Issue with window/task changing and Civ6 being unresponsive

[sibbe83]

Hello,

Been struggling for a long time with Civ 6 making the game unplayable to me. I only play offline. Often I'm using Firetuner meaning I will have to swap tasks/windows (ALT+TAB) within the game to change between Firetuner and Civ6. This has always worked nicely without any issues. Some time ago (haven't played it for a very long time due to this) this was not possible anymore. Now what happens if I change to Firetuner and try to go back to the game again the game is frozen, meaning I cannot click or do anything. I can't even change back to Firetuner. Not even quit or save the game as everything is unresponsive. The only way to quit the game is to use CTRL+ALT+DEL and click on log out. I'm running Windows 11.


Help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Vrair]

I am having the same problem on a brand new machine with Windows 11. If I try ALT/TAB, the game freezes and I can do absolutely nothing. If I have Task Manager running with it set to appear over windows, I can at least end the game. Otherwise it requires a hard restart of the computer.

 

[Vrair]

I found something that worked for me for Windows 11.

Settings, System, Display, Graphics, click change default settings, Turn On Optimizations for windowed games; restart computer.

This enabled me to be able to use ALT/TAB in game.