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World of Warcraft alt-tabbing suddenly takes several seconds with a black screen

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doitsujin/dxvk#5399 · opened 2025-12-22 by Davidsv · updated 2026-06-17 · 3 comments · github
DDavidsv 2025-12-22 github

After updating to dxvk 2.7.1 today, alt tabbing World of Warcraft client 1.18.0 produces a black screen when alt tabbing which stays on for several seconds. Before this update, alt-tabbing was instant. Confirmed this by disabling dxvk and alt tabbing is instant again.

EDIT:
setting this dxvk.conf setting to false fixed it with no apparent issues.
# Allow exclusive fullscreen mode - needed for most modern configs
dxvk.allowFse = False

KK0bin maintainer 2025-12-23 github

I assume you're on Windows?

DDavidsv 2025-12-23 github

I assume you're on Windows?

yes win 11

HHeidric 2025-12-23 github

Same problem on Win10, and the fix mentioned by @Davidsv helped as well. Thanks, mate.

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