Alt tab Bug

[Otherside]

Hey im experiencing this bug wen alt tabbing were sometimes i cant get bak into the game i can hear the game even type in chat yet the screen wont load up for me

it is very random... sopmtimes i can alt tab fine then other times i cant alt tab at all

:S

any1 got any idea why this is happening

i got

a p4 2.8 ghz processor
2 gigs of ram
and a x1950 XT

[trepan]

OS?

[Otherside]

windows XP SP 2

[Masure]

I and my teammates often experienced this bug. Giving back the focus to spring is sometimes evil. I found that using the taskbar give worse results than alt-tabbing to restore spring focus.

[Peet]

Many, many games suffer from this (particularly Source Engine games, if I alttab out of TF2 it dies and forces me to kill it). Alttabbing is generally more successful than clicking the taskbar icon.

[Otherside]

it never used to happen to me b4 and it keeps occuring its also a bit random it mostly seems to happen im zoomed out the most if that could be causing it i dunno it never used to hapen

like i just had a game and a pop up came up (argh) i went bak in fine then it went out again and wen i tried to get bak in it didnt let me

i did scroll out tho b4 the second time i tried to get in so i was at full scroll out view and then my pc didnt let me load bak in i could hear the sounds and chat like always amd cud also press all commands


dunno how this happened or how to fix it tbh its annoying cos i cant alt tab wen specing incase i cant get bak in and if i get a pop during game gg.. its 50/50 if i can get bak in or not

(just ruined a 3v3 game for me)