Game Minimizing on it's own! Help!

[Electric Tooth Brush]

I've been having an issue where my game minimizes on it's own. It seems like it happens every like 10-15 minutes and I've been looking all over the internet for a way to fix it. From what i've seen no one else is having the same issue as I've described. I haven't timed when it closes on it's own, but based on previous games it happens like 3-4 times per competitive game maybe more if the game is longer. which if most games are around 45 minutes that would be about 10+ minutes per interval.

I can easily reopen the game and most of the time everything is fine. I stop moving when it happens, but being mid firefight and getting bodied because I'm getting tabbed out is pretty infuriating.

Idk what to do anymore. I've tried restarting my PC, Verifying integrity of game files, updating my drivers, turning off Game Mode on my PC, Changing resolutions, graphic quality, changing to Windowed Borderless and Regular Windowed.

I don't know if this helps, but for some reason when I used to play more often my mic wouldn't work after death. That issue fixed on it's own though since I came back and I figured it was some bugs that were patched.

Nothing seems to be working for this problem with my game minimizing on it's own. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Edit: new issue found. Game won't open now. I tried joining a comp match and immediately got an error pop up. I closed the game and tried reopening the game. This prompted an update for drivers and my game never opened. I update the drivers and try to open the game a second time. no luck.

>I restart my PC.
>reopen game. no luck.
>I check integrity of files.
>sat at 0% for 30 minutes.
>Okay let's uninstall and reinstall the game.
>Can't reinstall.
>Wtf is happening.jpg
>restart PC, update more drivers apparently, restart again for funziez.
>Game not installing.

I'm just trying to feed the enemy team so everyone else stays in silver with me. :'( come on guys.

[Skizry]

Do you have Discord installed? I'd try uninstalling it. Does it still happen?

Also possibly Windows notifications are doing it, may try disabling them.

[Electric Tooth Brush]

Originally posted by Skizry:

Do you have Discord installed? I'd try uninstalling it. Does it still happen?

Also possibly Windows notifications are doing it, may try disabling them.

Yeah, I use discord. I'll try uninstalling it later tonight. I'm not sure if Windows notifications are the issue. I'll get pop ups mid game, but when it minimizes I don't have any pop up. I'm gonna turn them off anyway though. Because they are annoying asf. lol.

[Sethioz]

Originally posted by Electric Tooth Brush:

I've been having an issue where my game minimizes on it's own. It seems like it happens every like 10-15 minutes and I've been looking all over the internet for a way to fix it. From what i've seen no one else is having the same issue as I've described. I haven't timed when it closes on it's own, but based on previous games it happens like 3-4 times per competitive game maybe more if the game is longer. which if most games are around 45 minutes that would be about 10+ minutes per interval.

I can easily reopen the game and most of the time everything is fine. I stop moving when it happens, but being mid firefight and getting bodied because I'm getting tabbed out is pretty infuriating.

Idk what to do anymore. I've tried restarting my PC, Verifying integrity of game files, updating my drivers, turning off Game Mode on my PC, Changing resolutions, graphic quality, changing to Windowed Borderless and Regular Windowed.

I don't know if this helps, but for some reason when I used to play more often my mic wouldn't work after death. That issue fixed on it's own though since I came back and I figured it was some bugs that were patched.

Nothing seems to be working for this problem with my game minimizing on it's own. Does anyone know how to fix this?

i can only think of 2-3 things that can cause this:

1) you have some other program running on background that steals focus. most likely some trash that throws up notifications or other alerts. -- this is why i always disable ALL notifications. i never have any notifications at all, not in windows, not in steam.
for example firefox and chrome addons/extensions are causing this when they update. i've had it happen few times where addon updates itself and then opens new tab saying "this addon has been updated" and it ALWAYS steals focus.
that's why i also disable all kind of auto updates, it's seriously annoying when programs do that ... devs nowdays don't think that their program is not only one that people have on their PC.

2) you have game in fullscreen window or borderless and you're clicking outside game window, this can happen in fullscreen window or borderless modes, that your mouse goes outside the game window and you click on edge of screen (desktop) and this causes game to minimize as you clicked on desktop. --- this is why i never use borderless or fullscreen window. it also reduces performance.

3) about same as 2, but there's something open on your desktop that can be clicked-thru. just like some windows have "always on top" option, but instead of showing on top of game, they're only clickable thru game window. so when your mouse goes on top of that window and you click, then it steals focus as you clicked on it thru game. if this is the case, minimize everything else when playing. but this is also least likely cause.


if it's something in windows, i suggest use "O&OShutUp10++" to disable all sorts of annoyances and spyware within windows. there's one for 11 aswell, but 11 is spyware itself, i don't suggest running win11, it's worst windows yet.
either way that tool is very simple and free and does great job disabling annoyances.

[AuTx_Murphy]

same problem

[Frida]

it means your so bad at CS even your pc is trying to get you to quit.

[BAZ]

Its not discord
I use it to and does not cause issues
Overlay does not work if you dont use the launch option to let it work and does not take control of your screen like that.
MSI Afterburner same.
Use High DPI Aware and disable full screen optimization see if that works.
If not you can try to apply a custom static DPI to your screen to 100 instead of a random one you use.

[Electric Tooth Brush]

Originally posted by Basketball American:

it means your so bad at CS even your pc is trying to get you to quit.

Probably. I'm silver so it's very possible.

[Frida]

Originally posted by Electric Tooth Brush:

Originally posted by Basketball American:

it means your so bad at CS even your pc is trying to get you to quit.

Probably. I'm silver so it's very possible.

same but my pc has come to terms with my suckiness and does not minimize,,,

u might be hitting your windows key on accident when playing.... happens sometimes...