Help windows key minimizes game

[ChucK---]

When i hit the windows key it minimizes my game and its annoying. This just started today and its only happening with po2 ALL others games dont minimize the game when the windows key is hit. Ive tried to roll back drivers and turn game mode off and on.

[[LZ]Icy]

Its supposed to do that... how do u mean other games dont?

[ChucK---]

Originally posted by LZIcy:

Its supposed to do that... how do u mean other games dont?

When i hit the windows key while playing the game the search bar overlays the game normally. i tried 3 other games and it still works normally but POE2 doesnt it minimizes the whole game to the taskbar and it super annoying when trying to look up a video or even switch monitors while in game.

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Originally posted by ChucK---:

Originally posted by LZIcy:

Its supposed to do that... how do u mean other games dont?

When i hit the windows key while playing the game the search bar overlays the game normally. i tried 3 other games and it still works normally but POE2 doesnt it minimizes the whole game to the taskbar and it super annoying when trying to look up a video or even switch monitors while in game.

Enable game mode through software and disable the windows key (if you have a keybaord like Razer/Logitech/Corsair etc)

[p00se2]

fullscreen-windowed mode ?

[ChucK---]

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

Originally posted by ChucK---:

When i hit the windows key while playing the game the search bar overlays the game normally. i tried 3 other games and it still works normally but POE2 doesnt it minimizes the whole game to the taskbar and it super annoying when trying to look up a video or even switch monitors while in game.

Enable game mode through software and disable the windows key (if you have a keybaord like Razer/Logitech/Corsair etc)

i don't want to disable the windows key because i use it a lot while gaming. i just need it to work how it normally worked 3 days ago. i tried the game mode option through settings and it didnt work

[ChucK---]

Originally posted by p00se2:

fullscreen-windowed mode ?

i don't like playing in windowed full screen but when in that mode it works and the game doesn't get minimized to the taskbar. thanks tho

[TwoFaceTony]

Originally posted by ChucK---:

Originally posted by p00se2:

fullscreen-windowed mode ?

i don't like playing in windowed full screen but when in that mode it works and the game doesn't get minimized to the taskbar. thanks tho

Except that's literally the answer you're looking for.

Originally posted by ChucK---:

When i hit the windows key while playing the game the search bar overlays the game normally.

This means the other games you were playing were in borderless window mode. Many games default to that mode. Most games call it Borderless Window mode, but some games have other names for it such as windowed fullscreen or fullscreen window. Fullscreen mode (sometimes called exclusive fullscreen) works as you are experiencing, where unfocusing that window (windows key, alt+tab, click another window, etc) will minimize the program.

If you want your game to be fullscreen, but you don't want the game to minimize when you tab out, then you put the game on borderless window mode.

[Darkrayne]

Any game that doesn't minimize when you tab out or use the windows key is in windowed fullscreen mode (or borderless windowed, same thing) even if the setting says you're in exclusive fullscreen. You're not really in exclusive fullscreen in those games and many newer games don't even allow for real exclusive fullscreen these days. You are not getting the old school "performance boost" for playing in fullscreen if they aren't minimizing when the game isn't focused.

[ChucK---]

Originally posted by TwoFaceTony:

Originally posted by ChucK---:

i don't like playing in windowed full screen but when in that mode it works and the game doesn't get minimized to the taskbar. thanks tho

Except that's literally the answer you're looking for.

Originally posted by ChucK---:

When i hit the windows key while playing the game the search bar overlays the game normally.

This means the other games you were playing were in borderless window mode. Many games default to that mode. Most games call it Borderless Window mode, but some games have other names for it such as windowed fullscreen or fullscreen window. Fullscreen mode (sometimes called exclusive fullscreen) works as you are experiencing, where unfocusing that window (windows key, alt+tab, click another window, etc) will minimize the program.

If you want your game to be fullscreen, but you don't want the game to minimize when you tab out, then you put the game on borderless window mode.

Originally posted by Darkrayne:

Any game that doesn't minimize when you tab out or use the windows key is in windowed fullscreen mode (or borderless windowed, same thing) even if the setting says you're in exclusive fullscreen. You're not really in exclusive fullscreen in those games and many newer games don't even allow for real exclusive fullscreen these days. You are not getting the old school "performance boost" for playing in fullscreen if they aren't minimizing when the game isn't focused.

Originally posted by Darkrayne:

Any game that doesn't minimize when you tab out or use the windows key is in windowed fullscreen mode (or borderless windowed, same thing) even if the setting says you're in exclusive fullscreen. You're not really in exclusive fullscreen in those games and many newer games don't even allow for real exclusive fullscreen these days. You are not getting the old school "performance boost" for playing in fullscreen if they aren't minimizing when the game isn't focused.

Changed it to windowed full screen and that fixed, Thanks. Im just wondering how it got set to that.

[Millertyme]

Originally posted by ChucK---:

When i hit the windows key it minimizes my game and its annoying. This just started today and its only happening with po2 ALL others games dont minimize the game when the windows key is hit. Ive tried to roll back drivers and turn game mode off and on.

NEVER HIT THE WINDOWS KEY AGAIN! SIMPLY JUST POP THAT SUCKER OUT OF THE KEYBOARD!