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BVL3K Aug 4, 2013 @ 7:40am

[Solved] Help : my games minimize at launch

[Edit] There's a bunch of solutions in this thread, I detailed the one that worked for me

, feel free to send feedback if you have this same problem.

So each time i try to launch a game it minimize and when I click on it I get one sec of the menu's music and it minimize again before the screen even load, so I know the game is running (not crashed or whatever) but i can't play it, i can't access anything of the game.

All my non-steam games are fine.
I tried unistall/reinstall the games/steam but the problem is still here.
I disabled the in-game steam community thing but that changed nothing.

Some games works fine like The Binding Of Isaac, FTL, L4D 2, The Walking Dead, Poker Night 2 but all the "big" games like Borderlands 2, Mass effect 2, Deus Ex or Chivalry won't anymore ... They worked fine some weeks ago when i was playing them. I never had this problem and i don't know what triggered it ..

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BVL3K Aug 5, 2013 @ 5:21am

No one knows anything about this, really ?

BVL3K Aug 7, 2013 @ 11:42pm

Seriously, guys i don't how to explain my problem more clearly ...

BVL3K Aug 12, 2013 @ 7:15am

Bump again just in case ...

Avizzo Aug 16, 2013 @ 10:58am

I had the same problem and just looked it up! You're welcome! :D

YouTube™ Video: GAMES Minimizing to Desktop (problem Solved) keep crashing to Desktop

You're in the middle of an online game and suddenly your game minimizes, and not the first time either, this has been happening constantly.

BVL3K Aug 16, 2013 @ 11:43am

I really appreciate your answer man, unfortunately my problem doesn't come from this : /

Thanks anyway !

Avizzo Aug 16, 2013 @ 1:46pm

Well I'm sorry that didn't help. But your problem says that your games minimize, just like mine did, so I looked up how to fix it.

Bishop Knight Nov 14, 2013 @ 7:51pm

Originally posted by Mictlan:
So each time i try to launch a game it minimize and when I click on it I get one sec of the menu's music and it minimize again before the screen even load, so I know the game is running (not crashed or whatever) but i can't play it, i can't access anything of the game.

All my non-steam games are fine.
I tried unistall/reinstall the games/steam but the problem is still here.
I disabled the in-game steam community thing but that changed nothing.

Some games works fine like The Binding Of Isaac, FTL, L4D 2, The Walking Dead, Poker Night 2 but all the "big" games like Borderlands 2, Mass effect 2, Deus Ex or Chivalry won't anymore ... They worked fine some weeks ago when i was playing them. I never had this problem and i don't know what triggered it ..

Did you ever figure it out? I was having the same problem and tried updating my drivers, thinking it was the nvidia beta drivers I installed for Battlefield 4 beta. After updating to latest current drivers I was still having the same problem. I turned off just about everything that I could. Then I remembered I have RivaTuner on. I changed the "Application detection level" to "None" and my problem is solved. If you use RivaTuner, you might want to play around with the "Application detection level" settings. It might solve your problem.

theguynamedguy Dec 13, 2013 @ 9:00pm

Did you ever solve your problem? I have the exact same problem, and none of the things suggested in this thread apply to me, so I'm still having the problem.

BVL3K Dec 14, 2013 @ 1:48am

Same here, i think the problem comes from my graphic card or the drivers, it is seriously pissing me off, i tried every fricking things and none of them worked so i'm planning on rebooting my computer and see if it's still there ...

Davey Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:42am

I have the same problem, and guys I know have it as well, really sucks

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credowings Mar 15, 2014 @ 8:05pm

Did you ever figure this out? I started having this issue with only Steam games.

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Burt Macklin Apr 18, 2014 @ 11:03am

I had this issue with my laptop, although it would only happen when I was trying to play on a monitor through a hdmi cable. I was able to fix it by setting the screens to only display on monitor 2 instead of mirroring them.

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Blake Blair Jun 5, 2014 @ 6:25pm

same here lenovo ideapad with nvidia geforce GT750M and i7 processor and 8GB RAM. Also, I'd like to specify that this is occuring upon clicking PLAY NOW not in the middle of gameplay.

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