Alt-Tabbing crashes the game

[Ormagoden2088]

Description: When the game is displayed in windowed mode switching from the game and back cause it to crash

Expected behavior:

Actual behavior:

When I try to alt-tab out of game while it's being displayed in a window(1280×1024) and try to click back into the game it locks up and crashes.

Game version: I download zip file EFS_a6.zip

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start the program
2. Start a new game as any house
3. When in Star map or planet view alt-tab out of program
4. Click on program

Additional information:

I wonder if this is a engine limitation or the game simply does not like being rendered in a window. This seems to be a problem with the 1.4 verison of the game from GOG.com

[Lobachevskiy]

Hm, I couldn't reproduce this on my end. The fact that it happens on 1.4 for you too seems to imply there's something about your setup that's causing it. Can you tell us more about your environment? (OS, resolution and number of your screens, your GPU)

[Ormagoden2088]

My setup is as follows: Windows 11 Intel I7-6700K 16gigs of Ram Radeon 5700XT 6gigs of Video Ram 1920x1080 on 1 monitor

I have EFS installed thru GOGs galaxy launcher with patch a6 installed over it. I have EFS running in a window at 1280x1024

[HDIAndrew]

Please copy EFS 1.5 into an entirely new folder from the GOG version in order to test it. Do not mix the two.

[floralpond]

I don't know if this is helpful for getting to the root of the issue, but today I got this error message when it crashed when alt-tabbing

[Matt-Caspermeyer]

I have an update on this issue.

I may have a fix for this issue, but I'm not certain. It is currently undergoing our testing, review, approval, and merge process.

If it indeed fixes the problem (or at least makes it better) then we hope to have this fix in a future release (V1.51).