Guild Wars 2

Been playing some pvp matches recently, and I noticed that whenever I alt+tab to change music or anything I cannot get back into GW2 it keeps minimizing no matter what I do. Had to restart during a match that was very close, may have been able to won but my character was probably standing still while I desperately tried to get back in. I had to Ctrl+alt+del and end process to close GW then restart it.

This is on top of random latency spikes that have been happening, not too often but enough to be really annoying. I also noticed some pvp streamers (I stopped playing after the first lag spike for a bit and watched Caith) were lagging too, so much so that Caith from the Abjured had to stop playing, so maybe something with the NA servers?

Any idea what the minimizing issue could be about? I know server stability isnt exactly a quick fix but I’m sure this other issue has happened to someone else.

I would recommend using windowed-fullscreen mode. It doesn’t minimize the game. It keeps it playing in the foreground rather than putting it in the background processes when you alt-tab. Other than that idk.