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#1: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:26 pm
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Since Wednesday my games have just started to randomly minimise. BF4 was really bad for it just start flashing back and forth, I thought windows was doing updates in the background and causing it but it is happening in all games :/

I checked task manager and nothing is running that wasn't there before :/

#2: Re: Random minimising Author: _lecro_, Location: England

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 10:04 pm
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What processes do you have running ?

#3: Re: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 11:30 pm
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53 background processes and 26 windows processes.

A lot basically. I have disabled a few things in start up that I do not remember being there. I googled them and apparently not dodgy but then again the display name isn't everything. Will see what happens after a restart.

#4: Re: Random minimising Author: _lecro_, Location: England

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 12:07 am
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Stop the goat pron downloader !

#5: Re: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 5:43 pm
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Seems to have been fixed...atm. Java update seems to have helped.

#6: Re: Random minimising Author: Jacksoni, Location: Tampere, Finland

Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 10:36 am
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Seemed to persist last night so I'm gonna throw some ideas.

Are you still using two monitors? Maybe the mouse cursor is leaving the main screen onto the other and causing the game on the main to minimize/crash or some update messed with your desktop settings.

Using many overlays (origin, xfire, steam, uplay, teamspeak, fraps...) might cause it too, maybe try without any of them running? (if ya can find a game that doesn't require one PDT_Armataz_01_14

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I read on overclock.net that people with wireless keyboards and mice have had these kinds of problems.

And ofc try updating/using different gpu drivers, deleting system32.exe, sacrificing a goat while humming pagan chants and all that.

#7: Re: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 1:13 pm
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It fixed itself after I done a java update had no crashes for helms deep.... Well I searched for update and it said there was no update lol. Yeah 2 monitors I have had the issue withgames that require no mouse.

I closed everything except steam and was happening. I have done no updates as everything has been working for ages. Only diff is windows updates. I do have a wireless mouse.

I don't know will look at updates in general I guess.

#8: Re: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 7:43 pm
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Well it has started up again PDT_Armataz_01_10

#9: Re: Random minimising Author: SUPERKING,

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 1:41 pm
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Hm.. I have that issue sporadically.. I dont particularly notice it.. I think it's mostly when I have Folding @ Home running or something (i.e. YouTube) is loading in Chrome, when the page loads the game minimises to the browser.. could this be your case?

#10: Re: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 1:50 pm
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I don't think so, I have next to nothing running like that while I am playing games. It is getting tedious as it just crops up before playing L4D2 or practice PDT_Armataz_01_07

#11: Re: Random minimising Author: SUPERKING,

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 2:00 pm
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I guess this hasn't been happening since day1.. which means something's changed to cause that to happen.. maybe a new game install or steam patch etc..

Maybe something to do with Steam Beta testing or try turning off the steam community feature for the game? Or re-installing?

#12: Re: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 2:25 pm
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Nah not day one. Very recent. I was thinking maybe a windows update as one happened a few days before hand. It's happened with steam closed even.

Was thinking of maybe doing a format soon PDT_Armataz_01_07

#13: Re: Random minimising Author: SUPERKING,

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 4:25 pm
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I like to avoid windows updates like the plague.. is this a windows 8 thing? Maybe graphics drivers?

#14: Re: Random minimising Author: TillBGoode, Location: Ashford

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 4:41 pm
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YEah windows 8. It does them silently in background. I was kind of thinking it was doing weekly updates and causing it but it does it far too frequently. I have not updated my graphics drivers for a while, mainly because it works PDT_Armataz_01_12

Can give it ago I guess.

#15: Re: Random minimising Author: NI-UNDEAD,

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 5:49 pm
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windows 8 is horrible... that is all

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