Trouble closing Skyrim.

[Lord Tourettes]

Alright, this is a problem I've had with several games, but only recently with Skyrim. Earlier I was playing Skyrim and the whole game just stopped. Didn't CTD, just froze completely. I tried CTL-ALT-DEL, but when I open task manager I can't select the window, or any other window. I've had this problem rarely with other games, and it's always annoying because I end up having to either restart my PC, or select restart then cancel when it closes the frozen game. Does anyone know a way to either prevent this, or close the window without the chance of restarting the PC?

 

[JoeReese]

Does alt + tab take you out of full-screen game mode and back to windows mode? That may allow you to select your task manager window. I haven't tried it during a freeze, but I use it all the time for googling something in-game, changing volume, etc.

* edit * To get back to the game, sometimes I have to repeat the alt + tab process twice in order to play.

 

[Lord Tourettes]

Does alt + tab take you out of full-screen game mode and back to windows mode? That may allow you to select your task manager window. I haven't tried it during a freeze, but I use it all the time for googling something in-game, changing volume, etc.

* edit * To get back to the game, sometimes I have to repeat the alt + tab process twice in order to play.

Alt+Tab doesn't do anything. If it helps any, I'm running windows 8.1.

 

[JoeReese]

Does alt + tab take you out of full-screen game mode and back to windows mode? That may allow you to select your task manager window. I haven't tried it during a freeze, but I use it all the time for googling something in-game, changing volume, etc.

* edit * To get back to the game, sometimes I have to repeat the alt + tab process twice in order to play.

Alt+Tab doesn't do anything. If it helps any, I'm running windows 8.1.

Hmm...I am too. Not sure why it's not working that way for you.

 

[TheNatural]

Does the task manager window pop up at all? Or does it appear as if skyrim has gone into a full-screen "windowed mode" with a black screen? Also, are you running an ENB? Are you using SKSE? Those things can make a Windows 7/8 PC have issues when tabbing out do to the game running through a seperate host, yet still technically using steam.