Games minimize frequently during gameplay.

[Roberts]

I've searched for the possible solution to my problem and still have come up with nothing. I've been experience frequent minimizing of my games while I play them (this applies to every game I've played). From what I've read, its possible that a program running that's causing this to happen?

All drivers are up to date (as of 5/25). I will post links to screenshots of my task manager (while running Kingdoms of Amalur) and my system specs. Thanks for reading, hopefully some of y'all can help me. Let me know if you need anything else.

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[_I_]

you can uninstall akamai netsession
its used to download stuff and share stuff its downloaded (ads and videos on pages, and nteflix)


are you hitting the xbox button? that can cause some games to minmise and bring up the xbox controller status box

try removing some stuff from startup
start -> msconfig -> startup tab and untick things that are not needed
ex. xbox stat, origin, divx update, daemon tools, realtek audio (this isnt the driver, its a tool to configure it and not needed), hpwusched (hp update tool), nvidia tray ect..

[Roberts]

Great! So I've followed your steps and I will test it out later today. As for the xbox controller, I've experienced the problem even when its not plugged in, so I know I'm not accidently hitting buttons.

[Pant]

Sometimes things like antivirus software might minimize a full screen application when they auto update, I've had adobe and windows update do it too.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Yeah some background program is taking focus away from the games, ull just have to figure out which program is doing it.

any program you dont need to be running should be closed before gaming though.

i dont recommend messing with msconfig. just go in each program and stop it from loading at startup if you dont need it to.