When I set "auto-join when slot available" on a 3.2b2 server through steam, and then see the ns taskbar item flashing, if I click on it too long after it starts flashing (after a certain amount of assets-loading is finished, I assume) my initial screen freezes. The screen will update itself if I enter console, but playing ingame, new frames are never rendered, thought I can still hear chat messages coming through.

[edit from this thread]Forgot to say in the other post that this only happens when ns is both waiting to join a game (when a slot is available) and my ns client is minimized to the taskbar (which I do a lot, in my book this is at least a B bug).[/edit]

This is definitely not an NS-specific issue. I've had it happen to me in DoD and TFC as well. Trying to search the Steam Message board isn't working very well (since alt, and tab are both too short to return results there). But this is definitely an issue at the Engine level.