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Minimizing on startup

May 21, 2007 9:39:36 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I've been having a problem getting the game to actually stay on the screen when I start it up. It invariably minimizes immediately and if I try to restore the window to full-screen mode it stays up for maybe a frame (if I'm lucky) and then immediately minimizes again.

I can't imagine I'm the only one having this problem (it's not an issue that's isolated to SoaSE), but I'm having a hell of a time finding any mention of it anywhere. I think it could be related to my widescreen monitor (a Samsung SyncMaster 226bw), but I'm not sure. Is anyone else plagued by this?

This wouldn't actually fix the problem, but is there some way outside of the game (a config file or registry setting) I could use to put the game into a specific resolution, or into windowed mode? Maybe that would at least let me play the game.
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Reply #1 May 21, 2007 9:46:14 AM
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I had the same problem, when i had other open programs running, like windows media player, and classic.

Try closing all your programs before running the game, and see if that helps
well it did for me
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Reply #2 May 21, 2007 10:04:40 AM
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Aha! Thanks that led me to the problem. I had tried that before with no success, but this time I noticed Folding@Home was still running. Even though it runs as a tray icon, and even though I had it 'paused' (meaning it shouldn't have been actually doing anything) it was making SoaSE minimize. I shut that off, restored the game and it stayed. After alt-tabbing out to start F@H again, the problem came back. I think that was the culprit.
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Reply #3 May 21, 2007 10:09:25 AM
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Cool, nice to know it worked out for ya
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Reply #4 May 21, 2007 1:13:33 PM
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I've seen this, too, but it isn't limited to Sins, and I mostly ignore it.
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Reply #5 May 21, 2007 1:21:18 PM
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I couldn't actually ignore it if I wanted to play the game, since it would minimize every time I tried to restore the window. But it's all good now.
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Reply #6 May 21, 2007 2:13:03 PM
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but this time I noticed Folding@Home was still running

Most games don't like folding@home. The game just minizes again as soon as you open it up. Still, the manuals always say that you "need to close all programs running in the background" for best effect
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