'Windows' Button Crashing Game
By
Flameshot,
Posted on: 2011-03-12 17:51 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Updating....
Rolling back my video drivers did nothing to resolve the problem. However, I noticed 2 things. First, it is only using the Windows button to pull up the task bar that causes the problem. I can ALT+Tab to my web browser or whatever else I have running without incident.
Second, and most importantly, I seem to be able to run in Windowed mode with no problems whatsoever. So, it looks like that is what I'm going to do.
Still, if anyone could explain exactly what is causing the problem and suggest a fix, I would appreciate it. I'm just utterly perplexed as to why this problem suddenly appeared out of no where. As I said, the only change I made to my system was updating my Nvidia drivers and my DirectX (which this game doesn't use anyway).
The Lich-King (50 Elec/Energy/Elec Blaster)
Co-Founder & Base Architect, Great Minds SG
Pinnacle Server (@Lich-King)
MA: "Death to Disco" (Arc ID# 167748)
- "Go. Hunt. Kill Numina."
Not sure about your issue particularly, but a couple of things to note.
I've noticed several times over the last couple of weeks that sometimes when I hit enter to chat, the input box lights up but nothing typed appears. If I hit enter two more times, once to come out of chat and once more to reopen it and start typing, what I had typed in previously appears before what I'm currently typing. It's quite an annoying little bug. I'll have to /bug it, keep forgetting.
Also, welcome to the Windowed Mode club 
I've been playing Windowed since I set up my second monitor a few years ago. Makes navigating around outside of CoH so much easier without the constant flickering between windows and having the monitor black out in between etc 
We'll see....
Hey folks...
I discovered a new problem today. The game seems to run fine until I hit the 'Windows' Button to pull up my Task Bar while running in full-screen mode. When I click back to the game, my mouse pointer zips around the screen wildly and uncontrollably the windows button even gets locked out. I used a key command to get to the chat line to let my team know I was having tech problems and I got a string of 'wwwwwww' as though the 'w' key was depressed. I updated the drivers and firmware on my mouse and tried the game again and the problem was still the same. Everything is fine until I hit the Windows button to pull up my task bar. Then everything goes ker-sploowy.
The only thing I can think of that I changed recently was updating my DirectX and my Nvidia video card drivers.
Any suggestions about what the problem might be and how I can go about correcting it?
Thanks.
The Lich-King (50 Elec/Energy/Elec Blaster)
Co-Founder & Base Architect, Great Minds SG
Pinnacle Server (@Lich-King)
MA: "Death to Disco" (Arc ID# 167748)
- "Go. Hunt. Kill Numina."