[0.802][Freeze] Alt+tabbing while loading a save

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It seems doing this completely freezes a saved game for me. It doesn't even say "Not responding" in task manager, doesn't crash or anything, but I'm just unable to get back to the game. I've waited for over five minutes (ten times longer than it usually takes to load) and nothing. Happens with every save I've tested so far.

Here's my dxdiag: http://pastebin.com/TrCisSUf 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Great, it seems that this  messed up the whole game for me now :( Whenever I try to start it now it minimizes itself straight to the task bar and stays there.  

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

That sounds like the same behavior on startup that I got running in windowed mode at certain resolutions. I wonder if they're related. You could try looking in the preferences file and seeing if anything looks out of whack.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Reinstalling the game helped for that minimizing at startup problem. I'm just gonna avoid minimizing it when it's loading from now on...

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

From my experience and many other posts. <alt><tab> always crashes the game. I don't think it has anything to do with when you <alt><tab>.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

If you happen to do this again by accident, please post your debug.err file as it might contain errors that will help us track this down.  

I'm not sure why it would break to the point of needing to re-install; losing the device usually doesn't cause permanent damage.  Did you try rebooting before you tried re-installing? 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I might be wrong, but isn't debug.err only created if the game crashes? I didn't try restarting, but if this happens again I'll try it first!

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

No, the debug.err file is created all the time (except for .802 when it got accidentally turned off).  It's the dump .dmp or .zip file that's produced on a crash.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Ok, thanks for the info :) So that's why I didn't see it in .802