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.