The Alt+Tab problem

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  • Salad Snake
    Member
    • Nov 2006
    • 764

    #1

    The Alt+Tab problem

    Why do Steam games (not just TF2, but almost all of them), freeze/take a long time to start again when you Alt+Tab out of them compared to other games?

    Halo or Battlefield, and even COD4, you go to the desktop and back, and you get a black screen for maybe 7-8 seconds tops.

    I try it on CS, TF2, or any steam mod, and half the time it stops responding, and the other half it takes more then 30 seconds to get back in the action.

    I've always wondered what the technical reason for this is, or if other people even have this problem.

    Note: I didn't know which forum to put this on so I put it here seeing as it seems to be the busiest subforum in TotalHL. Also, the problem is especially bad in TF2 imo. Apologies if this is the wrong place to post this.
  • Oli

    #2
    Yeah, i get it as well. Sometimes especially in CSS you get strange coloured scenery.

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    • Thermal755
      Member
      • Feb 2010
      • 835

      #3
      Happens to me as well,especially since I have to alt+tab out of most of my Steam games because my xfire doesn't work in-game for most of my games.

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      • Hawkers
        beep beep'm beep beep yeh
        • May 2007
        • 7131

        #4
        I've given up on xfire during toofte!
        I wait until the round is over to alt+tab!

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        • Oli

          #5
          My sexfire works in Toofte2

          Btw, how much RAM have you got Solid?

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          • Salad Snake
            Member
            • Nov 2006
            • 764

            #6
            1.5 gigs

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            • solofowaffles
              Member
              • May 2006
              • 4306

              #7
              I had 1 gig and thought this was due to not having 2 gigs,but i have 2 now and its not any faster.

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              • reynolddog

                #8
                Same here, i just don't think these games like the Alt tabbing.

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