Game Minimizes By Itself When Fullscreen

**AweSam** · 09-10-2013, 09:16 AM

Hi, I'm running A:AMFP through Steam. The game seems to work fine in windowed mode, but when I set it to fullscreen, it minimizes to the taskbar (running Windows 7 64-bit) by itself. When I click the icon to maximize it, it re-minimizes itself immediately. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Specs:
i5-2500k
AMD Radeon 7870 Sapphire XT
AsRock P67 Mobo

~AweSam

**summit** · 09-10-2013, 09:20 AM

Are you sure that you did your all drivers' update?

Try to update your graphic card first, if you didn't.

**AweSam** · 09-10-2013, 09:34 AM

Yup, I'm running the latest drivers for all hardware. Actually, I might have to roll back my graphic card drivers; I'm running the 13.10 beta Catalyst driver. I will try the the older non-beta version and post my results.

~AweSam

**jens** · 09-10-2013, 09:38 AM

Hmm, if you have the steam overlay option enabled, can you try and disable it incase there is some conflict with it and the game?

**AweSam** · 09-10-2013, 09:43 AM

Hi Jens, I did try that, no success there. I'm thinking it might be a background process of some sort, thinking of booting into safe mode to see if that works.

~AweSam

**jens** · 09-10-2013, 09:45 AM

Could be something, possibly a program updating? I get a similar issue when for example java feels like updating.

**AweSam** · 09-10-2013, 09:54 AM

So I'm in safe mode (with networking enabled) and now I'm getting the BlackBox EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION that other people are getting. I don't know why it didn't show up when booting normally into Windows. Thanks for your help! Since there are other threads on this error, I think I'll look there for now.

~AweSam

EDIT: Looks like restarting back into Windows may have fixed the error and the weird minimizing thing! Not sure why, but it works great now!