Am I the only one having the game keep minimizing to desktop? I played fine for 5 hours then suddenly my game minimized itself. The game is still running, I can hear the music, but I can't get it to stay open on my screen for the life of me. Every time I click on the icon on the taskbar to bring it back up it just goes right back to desktop. I know xbox is crashing but I can't find anything about PC issues. I'm trying to stream it tomorrow and I literally can't play. I bought through Origin.

@emd281 In most cases, a background programme is responsible for such problems. Disable any background task you have and test.

I'm also having this problem - seems to happen to me if I try to change my fullscreen resolution to anything other than my native resolution. My native resolution is 3840 x 2160, but if I try to set the ingame resolution to 2560 x 1440 the game minimises itself and clicking on the taskbar or alt-tabbing cause it to flash up for a few seconds and then minimise it again.I have all my background apps closed as far as possible, so that's not the issue here. The game isn't handling lower resolutions correctly.Edit: a possible solution at the moment is to wait until the graphics settings revert themselves (since you won't be able to accept them), then try setting the resolution again. This seemed to work for be, but could be a fluke.Edit again: unfortunately though, the only way to fix the problem if the settings were already set (and you're just starting up the game again) is to edit the config files.After more experimentation, closing Discord seems to fix the problem? Although it could just be a random thing again.

@emd281 wrote:Am I the only one having the game keep minimizing to desktop? I played fine for 5 hours then suddenly my game minimized itself. The game is still running, I can hear the music, but I can't get it to stay open on my screen for the life of me. Every time I click on the icon on the taskbar to bring it back up it just goes right back to desktop. I know xbox is crashing but I can't find anything about PC issues. I'm trying to stream it tomorrow and I literally can't play. I bought through Origin. Try:- Disabling the Origin in game overlay- Running the game in windowed (borderless) if you normally run it fullscreen or vice versa. - Ensure you are running the most current stable build of your video drivers and/or windows.Also, check to see if there are any programs or windows settings that are checking for updates. This can potentially yank you out of a game. Windows 10 updates do it to me all the time if I don't go in regularly to update.

Finally got it to work I updated every little thing I could I found a windows update trough a secondary app and now it works. I guess you need to update your windows drivers. Never did this before. I played 150 hours before with no problem.

Nope this is due to having two or more monitors and the game even at fullscreen allows the mouse to move to the other monitor, when you click to shoot and this is the case, the game minimizes. * worst remaster ever.

Game keeps minimizing to desktop?

28 Replies

holger1405
Hero+
5 years ago
@emd281

In most cases, a background programme is responsible for such problems.
Disable any background task you have and test.
XXLpeanuts
5 years ago
Nope this is due to having two or more monitors and the game even at fullscreen allows the mouse to move to the other monitor, when you click to shoot and this is the case, the game minimizes. * worst remaster ever.
joshuajohnlee
5 years ago
I'm also having this problem - seems to happen to me if I try to change my fullscreen resolution to anything other than my native resolution. My native resolution is 3840 x 2160, but if I try to set the ingame resolution to 2560 x 1440 the game minimises itself and clicking on the taskbar or alt-tabbing cause it to flash up for a few seconds and then minimise it again.
I have all my background apps closed as far as possible, so that's not the issue here. The game isn't handling lower resolutions correctly.
Edit: a possible solution at the moment is to wait until the graphics settings revert themselves (since you won't be able to accept them), then try setting the resolution again. This seemed to work for be, but could be a fluke.
Edit again: unfortunately though, the only way to fix the problem if the settings were already set (and you're just starting up the game again) is to edit the config files.
After more experimentation, closing Discord seems to fix the problem? Although it could just be a random thing again.
aFlamingPansy
5 years ago
It happens to me during the same spot in the first cutscene after creating a character in ME1, at the same point every time and I can't go back into the game. Which means ME1 is unplayable for me.
Aveliexa
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I'm having a similar issue where my game will randomly minimize when I have no background programs open other than origin, but when I click on the icon the game reopens for me.
drkhelmet77
5 years ago
So if I disable my second monitor it should work?
redemmie
5 years ago
@emd281 I've shut down my second monitor shut down/deleted background programs like steam/origin overlays. The problem persists. What is odd that its intermittent. I've played 62 hours, finished ME1, and now playing ME2. I am unable to play anymore due to this issue.
emd281
5 years ago
I never found a solution for the issue. I got so upset that I bought the game again through steam on release day and got a refund on the origin version.
redemmie
5 years ago
@emd281 I purchased my copy from Steam.
jscg
5 years ago
This is happening to me too. I don't have two monitors, I've set the game to be highest priority, and I don't have anything else running. It's super fun when it suddenly minimizes during a battle...