A measure that helped somewhat.
I set the idle FPS for background apps to the maximum of 200 FPS in the Nvidia Control Panel.
It doesn’t completely prevent the game from freezing, but it has improved things slightly.
As leaks from the original development team suggest, GAIJIN’s current development environment is an absolute disaster, so there’s probably no one capable of fixing this bug.
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It’s crazy how there are 1000’s of posts on their issue tracker about this and they just give the most basic reply about nothing
People have started reporting it in Enlisted and Aces of Thunder, 2 spin off games. It’s a dagor engine issue with windows for sure.
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same issue, but cachyOS so not a windows issue, although same bug happened to my windows installation also
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does cachyOS have MPO equivalant?
Have no idea if alt tabbing makes my problem but freezing every 10 seconds
DDU remove amd/intel/nvidia full clean install on june driver - does nothing
sound mod off - does nothing.
this is 100% gaijin end.
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I suspect that the game is responsible, but it’s difficult to prove because the game’s error detection mechanism doesn’t detect the issue. The only evidence is an error report generated by Windows.
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Yes. The bug wasn’t happening 1-2 years ago, it happened after a major update (i don’t know which one), but I remember noticing it a long time ago. I’ve been playing for a few years on consistant OS, this is not Window, this is not driver related, not Nvidia/AMD/Intel related, there is something in the spaghetti-code that needs to be fixed but noone knows what it is.
The bug does not happen if you alt tab in an app that is not in fullscreen mode. There is something with the game not being able to resume the simulation when you ALT-TAB back into ace.exe (war thunder).
For me, it always happen when I alt-tab to discord in “fullscreen” mode, so I always reduce discord’s window size a little bit. It seems that any fullscreen window causes the game to stop, and the moment it has to resume (alt-tabbing back in) it has to load everything back (textures, 3D models, data) and freezes.
For a lot of people it has been happening that long. Personally I’ve been experiencing it for over a year now (just look at when I made this topic). At the time of making this thread I was finding reports of the same issue for over a year before then. So this issue definitely has been happening for a long time.
I’m using fullscreen windowed and it still occurs.
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I’m sure it’s an issue with the game engine. Aces of Thunder uses the same engine and I’ve been experiencing the issue in that game too but a lot less frequently.
I specifically have to be in fullscreen (windowed probably will let me do it too but I’m not playing windowed) in order to be able to alt-tab without freezing. Fullscreen windowed causes the freeze. No idea why.
Happens to me on a 4k, happens less than it did on my UWQHD’s but after todays patch its happening a lot again lol
What GPU & drivers are you using?
With RTX 4070 I get pulsating shaders/lighting after a bit being alt-tabbed, but never freezing or crashing.
RTX 3080 and whatever the latest driver version is or has been since I made the report for the issue.
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RTX 5060, fully updated drive, keeps freezing when I alt tab with Direct 11 even in the hangar.
So apparently this issue has now been fixed according to this report. After an update in mid September I finally stopped experiencing this issue but only now they claim it’s been fixed today.
Can anyone who has recently been suffering with this issue check and see if it has been fixed for you?
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So the original accepted report has already been forgotten. Someone created a new report a month ago. It was accepted at the same time and fixed after a month.
Maybe we should start writing reports in Russian?
It’s what I’m thinking from now on. Any issues just write the report and chuck it through google translate.
Seems to be the best way of getting anything fixed.
My original report got a response within 6 months, but the russian report gets a response in under 2 hours.
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There is only one thing that was different in my case. The game would freeze after alt-tabbing several times, but it never recovered or displayed any error message. I simply had to close it via Task Manager.
Not sure when I’ll check it, though. I haven’t been playing much War Thunder recently.
This is what was happening to me and what I said in my report, the game had to be force closed via task manager.