Opens screen minimized

[bobisworking]

I cannot get the game to go to the screen, it opens in the task bar but will not occupy the screen. I tried running with s few arguments (-fs -windowed), I tried editing the DefaultGlobalGraphicsSettings to low, medium, high, ultra and nothing makes it appear on the screen.

[Zapranoth]

A workaround is to open your task manager, right-click Starfield and maximize it there.

Mine is also launching minimized but haven't figured out why yet.

[The Toecutter]

I also have the same problem. I feel like I’m rolling the dice every time I play. I’ll try the work around, but so far I can play like 3 out of 10 times when I launch

[ekhunt70]

Putting a checkmark in Disable Fullscreen optimizations, in the Compatibility tab of shortcut properties. Opened and closed to see if that worked more than once, not sure if it will consistently. Hope it works for you all.

[EDGHolyHeadshot]

Originally posted by ekhunt70:

Putting a checkmark in Disable Fullscreen optimizations, in the Compatibility tab of shortcut properties. Opened and closed to see if that worked more than once, not sure if it will consistently. Hope it works for you all.

I don't have that option in Steam but I have the same problem. Launches minimized and will not maximize. However, after closing and relaunching, it works fine. So any time I want to play, I have to wait until the second time I launch it to get in.

[ALOWLYKERR]

i got the same issue. and it can take full pc reboots and multiple tries to fix.

[TerrorByte]

This has also just happend top me. At the time the game minimised, I was looking througn the settinging. I think I was in "Display" looking at my graphics card settings. I accidental pressssed the ESC ket rather than "TAB" to go back one menu. The game then minimised. Unfortunately none of the above suggestions have worked for me. Im considering uninstalling and re-installing.

[Mathias Giovanni]

That has happened to me as well several times. I normally just close it and restart and it works.

[bobisworking]

For anyone running into this without a fix... I wound up DDU my GPU and reinstalling the drivers and that seems to have worked.

[AoD_lexandro]

Try clicking the icon on task-bar and hitting Alt+Enter. That is the windows keybind for fullscreen.

[ALOWLYKERR]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Try clicking the icon on task-bar and hitting Alt+Enter. That is the windows keybind for fullscreen.

This isn't working however going to task manager, click on starfield, a sub option opens and you can right click and maximise it. This works everytime for me.

[MagicThief]

Originally posted by TerrorByte:

This has also just happend top me. At the time the game minimised, I was looking througn the settinging. I think I was in "Display" looking at my graphics card settings. I accidental pressssed the ESC ket rather than "TAB" to go back one menu. The game then minimised. Unfortunately none of the above suggestions have worked for me. Im considering uninstalling and re-installing.

After reading this, I realized I did the exact same thing. Taskmanager etc. wouldn't work for me either. I was able to, while the game was minimized, somehow navigate myself to the Display-settings again and turned the Borderless Fullscreen off. Then the game appeared again. Changing it back to On minimizes it again though.

[EDGHolyHeadshot]

https://youtu.be/GA697qiTDzU?si=o9dhYkHhb1d8JWua

[EDGHolyHeadshot]

I used those windiws/steam launch options and nvidia control panel settings and it worked for me (I skipped the other stuff)

[EDGHolyHeadshot]

Scratch that, its still happening for me 🙄

[[FuFo] Da HALOSHOCK]

I keep getting this. it's very annoying.