Alt-tab freezing needs to be fixed

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“Damn, that’s two years of pain.”

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I reset MPO to its default settings.
I disabled G-Sync, turned off V-Sync in-game, and set the frame rate to 5 FPS below my monitor’s refresh rate, which prevents screen tearing.
I haven’t had any freezes for the past 2–3 days, but about a week ago they were occurring. It might be related to some additional changes I made in the NVIDIA App.

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I tried this combination a year ago, but it ended up freezing.
And now I’ve tried the same combination again, and it froze.

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Yesterday, I updated the graphics drivers using a clean installation. I then restored my previous configuration for War Thunder (G-Sync disabled, V-Sync disabled, FPS limited to 160, I have 165Hz monitor). Today, the game froze again, although the freeze occurred after an extended play session.

Windows Event Viewer

- System 

  - Provider 

   [ Name]  Application Hang 
   [ Guid]  {c631c3dc-c676-59e4-2db3-5c0af00f9675} 
 
   EventID 1002 
 
   Version 0 
 
   Level 2 
 
   Task 101 
 
   Opcode 0 
 
   Keywords 0x8000000000000000 
 
  - TimeCreated 

   [ SystemTime]  2026-03-28T22:11:02.9006409Z 
 
   EventRecordID 57212 
 
   Correlation 
 
  - Execution 

   [ ProcessID]  21676 
   [ ThreadID]  9716 
 
   Channel Application 
 
   Computer DESKTOP-PS3EMGC 
 
  - Security 

   [ UserID]  S-1-5-18 
 

- EventData 

  AppName aces.exe 
  AppVersion 2.55.0.40 
  ProcessId 0xd0c 
  StartTime 0x1dcbed80c2b72f0 
  TerminationTime 4294967295 
  ExeFileName D:\WarThunder\win64\aces.exe 
  ReportId 3739c246-3040-49db-bb81-f84b29650cb6 
  PackageFullName  
  PackageRelativeAppId  
  HangType Top level window is idle
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+REP alt tab crashing is annoying

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Try to open the game first, then right-click and go to Properties.

it feel sooo good that Im free from this suffers. I haven’t faced this problem ever since.

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Windowed screen works like a charm for me

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Unfortunately, it still freezes even when I set the compatibility mode to Windows 7
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I noticed that for me War Thunder would only hard freeze when I alt tabbed between my browser and the game. And even then usually only if the currently focused browser tab was playing a Youtube video or something similar. (I am using Firefox as my browser, and I am on Windows 11.)

Anyways, disabling hardware accelerated graphics in my web browser settings has seemingly fixed the issue.

EDIT: I just noticed how old this topic is. This issue only started happening for me around a week ago give or take. Not sure if it was a game update or a graphics driver update that caused it.

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Is the cache file for this game working properly?
After deleting it and reopening the game to play just one match, a cache file of 632MB has been generated.