Strange "Tabbing" out of the game

Hello,

I have a strange problem, which I cannot find the cause for.
When I am playing PoE since start of the new league, my game keeps to tab (Alt Tab) out of the game like once in a hour.

Of course this is something very dangerous when playing hardcore.

I started using the desktop client of PoESkillTree during this league, and at first I thought it would be this software. But it keeps happening even if I dont use it in the background.

I'm running the game on Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1511.

I intensively tested all my 6 special buttons in the mouse, but couldn't reproduce this "tabbing out" of the game. And I sincerely believe that I am not actually pushing alt+tab while playing.

Does anybody have the same experience? Or can think of a reason for this?

I just escaped death by shavron while involuntary tabbing out of the game, and kinda dont feel like playing before I solved this.

(Running anti virus now, nothing found so far.)

Anti virus could not find anything.
Also there are no pop ups or any notifications after the tabbing out

Is the game crashing when it's doing this? I'm having a frequent crashing problem right now after the patch

no not at all. I just tab in again, but it takes 2-3 seconds, which is bad if Shavronne has 3 books flying around you.
Maybe a crash would be nicer

don't think it's a virus, just a other program using a system modal dialog which is trying to get the input focus or something.

does it also happen if you run the game in fullscreen instead of windowed mode?

Im running in full screen already.
Also I do not see any system dialog from other programs ;(

Kill all the shit running in background. I really mean ALL, get into task manager and kill them. One of my friends was using some custom 3G connector application (idk why, windows integrated one was working just find as we found out later) and he was "alt-tabbing" every 1-2 minutes, while that application didn't show any pop-up windows at all. It just took focus on itself, and only from fullscreen apps...

Windowed fullscreen will not minimize if alt+tabbing.
On the other hand do you maybe accidently hit "WIN+D" from time to time?

WIN D is new for me ! (mac user) ill try to disable the windows button

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eldind wrote:

WIN D is new for me ! (mac user) ill try to disable the windows button

i'd recommend disabling the button, depending on your keyboard (if it's a gamering one) there should be an option for it. (gaming mode for razer e.g.)

OR: Here is a Microsoft KB article how to do it manually:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/216893