active window black screen after long idle time
My setup is normally working fine, and has been for months.
However I've recently encountered a rather odd intermittent problem/symptom/glitch, and I was just wondering if anyone knows what might be happening.
I have a window layout with a large active region in the upper left of my screen, and 8 smaller windows on the side and underneath the active region. The 8 smaller regions are homes for my 8 accounts. Fast swapping is enabled.
Recently I have encountered a black screen when I activate one of the windows that has been inactive for several hours. The game is still running and rendering correctly in the small home window when I switch to another to take that session out of the active window. Once a session gets in this state, it stays that way: I can switch it in and out of active region and it stays black in the active region but renders correctly in its home region. Once I had 3 slots acting that way, a few times it has been only a single slot that was affected.
If I exit the game in an affected slot and reload from scratch, it then works normally. But I have not found a way to restart the active region rendering for that slot without closing it out completely and re-launching.
I've only seen this happen when a slot has been running for several hours without ever being switched to the active region.
It isn't a big problem... doesn't happen often, does not affect game play so long as I don't really need to activate the "stuck" slot, and is easy enough to fix if I have to.
But does anyone have any ideas about this?
However I've recently encountered a rather odd intermittent problem/symptom/glitch, and I was just wondering if anyone knows what might be happening.
I have a window layout with a large active region in the upper left of my screen, and 8 smaller windows on the side and underneath the active region. The 8 smaller regions are homes for my 8 accounts. Fast swapping is enabled.
Recently I have encountered a black screen when I activate one of the windows that has been inactive for several hours. The game is still running and rendering correctly in the small home window when I switch to another to take that session out of the active window. Once a session gets in this state, it stays that way: I can switch it in and out of active region and it stays black in the active region but renders correctly in its home region. Once I had 3 slots acting that way, a few times it has been only a single slot that was affected.
If I exit the game in an affected slot and reload from scratch, it then works normally. But I have not found a way to restart the active region rendering for that slot without closing it out completely and re-launching.
I've only seen this happen when a slot has been running for several hours without ever being switched to the active region.
It isn't a big problem... doesn't happen often, does not affect game play so long as I don't really need to activate the "stuck" slot, and is easy enough to fix if I have to.
But does anyone have any ideas about this?