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Not sure if this is the same problem you are having, but here is a link to a thread on the official forums highlighting a problem some of us have been having. No answer as of yet, but hopefully soon!



http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/52734-monitor-going-black-sound-playing-and-pc-not-respondin

What are your hardware specs? OS?

Curious as I have one system that does this as well with just D3. When the issue occurs for me it always occurs in two's. The second will occur within like a minute of the first minimize. Then all is fine for X number of hours before it again happens two times. As you say rather annoying issue thankfully I do not play on HC as I have died many times to this issue to date since 2.0.1 went live. :/

No, this is not a black screen hang issue. Literally it is as if we are hitting ALT+TAB to task switch to the desktop when we have not done so. The system is fully functioning and rendering fine and we are able to task switch back to Diablo 3 without issue. And as the OP stated it seems to only be D3 that is doing this and only since the patch. I was beginning to think I had a gremlin in my system since no one I know has seen this except me on just one of my various systems.

I am also having thisa same exact problem not only with diablo 3 but with hearthstone too

True about window mode... hadn't thought about the BNet launcher. I will have to try and exit it the next time I have a chance to log in and see if it helps or not.

I played a bit last night, not sure if it was long enough to trigger the issue or not, but I did not minimize once with the BNet launcher killed. Good find on this work around... Bliz needs to fix their launcher it looks like if it is the true culprit here.

Lol, now that you mention it that might actually be what I have been doing as well... I will have to pay closer attention next time.

Quote from Time2Kill

no. scrap all that. i finally figured it out. because it just happened. in my case anyway. my CTRL button was sticking and i was hitting ESC. CTRL+ESC=game minimizing. when ever i have my inventory up or anything i always hit ESC to close it. so anyway. stoner moment.



problem fixed

Pressing alt and enter also does this, in case you have your item highlighting on atl.

Well, I can definitely say it is not CTRL+ESC for my issue. I got up from my computer and left it sitting in the game for a couple minutes and came back to it sitting at the desktop. I had forgot to kill off the launcher and background process. Every time I make sure to kill the launcher and background updater I do not hit the issue. So I still think it is tied to the Blizz launcher for some reason.

=) When I forget to kill the launcher indeed it is.

I had a similar problem in the past and I found the best way to solve it was to bring up the task manager, got to processes, right click on Diablo III.exe, set priority. Setting the priority to High or Real Time should prevent it from minimizing randomly, as long as it's higher than your other processes, although it may also prevent you from bringing up other windows if you want to also.

i get this issue aswell diablo 3 only blizzard game that does this... its fking stupid and a pain in the fking a$$ blizzard are morons......

If any of you are running two monitors, have you tried disabling one. I had the issue with random minimize to taskbar when my other monitor was enabled.



I have since changed it to window mode.