MTA won't open after alt-tabbing

[ekvatorx33]

Describe the bug
the title says it all, after alt-tabbing from desktop to mta a few times, MTA simply won't open anymore and I'm forced to close it with the task manager.

I've tried reinstalling MTA, move it to a different direction, changed the resolution from fullscreen to windowed (which made it flicker and lag really hard), nothing would work.

I can't find any reason for this to happen, as no updates on both my windows and MTA were made the day this problem appeared. windows 10 1903 version

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFDSh7Fq2cs

Version
1.5.7

[Haxardous]

this issue looks like it only happens when you're using Windows 10 version "1903" happens on 1903 and after

[Einheit-101]

I can confirm, i play MTA in windowed borderless mode now.

[ekvatorx33]

I can confirm, i play MTA in windowed borderless mode now.

borderless mod bad brightness off

[forget]

i just changed from standard to bordered keep res or smth and it fixed

[jhxp]

I have noticed this too.
You do not have to connect to any server - just keeping the game in the Main Menu and alt-tabbing to Desktop a few times then waiting for a while is sufficient - sometimes it will break as described in the original issue. The game does not seem to be frozen in such a state though - at least it's not indicated as such in the Task Manager.

MTA:SA Version: v1.5.7-release-20288
OS: Windows 10 19H1 / 1903 / 18362.387

[Dutchman101]

I cannot reproduce this on Windows 10 1903 (18362.387) with an R9 290 GPU.. just to indicate not everyone is affected

[Haxardous]

after crashing, it’ll show a direct3d error & just reset the video settings

[Haxardous]

still crashing after the latest windows update.

MTA Version: v1.5.7-release-20348
OS: 1909 / (Build 18363.476)

[AleksCore]

Same problem here :( I will try older MTA/Windows versions to find out
UPD: tried older MTA version (1.4.1) - still happens. Then problem not with MTA :(

[qaisjp]

UPD: tried older MTA version (1.4.1) - still happens. Then problem not with MTA :(

Thank you very much @AleksCore, this is very useful information :)

[Haxardous]

update: it's more likely related to Nvidia's GPUs only, AMD's GPUs aren't affected. check this message out.

[qaisjp]

Yeah I can't reproduce this issue, and I use an AMD GPU.

[jhxp]

Makes sense - I've had this issue on an NVIDIA GPU (GTX950 with newest drivers at that time).

[forget]

Honestly, this occurs in different games no matter what, same happened to me in CSGO various times. I believe this is a bug from NVIDIA itself and its drivers and not anything to do with MTA but all we can do is raise awareness and report it to them.