Arma 3 Freezes when alt-tabbing

[Zando912]

This is a new issue that has only started happening in the past couple weeks and once my games freezes I have to restart my PC in order to do anything.

Has anyone experienced this issue or know a fix?

 

[Hammah]

change your ingame settings to 'windowed fullscreen' and not 'fullscreen' and it should fix it.

 

[Armaholic]

Yep, just like Hammah said, change your ingame settings to 'windowed fullscreen' and not 'fullscreen' and it should fix it. I tried doing that a couple of months ago because Arma 3 would just crash all the time and It worked.

 

[Simon Ross]

On windows 10 I normally change to a second virtual desktop which has task manager on to stop you from having to restart, that is the one thing I do every time I start arma as a precaution. YOu can then switch between them by using ctrl+win key+ left/right arrow 

 

[.Jasonnn]

There’s currently an issue with the battle eye for arma and it’s making games crash, from what I believe they have fixed it but there have been some repercussions like low FPS and games freezing. I’d recommend putting a question on the Bohemia forum as you may get some responses from arma devs and etc. Just a suggestion. 

 

[LukeN]

On windows 10 I normally change to a second virtual desktop which has task manager on to stop you from having to restart, that is the one thing I do every time I start arma as a precaution. YOu can then switch between them by using ctrl+win key+ left/right arrow 

You use the same method as me! I don’t know why it’s such a revelation for certain people that the fix for alt tabbing issues related to screen freezing would be switching to a mode which does not require to process its own screen resolution - I guess some are more IT clever then others.

 

[Russlyman]

I had this issue and my friends did aswell, we fixed it by putting the game in Windowed Borderless.