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A pain in the ass

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First post, by marooned_on_mars

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I try to run a game and then suddenly windows is minimising it and returns to the console window ... what should i do to stop this ? 😕

Reply 1 of 8, by wd

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Depends.

Reply 2 of 8, by marooned_on_mars

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Depends on ... ?

Reply 3 of 8, by Freddo

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Various things.

Reply 4 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

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Are you running any background apps that may interfere?

Intel i7 5960X
Gigabye GA-X99-Gaming 5
8 GB DDR4 (2100)
8 GB GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming (Gigabyte)

Reply 5 of 8, by marooned_on_mars

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hmmm ... that stupid windows update thing was running but i will try now to see if it works.
Edit : nope ... it is still minimising the game window after 1 second and shows me the console window 😵

Reply 6 of 8, by cmw

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Do you run on a Laptop with some Synaptics Touchpad Software installed? If so, try to stop that first...
Also stop Winamp if running.

Reply 7 of 8, by h-a-l-9000

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what game... console window name?

1+1=10

Reply 8 of 8, by marooned_on_mars

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No ... i`m not useing a laptop and i donnot run winamp or touchpad software
it`s the console window of dos box that starts when i start dos box