Can't Alt TAB Properly?

[Shaan5]

Lets say for instance that I'm playing Skyrim and it freezes and I want to Alt Tab out, But when I do it I get a black Screen and am forced to restart the Computer

 

Why is this?

 

It happened today when the Witcher 2 Froze

 

Thanks

[Goldensapling]

I know that if you tab out in Skyrim, you have to click the window and then Alt+Tab back in. I don't know about the Witcher 2, maybe the same?

[JESUSARIUS REX]

Lets say for instance that I'm playing Skyrim and it freezes and I want to Alt Tab out, But when I do it I get a black Screen and am forced to restart the Computer

 

Why is this?

 

It happened today when the Witcher 2 Froze

 

Thanks

Ctrl+Alt+Delete and clicking task manager sometimes works.

-source: Years of gaming on a potato lol.

[TechSam]

try to run borderless windowed whenever you can that prevents this from happening. pro tip ctrl+alt+del and taskmanager and del the program from there works sometimes

[rentaspoon]

Are you running Windows 8? This happens a lot to me.

[MattLantis]

Because Skyrim

[Thony]

This is what I would do if I had just one monitor:

Start something unimportant like calculator or a browser and keep it in background.

Start the game in full screen or windowed mode and whenever u need to alt+tab u will switch to the background application (calculator or browser) and see your taskbar as well.

I used to play league of legends on one monitor and alt+tab doesn't do anything because there's nowhere to alt+tab to (desktop doesn't count as alt+tab solution).