Achievement notifications minimizes game

@EA_LeeuwI think I have found why the EA App team hasn't been able to replicate this issue, and yet why all of us in this thread including myself have this issue.

The issue only occurs when the in-game overlay is disabled and a game is played in (exclusive) full-screen mode. In my case, I have only tried this with my EA games that I own on Steam; I have yet to test whether the games I own directly from EA have the same issue. Most importantly, achievement notifications ignore the enable/disable notifications setting in the EA App, an oversight that the team may want to fix as well.

Since the in-game overlay is disabled, the EA App forces Windows to show achievement notifications on the foreground, not unlike the Task Manager functionality of "always show on foreground". This automatically Alt+Tabs games and brings them out of focus, thus losing control of the game (regardless of us using KB+M or a controller) and usually minimising the game window as well.

You've mentioned not running a game in exclusive fullscreen as a workaround, but I have a better workaround: enable the in-game overlay (and, if you want to, disable notifications).

I can confirm this does not conflict with the Steam overlay, including Steam Big Picture Mode. However, I have found in Mass Effect LE that it will temporarily unfocus and 'freeze' the game for 2 seconds after leaving the Steam overlay (though not in the sense of crashing / unresponsiveness). I cannot reproduce this 'freezing' when disabling the EA and enabling the Steam overlay, but this side issue may not exist for other games, and in my opinion it is a slight nuisance rather than a gameplay-interrupting issue like the one this thread is about. I should note Origin did not have this issue and integrated with Steam more elegantly.

So what the EA App devs need to fix is:
1) Make "disable notifications" also disable achievement notifications, and/or:
2) Make achievement notifications not force Windows to show them in the foreground when the EA overlay is disabled, and optionally:

3) Make the EA in-game overlay integrate better with the Steam in-game overlay, so that leaving the Steam overlay does not freeze a game until a few seconds after leaving said overlay.