elden ring is the most cursed game i've streamed in a long time. the last two ER streams my internet connection gave out, requiring me to power cycle all my networking equipment, a cable got smacked into a GPU fan, Windows would forcibly tab away from it every time my external HD woke up...
that's apparently not a universal Windows 11 bug? it will very frequently (every couple hours) drop window focus on what i'm doing and alt tab at random, unless Explorer is open, in which case it'll always always alt tab to Explorer. apparently it's not just me, but most W11 machines don't do this?
the cool thing is if i manually alt tab out of Elden Ring, it'll be fine once i tab back in. if Windows 11 decided i wanted to tab out, sometimes i simply cannot tab back in at all no matter what i do? but if i can tab back in, the game will be scaled incorrectly and i can only see the top left 25%
i usually don't have an external hard drive connected, but i do right now, and something i've noticed is that after a while the drive goes to sleep, but then occasionally windows will wake it up. you can tell because the light on the drive turns off, then when i lose window focus...it turns back on.
it's so odd. i don't care since it's just a matter of quitting the game and firing it back up (which thankfully i can do because the game is still visible in OBS), but i wonder what's going on. it's done the mystery alt tabbing thing since i installed 11 but the external HD seems like a clue, lol...
Feb 3, 2026 21:28oh yeah, I did notice it's kinda weird about hdds sometimes, even internal ones, it behaves oddly when it needs to wake them up sometimes, like it expects you to only have ssds as storage or soemthing
yeah, i really think there's got to be a connection there, lol. i DO only have SSDs as storage most of the time, but i've got a NAS and a google drive, so like, you never know...
