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@Maasterash So even when the game kept minimizing in your existing user account, it ran fine in the new account? That strongly suggests something about your account settings. Did you happen to change anything in the new account right before the problem showed up? Did you change something earlier and then restart your computer right before the minimizing started, or perhaps start using another application in that account? Anything at all that you did might be relevant. And a change might not have taken full effect until after a restart.
I honestly did nothing with the new account other than start Sims as soon as I created it. I didn't even start with a clean boot. I played for an entire day with no problems, and pretty much resigned myself to just playing on an alternate account if that's what worked, put the computer into hibernate for the night and picked up the next day. It was running fine for several hours then in the middle of playing, the game suddenly minimized. Nothing else was open, not even origin. Then when I tried to open it from the taskbar, the problem started up all over again. Restarting the game did nothing to fix it and repair didn't either, and I didn't restart my computer.