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[Solved] Screen turns black when exiting or switching to desktop from game - rand0m0mg - 10-18-2016 Hi, so i recently bought a new computer. I downloaded garry's mod and began playing, at first i didn't have any issues. Now since a couple of days ago i've had this wierd issue; When i alt-tab or alt + F4 to go to desktop or another program, my screen turns black with sounds remaining from game etc. Just completely black, i cannot find my mouse-cursor or anything. I can't ctrl+alt+delete to get task manager. The only solution is to reboot the computer.. I've tried disabling firewall, verifying game files and reinstalling garry's mod. There is no crash dump since it is not registered as a crash. I cannot tab back into game, and i cannot exit game from menu(same issue occurs). Here's my computer specs; GTX 1070 i5 - 6400 Win 10 250 SSD 16gb RAM Any help is appreciated. RE: Screen turns black when exiting or switching to desktop from game - Joulle - 10-18-2016 Does this happen with any other games or programs? Have you recently changed gmod's settings, launch parameters or configured something related to the game? How about graphics card's settings, have you changed them? Here's also a couple solutions that could work to go around the issue: Update or downgrade your graphics card drivers to their previous state(the game used to work with). When trying this solution, completely get rid of all graphics card related drivers or at least try resetting their settings. Run the game in windowed mode Add these as launch parameters: -sw -noborder Run gmod in an alternate directx mode You can do so by adding to the game's launch parameters +mat_dxlevel 81 - also you can try different directx modes like 80, 98 or 95 you can also try an alternate version of the command above which resets certain graphics settings to default ones related to the setting chosen: -dxlevel 81 NOTE THAT DIRECTX 8 MODE IS BROKEN NOWADAYS AND CAN CAUSE NUMEROUS ISSUES ON SOME SETUPS. I wouldn't recommend using it RE: Screen turns black when exiting or switching to desktop from game - rand0m0mg - 10-19-2016 (10-18-2016, 04:51 PM)Joulle Wrote: Does this happen with any other games or programs? Have you recently changed gmod's settings, launch parameters or configured something related to the game? How about graphics card's settings, have you changed them? No, gmod is the only program. I have only downloaded what is required for playing FLRP. It has been like this for 2 driver updates. Gonna try what you suggested, thank you! RE: Screen turns black when exiting or switching to desktop from game - Joulle - 10-19-2016 (10-19-2016, 01:40 PM)rand0m0mg Wrote:(10-18-2016, 04:51 PM)Joulle Wrote: Does this happen with any other games or programs? Have you recently changed gmod's settings, launch parameters or configured something related to the game? How about graphics card's settings, have you changed them? you should try the game with the drivers that were present at the time the game used to work with. RE: Screen turns black when exiting or switching to desktop from game - rand0m0mg - 10-20-2016 (10-19-2016, 02:20 PM)Joulle Wrote:(10-19-2016, 01:40 PM)rand0m0mg Wrote:(10-18-2016, 04:51 PM)Joulle Wrote: Does this happen with any other games or programs? Have you recently changed gmod's settings, launch parameters or configured something related to the game? How about graphics card's settings, have you changed them? Setting those launch options worked, thanks alot ))))))))))))))))))))))))))) RE: Screen turns black when exiting or switching to desktop from game - sebasti161 - 10-20-2016 joulle wonders what exactly fixed it for you [Image: 5bc9fae33e2c45658669e69d2e4956d2.png] RE: Screen turns black when exiting or switching to desktop from game - DreeBott - 12-05-2016 Problem solved. |