Alt+Tab and DayZ

[Nicko2580 398]

So reading through a few guides and stuff it appears a lot of people keep a map open and alt tab between. That kinda ruins the spirit of the game for me, so I won't be doing that, however I do occasionally need to tab out (especially when I'm trying to tweak settings and need to reference stuff). However my game takes forever to alt+tab out and back in and half the time it locks up completely. 

Does anyone have a workaround for this? 

Is a fullscreen windowed mode planned for the future? I found a 'windowed' option in the .cfg file but enabling it makes the game behave very weirdly (all text and inventory etc is super sized) and become unplayable. 

[The Aquatic Land Walrus 565]

Don't use a laptop. I found this to be the case in my old craptop, but upon switching to a (fairly mediocre) Cybertron PC, it was almost no time inbetween tabs. Not 100% sure, but this is all I got.

[Nicko2580 398]

Don't use a laptop. I found this to be the case in my old craptop, but upon switching to a (fairly mediocre) Cybertron PC, it was almost no time inbetween tabs. Not 100% sure, but this is all I got.

I'm not. I'm on a decent quality gaming rig. 

Windows 7

3.6gh quad core AMD processor. 

GTX 770 2GB GPU

16GB Ram.

Edited February 16, 2014 by Nicko2580

[Tmar09 19]

Dual monitors ftw :D

[Conrad_The_Comrade 577]

If you use steam you can use the Steam Browser. Just press Shift+Tab and open the browser (That is if your using the internet for something, if its something else, gl)

[Nicko2580 398]

If you use steam you can use the Steam Browser. Just press Shift+Tab and open the browser (That is if your using the internet for something, if its something else, gl)

Ah okay, I'll try that. I didn't even know you could do that I never open the Steam overlay. 

It's mostly for when I am tweaking settings and I want to check something first. I was having to log out and log back in just to check stuff so eventually I just stopped bothering. Sometimes it's to look at the wiki for info - like I couldn't figure out how to open a Medkit after I'd picked it up and I had to completely log out to check because alt+tab takes so long. :p

[ld-airgrafix 403]

Or find a map and assign number to it

[Nicko2580 398]

Or find a map and assign number to it

Huh? What do you mean by that?

[Gekikara 4]

i use window mode, adjustable to any size with cursor. Duno about the UI sizes, can it be adjust in options? o_o for me it looks normal like it's on fullscreen.

[hypermoon 75]

Most games I can never alt/tab out of without having some problems but Day Z is one that works fine for me. 

 

I just don't care for how sometimes you are looking around with "Alt" and then go to open your inventory "tab".

[TEST_SUBJECT_83 465]

So reading through a few guides and stuff it appears a lot of people keep a map open and alt tab between. That kinda ruins the spirit of the game for me, so I won't be doing that, however I do occasionally need to tab out (especially when I'm trying to tweak settings and need to reference stuff). However my game takes forever to alt+tab out and back in and half the time it locks up completely. 

Does anyone have a workaround for this? 

Is a fullscreen windowed mode planned for the future? I found a 'windowed' option in the .cfg file but enabling it makes the game behave very weirdly (all text and inventory etc is super sized) and become unplayable. 

 

When you alt tab out DayZ freezes until you return so it takes a second or 5 to come back.

 

Go to your Steam library and right click DayZ > Properties > click "set launch options" > type in:

 

-noPause

 

and click ok.

 

What that does is keep DayZ running while you are alt tabbed.

 

Here's where I got this info.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=216291078#150061

If you try using multiple launch options, make sure you add them one at a time, in case one makes things worse instead of help.

Edited February 17, 2014 by TEST_SUBJECT_83