Drop to desktop bug

Binkley · 2013-11-30, 07:04 PM

Does everyone else experience this? You are playing and the game drops you to the desktop. Not a client crash, but as though you alt-tabbed? You can click right back in, but of course it always happens when you are flying a full Galaxy low into a drop zone.

Crashes can be hard to track down, I understand, because there can be many causes, some of which are related to the machine the client is running on, but WTF? I've run plenty of buggy software and I've never seen this once with any other program. SOE should take out a patent.

Emperor Newt · 2013-12-01, 06:05 AM

What other applications are running in the background? I had the issue once and it was another app that was causing this. But I don't remember which.

wobblyone · 2013-12-01, 09:17 AM

Yep, it's been happening to me for a while. Always twice in a row. Annoying!

Binkley · 2013-12-01, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by Emperor Newt

What other applications are running in the background? I had the issue once and it was another app that was causing this. But I don't remember which.

I usually have Teamspeak running and often a browser (FireFox), nothing else.

Rivenshield · 2013-12-02, 02:33 PM

Yep. Nothing running in the background, either. Always happens when I'm travelling.

TheRagingGerbil · 2013-12-02, 03:53 PM

I used to get it in Beta, a lot, then it went away. Since OMFG1 I will crash to desktop at the end of an alert or shortly thereafter, its really weird.