was to to a hardcore driver reinstall. 

 

It's not just a 'download latest version and run' procedure. 

 

The exact procedures depend on your video card (AMD, Intel, Nvidia) brand. 

 

You can find tutorials over the internet, but it usually involves: 

 

1) Uninstalling all apps/drivers from the video card maker.

2) Opening the Device Manager and choose "uninstall" for the video card device.

3) Booting into Safe Mode

4) Removing C:\AMD or C:\Nvidia with everything inside.

5) Removing all video card leftover folders on C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86), %ProgramData%, %appdata%, %localappdata%

6) Cleaning up registry entries for the video card., usually in HKLM/Software and HKCU/Software.

7) Rebooting into normal mode.

8) Reinstalling drivers from scratch. 

 

THESE ARE NOT COMPLETE INSTRUCITONS. Search for a tutorial on the internet. Improper management/deleton of system files, drivers and registry can permanently break your system requiring a full OS reinstall. 

 

Before doing any such thing, scanning the disk for errors, defragmenting and checking the system for viruses/adware is always recommended.