depends on how severe the hang is, on most directx applications, if you hit the windows key it should minimize to desktop, alt-tab is also another way to force minimize the game. Sometimes the black screen remains but you can see that the windows taskbar appears, and your mouse pointer hovers around this area. Just right click on the game itself on taskbar and close task.

the most ideal situation is no hangs at all. Why don't you mention what game this is and which part of it causes a crash.

This post has been edited by h@ksam: Sep 3 2013, 05:42 PM

civ 5 is known to crash

http://steamcommunity.com/app/8930/discuss...71765694383290/

you can try to verify cache, update or downgrade your gpu drivers

some players hinted on using dx 9 mode instead

the focus should be to fix civ 5 not to crash, not figuring out what to do when it does -__-

when you're left with a black screen and windows taskbar, right click and end task a few times on civ 5 and wait for a few seconds, if nothing happens, hit ctrl-alt-del and choose sign out, then sign back in.

directx crashes has a black screen overlay on the front, task manager window cannot be seen