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The 2013 edition of the Source SDK
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Screen frozen - Game still running #352

Open dotn3b opened 8 years ago

dotn3b commented 8 years ago

The _betatest update seems to have introduce an issue whereby the game's screen(buffer) stops being updated. The game will still be running: You can still interact with it and everything is audible.

There are seemingly two ways to run into this: "Randomly" or sometimes after minimizing the game or it releasing/gaining focus.

My team has only tested the Windows client so far.

I personally have only run into this after alt-tabbing out and back in again - while playing in windowed mode. After resuming the game, I could still see my desktop and the game would not render. I have been told by one of my testers that this or something similar also occurs in CS:GO.

Edit: One thing I forgot to mention: Someone posted this in the corresponding Source-1-Games repository https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/1937

And yes, this can happen out of the blue while playing normally (without alt-tab) from what's been reported to me.

dotn3b commented 8 years ago

Seems like this happens after the graphics driver crashes. Tested with recent GeForce drivers. Not yet tested with the latest drivers or the recent Feb. 4th update to beta_test.

When this bug occurs you can switch video mode (fullscreen/windowed) to restore everything. This was the only thing I could find to get the game back. Easiest way to do it is via mat_setvideomode if you can get to the console.