Startup Screen & Mortal Kombat 11 (Steam)

[TVsIan13]

I usually tweak my startup settings per-game for Steam to try to hide the launching as much as possible, but MK11 is being a little weird.

For some reason, the startup screen will always fade out (literally fade, not go away instantly or anything) at around 3-5 seconds, and Launchbox will show up again. If I don't have aggressive startup window hiding on, the MK11 splash window will appear, then in another few seconds the game starts. It completely ignores the timeout settings or the hide all non-exclusive mode windows setting. I've tried both the DX11 and DX12 versions, and setting it to both fullscreen windowed and fullscreen exclusive and get the same behavior.

I don't THINK it's actually an issue with LB, since I tried Dragon Ball FighterZ (which also has a long startup, and is set for 30 seconds), and that behaved normally. It looks like this particular game is doing something weird to clear the screen before launching that I haven't seen any other game do.

Has anybody else run into this, and found a way around it? I've used AHK scripts to get around launchers on some Steam games, but I can't figure out what this one is doing, much less how to avoid it.

[Retro808]

4 hours ago, TVsIan13 said:

I usually tweak my startup settings per-game for Steam to try to hide the launching as much as possible, but MK11 is being a little weird.

For some reason, the startup screen will always fade out (literally fade, not go away instantly or anything) at around 3-5 seconds, and Launchbox will show up again. If I don't have aggressive startup window hiding on, the MK11 splash window will appear, then in another few seconds the game starts. It completely ignores the timeout settings or the hide all non-exclusive mode windows setting. I've tried both the DX11 and DX12 versions, and setting it to both fullscreen windowed and fullscreen exclusive and get the same behavior.

I don't THINK it's actually an issue with LB, since I tried Dragon Ball FighterZ (which also has a long startup, and is set for 30 seconds), and that behaved normally. It looks like this particular game is doing something weird to clear the screen before launching that I haven't seen any other game do.

Has anybody else run into this, and found a way around it? I've used AHK scripts to get around launchers on some Steam games, but I can't figure out what this one is doing, much less how to avoid it.

LB/BB Startups will not work perfectly with all windows games. It is something Jason has mentioned since the implementation of this option. So there are going to be hits and misses.