CS GO keeps minimizing randomly

[Deadlock]

I was fighting this problem until today and finally able to fix it, so I thought it would be nice to share my solution with the community here because none of the solutions on the Internet worked for me.

The problem was when I launch cs go it used to keep minimizing right after getting to the main menu. I was able to fix it temporarily just by switching to cs go several times (random number of tries = pure luck). But while in game, everything is ok unless I don't switch to desktop manually.

Solution: The only clue I got from forums was that it must be some process or notification that keeps poping up for less than a second thus not letting us notice the process and kill it.
So, what I did was to kill explorer.exe from task manager and exit all apps on frontpage other than cs go to make sure that there is only cs go on alt+tab section. I launched the game and it suddenly switched to black screen (instead of empty desktop), so I pressed alt+tab and saw that there is one more app running but it cannot be opened thus causing black screen. It was RAVCpl64.exe (realtek hp audio manager) in my case. Now I have the name of the processor that causes the issue so I disabled it from the startup menu and everything went well.

It could be a different process for you so check it out.

For non-experienced windows users, you can run explorer.exe on task manager after you seem to be done.

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[Deadlock]

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[Steve Urkel]

Having the same issue for like a week. Tried your solution but it didn't work.

-update-

I've tried a hundred different things and I found out that the problem was the new Panorama UI. Disabled by -legacyscaleformui in launchoptions, no minimizing anymore. But I can't play esea without panorama, next problem.

[ost]

the same as Steve.....

[Deadlock]

I posted this before Panorama UI was released so you probably have a different problem to which the solution here does not apply.

[Steve Urkel]

Yes, I think so. Still wanted to post it just in case someone has the same problem and tries to find a solution here so I could help him.

[Najkadle]

I experienced the same issue today, after installed an audo driver. As I read -legacyscaleformui does not work anymore (I tried anyway). I uninstalled the driver but it didn't solve the problem.

[Steve Urkel]

Sadly it really doesnt work anymore. For some hours i fixed it by disabling multicore rendering in video settings. But that doesnt work anymore. Im now searching for a third solution.

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[Sơn]

idk how to do all that but my game just started minimizing randomly as well.
help

[Ted]

Thanks, was wondering wtf was going on, at least it isn't just me so no doubt the issue will get patched. Soon hopefully...

[Fuerst Fux]

I had this problem today for the first time too. Apparently it was gone after I deactivated fullscreen optimizations on csgo.exe. Might just have been a coincidence though.

[werneo]

Any idea how to fix this? I have this problem for few days, 4 maybe 5. It's annoying. Also i can't use borderless mode becuase for unknow reason my frps drops from around 500 to 200 in windowed brdls mode.