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I recently started playing Disciples Sacred Lands on Win10 and I have one problem I encounter every once in a while. When quitting the game often just freezes and refuses to quit. I can't alt-tab so ending the process is impossible, alt-f4 also doesn't work. The only thing I can do is press the windows key and restart the computer.
Is there any way to make sure this doesn't happen again? If that's not possible, is there any way to actually properly quit without shutting down the computer?
This question / problem has been solved by QWEEDDYZimage
Saw many times for few last years reports ppl cant alttab or minimize game. Very random games.

What OS you have? Starting from WinNT XP Ctrl+Alt+Del open Tesk Manager on top by default or Windows security screen forcely minimize everything. Its just minimize whole Desktop.
Then it fome to WinNT Vista and WinNT 7 where minimaze Desktop is default behaviour of Ctrl Alt Del. There is also mutltiple Desktop sentences introduced in Win7.

There is no way you cant do anything when any game frozen. Windows 8 no more NT but backported mobile OS. It have forcely windowed modes. Native rullscreen mode no more native fullscreen - just emulated. Differ emulation for DX11+ games, DX10 and DX pre-9.

Win8+ alttab, win+esc ctrl alt del - they all always work. After all there is Win+Tab to switch Desktops if you on Win7 or Win8+.

Also. Alt+F4 or power button can be set to open shutdown MENU which one also minimaze the whole Desktop and forcely on top. Not like Task Manager on-top mode but minimize everything at same time.
You can Cancel it and probably your Desktop screen will appear. Or Task Manager. This way not always Desktop reapper.

Looks like something very wrong with OS.

First try to uninstall junk applications with overlays. Etart from MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner RTSS (reinstal RivaTuner from its own official installer, not from MSI).
Close - make sure it closed(*) - Nahimic, NV Experience, some Keyboard/mouse/gamepad apps like LogoOptions. Anything fome with drivers but NOT real part of it.
Or maybe unistal them too. They NOT a drivers and ALWAYS make problems. Eome did not even appear in the game but they work as overlay anyway.
Discord app too.

Reinstall game +verify if you use Galaxy.

*Nowadays Windows as mobile backported work as mobile OS. Closed apps not close for real. Use Task Manager. At least main tab. Better - check also detail tab.

Check Compatibility tab after reinstall. There is fullscreen optimisation disabled option should he enabled by default by GOG installer/Galaxy scripts. Better keep it on. But try to experiment.
Do not check on other checkboxes!
Only this one. And with DPI options on additional window near first one option.

GOG also put additional compatibilities stored deeper in REGEDIT and SYSFOLDER. Should be ok with it.

There is DisciplesGL Wrapper-mod. For this one disable ALL compatibilities enabled by GOG. Better make a copy of game exe and rename it to Game1.exe. Use new copy to laucnh the game with DisciplesGL.

Or ty Narsoul's DDRAW Compat wrapper 3.0.1 (for Win8+, 2.0.1 for Win7). Again - EVERY COMPATIBILITIES SHOULD BE DISABLED or rename game exe to Game1.exe.
Post edited December 30, 2023 by QWEEDDYZ
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QWEEDDYZ: Saw many times for few last years reports ppl cant alttab or minimize game. Very random games.

What OS you have? Starting from WinNT XP Ctrl+Alt+Del open Tesk Manager on top by default or Windows security screen forcely minimize everything. Its just minimize whole Desktop.
Then it fome to WinNT Vista and WinNT 7 where minimaze Desktop is default behaviour of Ctrl Alt Del. There is also mutltiple Desktop sentences introduced in Win7.

There is no way you cant do anything when any game frozen. Windows 8 no more NT but backported mobile OS. It have forcely windowed modes. Native rullscreen mode no more native fullscreen - just emulated. Differ emulation for DX11+ games, DX10 and DX pre-9.

Win8+ alttab, win+esc ctrl alt del - they all always work. After all there is Win+Tab to switch Desktops if you on Win7 or Win8+.

Also. Alt+F4 or power button can be set to open shutdown MENU which one also minimaze the whole Desktop and forcely on top. Not like Task Manager on-top mode but minimize everything at same time.
You can Cancel it and probably your Desktop screen will appear. Or Task Manager. This way not always Desktop reapper.

Looks like something very wrong with OS.
Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work because then when I open Task Manager, the frozen Disciples screen just reappears and I can't do anything.

Win-Tab looks promising, I can actually minimize the game and access the Task Manager when I do that. I don't know if it would work when it inevitably freezes again, but I think that is my best bet. Thanks for your help.
It crashed again and Win-Tab still didn't let me out of the game screen, whenever I tried to switch to anything else, the game screen just reappeared.
should be checkbox for Task Manager to make it always on top. Still that one indeed not always work as should. Task Manager not always possible to get. But i can say im never need in forcing shutdown... Since Win7.

In worse case you can Ctrl_Alt_Del and chose to Exit from Win profile session. Its almost the same as shutdown. All lrograms will relaunch, all opened apps and files will be closed without saving changes. And sometimes wihtout saving settings changes. Not a solution way deffinetly.

Try DisciplesGL or Narzoul.
With DisciplesGL Verok provide one dll not needed technically. It is updated library, one of 3rd party libraries used by game. For possible crashes/freezes fixing. But if initially everything work it can bring issues. In your case maybe help.
http://disk.yandex.com/d/Wx3t86cuNIY8VA
(firts optional folder inside)