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Rising Vanguard

13 years ago

Random Alt+Tab

I've been experiencing an issue for a few months now where my game occasionally hides itself and shows my desktop on its own: I haven't given an Alt+Tab or anything of the like. It only happens during missions, but it is not limited to the use of any specific character, gear, map, etc. I wouldn't say it's really frequent - it happening about once every ten missions - but when it does happen, it's exceptionally annoying because it usually gets me killed.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

23 Replies

EricMW0
Rising Vanguard
13 years ago
If it happens during playing all of your games, it's your windows loosing focus, now it might be or it might not be a background application causing it, the only solutions i know to this problem is either reinstall your whole system like me (cause i'm lazy) or do a clean boot to try and see which program is causing it, here's how to do that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796/en
Like I said, it only happens with ME3. No other games and applications in general have ever done this, including Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2.
Anonymous
Not applicable
13 years ago
It makes zero difference. The only true cure is removing the offending process causing it, and only the clean boot will ID that process.
EricMW0
Rising Vanguard
13 years ago
I'll try that out and see if I can isolate the problem.