Apex legends keeps minimizing.

I also experience this problem. I have two monitors and if I click anything on my second monitor, Apex minimizes. Borderless window doesn't minimize but it seems like there's a hit to FPS. I do notice it seems like my monitor's ICC profile only applies to the borderless window mode so it looks better, but I think there's a hit to performance. I haven't turned on a FPS counter yet to verify.

i7 8700k

32GB RAM

GTX 970 4GB

1080p resolution on primary monitor

1680x1050 on secondary monitor

I have same issue- I can get game to run in windowed or borderless windowed but will minimize everytime i set it to full screen.  Only resolution I've found is to either reinstall apex or reinstall Nvidia drivers and then it'll work for a day maybe and then it does it again.  Please help.  I've tried most of the resolutions in this thread already but so far the only way I've found to fix are the two ways I've mentioned and they only fix temporarily.

@TheWormerine 

Can you attach a DxDiag for us? If you're on a laptop, try launching the game through the GeForce Experience if you have an Nvidia card.

How to Pull a DxDiag

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

@EA_Blueberry 

Hi Blueberry- thanks for the quick reply. I am on a laptop running with external GPU to dual monitors. I tried launching from Geforce experience same result.  Attached is DxDiag.  This issue just started around 2 weeks ago maybe and had been playing since launch without this happening until recently.

@TheWormerine 

There is a new driver out for your RTX card. I'd recommend downloading that to see if it has an effect. With dual monitors, are you playing with 3 total or your laptop screen and the other monitor?

@EA_Blueberry 

Thanks for the reply. So the laptop plugs into an external GPU with the RTX card in it and then the 2 monitors plug into the external GPU.  It is just the 2 monitors only that are active/used and i keep the laptop screen de-activated. The external GPU/RTX card also runs to a capture card on a separate PC I use for streaming.

When I check in geforce experience it says I have 418.91 release date 2/13/19 and says its up to date/latest driver installed? I even just re-installed it yesterday to get Apex working last night but I will double check this and see if my Geforce Exp isn't picking up the latest. Thanks.

I see on nvidia's website that 419.67 is available so i'll manually download that and report back if still an issue- thanks again.

@EA_Blueberry 

Updated to 419.67 for the rtx2080 2 days ago. fixed it immediately for last two days and now today its back to minimizing again whether i launch from desktop, origins, or geforce experience.  Any other suggestions to try?

I have the same issue. Seems to come with random Nvidia patches. 

I created another user with administrator right in my windows 10 (type "Add, Edit or Remove User" at the search bar.

Then "Signed Out" from windows 10 and re logged in using the new created user.

My programs are there (need not be reinstall) and played Apex right away..

I had been doing this whenever I encounter  problems with any games. So normally I create a dedicated User for gaming purposes only to enable them to be deleted once new user is create.

This saves me time from troubleshooting which is a painstaking tasks.

ps... i notice this also resolves some of the lagging issues in Apex and Fortnite.

Hey there,

had the exact same problem after upgrading from win 7 to win 10.

Thought about the taskbar displaying on all three monitors, and this maing a problem, didn't work.

BUT unplugging my second HDMI-Monitor (main is DisplayPort) and my third DVI Monitor, started the game and it just started up as it did on win 7.

The same thing was with Batman Arkham City / Knight. Didn't start on win 10.

No second and/or third monitor pluggeds in works.

Hope this will fix it for more people.

I also tried many other things for hours and hours.