CalmGamer

I can’t call it a definitive test but I disabled one drive, windows security and HD sound and so far it hasn’t lost focus on me in 20mins of playing. I may reactivate windows security at some point and see if it returns.

I will try this later tonight and report back. I think it is mostly happening upon first boot so there must be something stealing focus.

There are tons out there. Here is one. I tried the fixes suggested and it didn’t help https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/games_windows_10/windows-10-minimizing-any-games-automatically-at/7f9fba10-fb15-41f1-8c3b-a2e8e8542b8f

Yeah, I’m all up to date and I’ve tried to deactivate any windows shortcuts. Does seem to be a windows problem. lots of people are complaining about it.

It does appear to be a Mame or windows issue. I ran Mame and it occasionally will just minimize itself even if I’m not touching the controls. Super strange.

Yes. It happens in LaunchBox too. im going to try run Mame on its own In case that’s where the issue is.

Everything is stock. I didn’t touch any of the default settings as far as I’m aware. ive included some screenshots. I thought it may have been a mouse issue as even when hidden, the mouse highlights items in the menus but I did switch off mouse options and it’s still having issues. thanks

I have the latest windows 10 with LaunchBox 10.10 and ledblinky. That’s all I have on the machine I tried turning on the game loading screen but it immediately popped up a game over screen and moved the Mame window into the background (the game wasn’t even over). I also tried turning back on the big box splash screen to see if that would give focus. It’s certainly a weird and frustrating problem.

Hi, I’m having an annoying issue with big box which hopefully someone can help me with. for some reason when I play a game(I only have Mame at moment) bigbox will suddenly do an equivalent of an alt tab and bring itself to the foreground. I can hear the game still playing in the background and have to alt tab back to it. it has done this without me touching any controls so I’m not sending and keystroke to trigger it. ive also tried deactivating mouse across all platforms but that didn’t help. I’ve also turned off startup and game over screens in case this was causing a focus issue. Thanks