The issue is when you alt-tab/window key or any other way of focusing on something else other than the game window and when you go back to the game it freezes and becomes completely unresponsive. You cannot ALT+F4, right-click close, or force the game to close via Steam. The only way to close the game is to end it via Task Manager which then results in your computer itself freezing as it closes the game.
Before anyone says to make a report here’s a report I made already about the issue.
If any CM/TM/Dev or anyone that could bump the report so it get’s looked at and possibly finally fixed that would be great. If any more information is needed for the report I will gladly give it. Just please interact with the report in any way at all. This issue is the single most frustrating issue I have experienced in the game, I have lost out on so much SL and RP from the game freezing mid match it’s beyond.
Personally I have tried everything I can possibly think of to resolve the issue however it seems to be an issue with the game itself which would require a developer to look at however all the reports made on the issue seem to be dead or ignored.
I have been experiencing this issue for over a year now however I have found reports from 2+ years ago about the very same issue. There’s even a handful of topics made here in the Forums about the issue but those are rarely commented on by tech mods/bug mods but they like the reports are either abandoned or dead.
From what I can tell its related to DX12. I have a similar issue where in DX12 if I alt tab the game stay running but it looks frozen and then it will all of a sudden catch up to where it should be. I managed to cause a hard crash by alt tabbing rapidly.
On DX11 no such issue.
I physically cannot make it happen on DX11, on DX12 I can essentially make the issue happen on command.
I am currently testing other DX12 games and having no such issues so it is totally related to Warthunder and therefore it is on Gaijins end.
Just to test it to the extreme and I went around in multiple games spamming alt tab as fast as I could, even in some cases with windows across monitors at different refresh rates and resolutions just to make it more awkward, all were DX12 games and I even made sure they were games that would push my GPU to its limit and I got nothing.
This is a WT issue.
I even went to the extreme of tabbing between separate games that both were running in DX12 and nothing would happen.
Fixed Issues and Improvements
Intermittent system or application crash may be observed while pressing Alt-Tab during gameplay on some AMD Radeon™ Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6000 Series.