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5 years ago

Alt-Tab out of Apex Legends causes black screen that freezes my entire PC.

Hello, When Alt-Tabbing or switching to my second monitor from Apex Legends (running in fullscreen mode) both my monitors go black (not lost signal) and an audio loop begins. My PC goes completely ...

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SecretDoctorX

5 years ago

Hello, thank you for your reply.

Yes, I can't understand why it happens. It hasn't happened since I made this thread and I've alt-tabbed quite a few times since then. Nothing was running apart from normal background processes like Norton Anti-Virus and Origin. Discord was also open but I've disabled the Discord overlay as I've read that can cause issues.

EA_Kent

Community Manager

5 years ago

@SecretDoctorX wrote:

Hello, thank you for your reply.

Yes, I can't understand why it happens. It hasn't happened since I made this thread and I've alt-tabbed quite a few times since then. Nothing was running apart from normal background processes like Norton Anti-Virus and Origin. Discord was also open but I've disabled the Discord overlay as I've read that can cause issues.

Hmm, gotcha.

Like you mentioned the Discord overlay can cause some weird issues, so leaving it disabled may help. Disabling the Origin In-game overlay may also help. You should be able to disable it in your Origin client settings.

/Kent