Even if that’s the case, it still happens at completely random moments. Sometimes it’s enough to just leave the game running in the background for a while (a few or even several minutes) and it will freeze anyway.
9800X3D & 9070XT.
I’m getting this issue as well, I have the most recent AMD drivers and have tried WT in both bordered & borderless. That said, rather than a freeze, I get a full on driver hang so who knows.
I had the same issue, but I think it’s related to the GPU drivers. In case of War Thunder, it turns out its better to have old ones rather new ones. Also, if you want to quickly fix the issue, you can just use fullscreen instead of borderless windowed.
It doesn’t work in my case. I even changed the graphics card a few months ago, from Radeon to NVIDIA. The issue remains the same. The game freezes, but the internal debugger doesn’t register the freeze, so there is no information about it in the .clog files.
Really annoying bug that has been around for over 2 years at this point
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I have the same issue. Since the current last update alt+tabbing just freezes the game and it does seem like a game issue because it didn’t happen in previous patch.
They broke something again.
I am also getting constant crashes like described here, but that is a separate topic.
This is happening every 2-4 alt tabs i do, the game is actually unplayable anymore. Its insane that its been happening since march and still no fix.
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Same here. I am playing with 4060(laptop) + I9 and nothing changed even when I rolled back the drivers.
Yep, seems like it may be an engine issue. Couldn’t believe it when it happened. Thought I could escape that issue but no.
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It’s been nearly two years since this problem started when will it ever get fixed?
GAIJIN,Are you aiming for a Guinness record for the longest-standing bug?
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Could you check if this bugfix in Aces of Thunder help with the alt+tab freeze?
General fixes
- Fixed a freeze when switching from fullscreen to windowed mode in the game settings.
By the way, I’d like to ask—my PC monitor is a dual monitor setup with 27 inch WQHD and 23.8 inch FHD displays.
Other people experiencing freezes had the same configuration.
What kind of monitor setup do you all have?
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1440p and 1080p monitor
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Triple Monitor Setup
Experiencing crashes at a rate of 1 crash /3hrs.
Recently switched from DX12 to DX11.
Tried different graphics settings but no fix.
9800x3d/4080SUPER/NVME SSD
2x 2k / 1x 4k Monitors
What i did notice is that restarting the launcher without forceclosing the game will let you load back into your match and often even let you rejoin in your vehicle if you didnt die in the meantime.
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Ultimately, the cause remains unknown, but what we can say here is that switching windows with Alt+Tab on monitors with different resolutions causes a freeze, or more likely, switching windows with Alt+Tab on a 1440p monitor is highly likely to cause a freeze.
I forgot to add that the second monitor is connected to the motherboard’s video output. It displays the image via the CPU’s integrated graphics. But that doesn’t matter, because the game would freeze even when I was using only the dedicated GPU.
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for me when i do this, my game hangs and it says something along the lines of “your video card driver has hung, it has been restarted. Textures qualities are reduced”
or something along those lines.
Then it crashes. This doesn’t happen on any other game.
Like my sister can play her romance slop video games for hours on end without crashing or I can play my other building slop or city sim slop games or others but when I play war thunder sim slop it just crashes after a while or when I alt tab out of it.
Makes it impossible to play sim and essentially get turned off by playing war thunder
I don’t get why it happens. Happens on my 3 devices that I play wt on.
the devices have 2 nvidia GPUs and one amd GPU, all have amd CPUs though
Device specifications:
Device 1:
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NVIDIA system information report created on: 02/13/2026 23:12:28
NVIDIA App version: 11.0.6.383
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26200
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 591.86 - Tue Jan 27, 2026
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core Processor
RAM: 32.0 GB
Storage: SSD - 894.3 GB
Graphics card
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 8960
Graphics clock: 2572 MHz
Resizable BAR: Yes
Memory data rate: 28.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 256-bit
Memory bandwidth: 896.064 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 32218 MB
System video memory: N/A
Shared system memory: 15915 MB
Dedicated video memory: 16303 MB GDDR7
Video BIOS version: 98.03.58.00.23
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x16
Display (1): Acer XB273 Z
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (recommended)
Refresh rate: 280 Hz
Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit)
Display technology: G-SYNC Compatible
HDCP: Supported
Display (2): SONY TV
Resolution: 1080p, 1920 x 1080 (native)
Refresh rate: 60 Hz
Desktop color depth: Highest (32-bit)
HDCP: Supported
Device 2:
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NVIDIA system information report created on: 02/13/2026 23:21:55
NVIDIA App version: 11.0.5.420
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26100
DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12
Driver: Game Ready Driver - 576.52 - Mon May 19, 2025
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS with Radeon Graphics
RAM: 16.0 GB
Storage: SSD - 953.9 GB
Graphics card
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design
Direct3D feature level: 12_1
CUDA cores: 1920
Graphics clock: 1185 MHz
Max-Q technologies: No
Dynamic Boost: No
WhisperMode: No
Advanced Optimus: No
Maximum graphics power: N/A
Resizable BAR: No
Memory data rate: 11.00 Gbps
Memory interface: 192-bit
Memory bandwidth: 264.048 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 14038 MB
System video memory: N/A
Shared system memory: 7894 MB
Dedicated video memory: 6144 MB GDDR6
Video BIOS version: 90.06.58.40.03
IRQ: Not used
Bus: PCI Express x8 Gen3
Device 3 (The one that I play on the most and crashes the most):
If you can, please send the .clog file from the WarThunder\.game_logs folder here. The file should be created when the game closes, for example due to a crash.
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i’ve used ctrl+alt+del for so long and then one day i accidentaly discovered ESC + CTRL. saved the hassle and it wont fk up my game anymore.