Why does ff14 crash when i alt tab

If you try this yourself, be sure to occasionally check for updates and then re-snooze the auto updates. Originally, I was getting intermittent once an hour "A fatal DirectX error has occurred. All of the searching I did online lead to it being a video driver issue more on that later and the fix being to reinstall the video drivers.

Doing that was not only a huge pain in the butt, it also didn't change a thing! During each crash, my sound would also get wonky for a second before the actual error dialog would appear. Given that I know FFXIV's long history of audio issues ahem before Shadowbringers, don't change your audio output unless you'd like to not have sound anymore, or how trying to use my AirPods over bluetooth would cause my game to crash , and that DirectX also involves audio and not just video, I reinstalled my Realtek audio drivers, and changed my audio jack from the front jack to the rear PC jack.

After doing the audio adjustments, the intermittently changed to the An unexpected error has occurred. To me, this felt like progress because it to me confirmed an audio-based issue. At this point, the big thing to notice for me is that the problems occur somewhat randomly. Sometimes I got a full crash to desktop, sometimes the audio and video froze for a moment and then everything came back.

I did a lot of uninstalling and reinstalling drivers at this point, and trying to find older drivers, beta drivers, etc. None of it helped. I also did a system refresh and re-setup my PC. Again, in addition to being a pain in the butt, this didn't help. At this point I noticed a couple of things:. Windows 10 security update running in the background would correlate to crashes occasionally.

But again, not always. Smart tiles when I opened the windows 10 start menu definitely contributed. I turned all of my smart tiles off and it helped reduce the frequency of the crashes a little.

I disabled Cortana by using the group policy editor. I have no idea if this helped further reduce the frequency of the crash at this point, but it certainly didn't get rid of them completely. To me, this started feeling like the kind of bug where FFXIV temporarily being put into the background for other processes to do something updates, lots of stuff running, something unknown so far was contributing to the problem.

My speculation was something like the audio processing queue overflowing due to not being able to process the audio quickly enough when other processes cut in. Again, pure speculation. Now, I was always on the hunt for extraneous processing. Do not set the priority to Real-time! In Task Manager details tab still, right click and "End Process Tree" on extraneous junk that I knew was extraneous junk.

Microsoft Edge being the notable one in my mind. This combo of really tuning multitasking down while playing seemed to help keep the crash down to once every couple hours. If you do not wish us to set cookies on your device, please do not use the website. Please read the Square Enix cookies policy for more information. Your use of the website is also subject to the terms in the Square Enix website terms of use and privacy policy and by using the website you are accepting those terms.

The Square Enix terms of use, privacy policy and cookies policy can also be found through links at the bottom of the page. Forum Top Version 1. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Last Jump to page: Results 1 to 10 of Thread: Fix alt-tab crash. Fix alt-tab crash DO IT! Just DO IT! Greetings, Jasdemi! Thank you for posting your concerns about your game crashing. In order to make sure that we have sufficient information for a thorough investigation, it would be a great help to us if you could provide the following details: Platform: Specify which version of Windows was in use to play the game.

Type of Internet Connection: Specify the type of connection. The main game window is set to "Keep above others" in KDE. Happens on Gnome as well. Alt tabbing works if you uncheck the "Keep above others" box but it's inaccessible if your task manager is on the same monitor as the game.

League creates a new window for every match so the setting "resets" after every game. Doesn't matter if the compositor is enabled or disabled. League alt tabs fine when using Gallium Nine. The bug here isn't that alt tabbing doesn't work; it works perfectly after you uncheck the box. But that shoudn't be the default. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. The reason I am hesitant about implementing this in D9VK, at least [these concerns don't affect DXVK], is because I would also have to implement the whole device loss crap that comes with that in D3D9.

The problem with that is qutie a lot of games will instead just crash if they recieve a device loss. So I'm kinda undecided Should I implement it, and mirror native crashes across a bunch of games or not implement it and have a handful of games where alt-tab is broken. Sorry, something went wrong. Could you not just set up KDE Window rules for any games that are affected by this instead?

This would ensure you don't need to manually uncheck "Keep Above Others" every time you execute the game.