Status: CURRENT — SIMPLE WORKAROUND
Last reviewed: 31 August 2026
Applies to: Forza Horizon 5 on Windows when Alt+Tab causes the game/menu to stop responding properlyThis still appears to be a useful workaround. It is not really a Thrustmaster T300RS fix — the wheel just happened to be what made me Alt+Tab in and out of Forza constantly while I was setting everything up.
I was given a Thrustmaster T300RS wheel and, while configuring it for Forza Horizon 5, I kept Alt+Tab‘ing out of the game to change settings.
Every now and again I’d return to Forza and end up stuck in the menu or unable to get the game responding properly.
After a bit of hunting around, I found a stupidly simple workaround: flick the game into windowed mode and then back to fullscreen.
The shortcut is:
Alt + EnterPress it once to switch display mode, then press it again to switch back.
For me that was enough to wake the game back up and let me get out of the menu.
So basically:
Alt + Tab out of Forza
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Come back and menus/input are cactus
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Alt + Enter
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Windowed mode
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Alt + Enter again
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Fullscreen again
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Game behaves itself :)Is this still a thing?
Yep, or at least variations of it are.
Forza Horizon 5 players have reported fullscreen/window-focus problems since launch, including the game behaving differently after Alt+Tab. Toggling between windowed and fullscreen has repeatedly been used as a workaround.
There were still player reports in 2026 where Alt + Enter and temporarily running FH5 in windowed mode helped get around loading/display weirdness.
Important: this doesn’t mean every stuck-menu problem has the same cause. If Alt+Enter fixes it, fantastic. If it doesn’t, don’t start reinstalling your Thrustmaster drivers just because this page mentions a T300RS.
If Alt + Enter doesn’t fix it
Try the boring stuff before tearing your sim rig apart:
- Alt+Tab out and back into the game again.
- Switch Windowed/Fullscreen from Forza’s video settings.
- Click directly inside the game window to make sure it has focus.
- Restart Forza if the input state is completely borked.
- If the problem only happens with the wheel connected, then start checking the Thrustmaster control panel, firmware and bindings.
But for the particular problem I had, two presses of Alt + Enter saved me from restarting the whole bloody game every time 😀