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Special Rito has The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Dec 2, 2014 @ 12:24pm

BUG: Losing window focus

Almost whenever I launch the game it causes every single program window on my PC to lose focus (become inactive, f.ex. can't write in Firefox browser or Libre Office Word, game controls don't register) and randomly become active again or until I click the window in question.

The problem occurs only with Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and persists even after I exit the game. Only way of mending the problem is restarting my PC. There's some occasions when the game doesn't start the focus bug, but only rarely.

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Kabuto

Dec 2, 2014 @ 5:57pm

I am also having this problem, but I can not get it to go away

Klotor

Dec 18, 2014 @ 4:53am

In my case, the problem was caused by "Start menu 8", application that emulates win7 style start menu in win 8.0. After I turned it off, everything was working well again.

Antaker

Dec 19, 2014 @ 2:07pm

I have this problem too. And if i want to stop the loss of focus when i use anything else (browser, any window opened), i have to restore the system to a time where TBOI wasn't installed. It gets really annoying to cannot play a game i bought.

Kansari

Jan 6, 2015 @ 9:24am

I have same problem too, have to restart my PC to get it off. So annoying. Few times game has worked, but 99% bug appears

Kansari

Jan 6, 2015 @ 9:27am

changed windows 7 theme to basic. It fixes this bug.

Antaker

Jan 6, 2015 @ 1:25pm

thank you so much, the game doesn't bug anymore, i can finally play it

Special Rito has The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Jan 8, 2015 @ 2:53am

Originally posted by Kansipyy:
changed windows 7 theme to basic. It fixes this bug.

Thanks a lot. The game now works without losing focus.

Nogueh

Jan 8, 2015 @ 4:37am

Hey guys, if anyone is still having this issue in Windows 8.1, try disabling Error Reporting.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/disable-error-reporting-windows

It worked for me as it seemed to be the cause of the loss of window focus.

DeltaBlast has The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Sep 29, 2015 @ 3:11am

Originally posted by Nogueh:
Hey guys, if anyone is still having this issue in Windows 8.1, try disabling Error Reporting.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/disable-error-reporting-windows

It worked for me as it seemed to be the cause of the loss of window focus.

Nice! This solved this for me too. (on windows 7 btw)

Last edited by DeltaBlast; Sep 29, 2015 @ 3:24am