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Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby Myrm » Tue May 31, 2016 1:51 pm

Does anybody else here experience this proplem?

Sometimes I am playing the game on my laptop and the game will suddenly shrink to the taskbar, revealing the desktop. I click on the icon in the taskbar and the game screen pops back up, with the game having still been running whilst minimised.

If I play an all day session thus will happen once, maybe twice in that time period.

It's frustrating.

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Re: Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby de Carabas » Tue May 31, 2016 2:09 pm

Yep. This happens for me when some very helpful update checker fires up. Apple is the normal culprit but I think I've had it with java as well in the past. Not sure how to stop it other than to disable those apps looking for updates but then I would forget to keep them up to date.
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Re: Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby Roger Wilco Jr » Tue May 31, 2016 3:11 pm

I've never had this happen. Do you play full screen or windowed?
It's time to give this another go.

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Re: Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby Orkekum » Tue May 31, 2016 3:21 pm

Ctrl alt del and i disable everything running in the background. No issues

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Re: Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby Myrm » Tue May 31, 2016 3:35 pm

Roger Wilco Jr wrote:I've never had this happen. Do you play full screen or windowed?



Full screen

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Re: Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby Loriath » Tue May 31, 2016 3:48 pm

Generally that is caused by a bad behaving program that is giving you a notification. Might be a virus scanner, mail notifier or something similar.
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Re: Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby Feldspar » Tue May 31, 2016 4:49 pm

As others have said, this is generally due to other programs, not ED.

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Re: Game Screen Shrinks to Taskbar

Postby Xebeth » Tue May 31, 2016 5:28 pm

Yep, same as other's, typically its Apple, Java, or Epson.
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