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CS and Alt-tabbing

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I have Vista64 Ultimate, ATI hd4850, and the problem happens to be that every time I use OpenGL in CS, I cant alt tab or it just closes. I cant windows key or ctrl alt del or it closes as well. When I go to D3D, I can alt tab normally. A couple days ago I updated to a open source ATI driver and when i did that I could alt tab in OpenGL, but when I went to do it the next day it goes back to the same problem. Anyone have any ideas on fixing this? I also get BSODs 2 times before my computer boots to windows, but after that it is all fine.

Specs are:
Intel E8400
ATI EAH4850
Corsair 550watt
Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L
8GB OCZ PC2 6400
Seagate 7200 250 GB SATA
Lite-on DVD rom

This comment was edited at 08/18/2008 2:35 PM
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D3D is playable but it messes up all of my brightness and gamma ingame as well as settings in ATI control panel

Who rememembers in 1.5 when you alt tabbed you lost your sound
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#3 all you ahd to do was press escape like 2 times and mouse over resume game!

#1, sorry, but it sounds as its a vista/gfx driver problem so i would find some more drivers.
or learn to not alt tab!
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Does playing in a window mode cause the same problem?
Asus S2F mobo | q9550 quad @ 3.14ghz | ATI 4870 dk 1gb | 4gb DDR21066 | WD300GB 10kRPM
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i cant get into windowed mode, it wont allow it at all. It just loads then crashes the game. Well the driver worked intially I am confused as to why it just stopped once I turned it off.
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i do #3
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bump, if anyone has fixed this or has drivers that have worked for them let me know
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#3 i was just thinking about that.

if youre getting BSOD's then check your overclocks, or your ram timing/voltage. and if you havent been to game.amd.com yet and gotten the new HD48XX series updated driver, then you should do so. its on the top of the list under the drivers and something else section.
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Well I did try to overclock but the motherboard reset as well as the ram back to default, so I am thinking that it wouldnt be that. That is the place I downloaded the new ones from and they worked for the first day but then it hasnt since then.
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weird,,
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yes it is very wierd :( i wish i could fix it
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i have very similar build except i have 8800 gt.
you definitely have something wrong if you bsod twice then boot up.
could very well be that your card is wonked! do you have another pcie card you can try?
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If you right click the counterstrike shortcut and go to "Compatiblity", changing it to Windows XP Service Pack 2 will fix this problem.

I used to have the same one when I installed vista, try it.
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just stop playing counterstrike on vista ffs
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I tried the compatibility mode and it just closes out as well, this just sucks.

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