Game constantly minimising to Taskbar - please help

Drenboy · 28-05-2008, 11:13 PM

Dear all,

I played the demo of Crysis no problem, so I bought and installed the full game and patched it up (1.1, 1.2 and 1.2.1).

I started it up and was able to set controls and graphics and the game looks and runs fine (no frame lag) in the cut scenes and the game itself, except...for some strange reason, every 10 to 15 seconds or so it reduces down into a tab in my Windows XP Taskbar. I click on the tab and the game maximises again and I resume it, but then it reduces down again.

This is, of course, rather annoying. Any ideas how to combat this?
All help greatly appreciated.

SKYWALKMAN2 · 29-05-2008, 10:10 AM

It will be you hitting the windows key on your keyboard, i hade this problem, If you have a gamer keyboard you can disable the windows key(next to the left control key) or if not just pull the key out

Drenboy · 30-05-2008, 09:23 AM

Thanks for the help.

The actual problem was a Crysis folder left over from the demo (which I had uninstalled) in my documents\my games, which conflicted with the full game. I deleted this and the full game created a new one automatically, and then it ran like a dream (hooray!).

Cheers then,

Drenboy

EAUK_Phenom · 31-05-2008, 12:08 PM

I'm glad to hear that you resolved the problem, and that you posted how you fixed it (so that if anyone else encounters this, they'll know how to fix it too).

Phenom

28-05-2008, 11:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
Drenboy Rookie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2	Game constantly minimising to Taskbar - please help Dear all, I played the demo of Crysis no problem, so I bought and installed the full game and patched it up (1.1, 1.2 and 1.2.1). I started it up and was able to set controls and graphics and the game looks and runs fine (no frame lag) in the cut scenes and the game itself, except...for some strange reason, every 10 to 15 seconds or so it reduces down into a tab in my Windows XP Taskbar. I click on the tab and the game maximises again and I resume it, but then it reduces down again. This is, of course, rather annoying. Any ideas how to combat this? All help greatly appreciated.

29-05-2008, 10:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
SKYWALKMAN2 Rookie Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 104	It will be you hitting the windows key on your keyboard, i hade this problem, If you have a gamer keyboard you can disable the windows key(next to the left control key) or if not just pull the key out __________________ QX6850 - BFG280GTX OC2 - PC8500 ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME IS THE BEST GAME ON THE PLANET

30-05-2008, 09:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
Drenboy Rookie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2	Problem solved! Thanks for the help. The actual problem was a Crysis folder left over from the demo (which I had uninstalled) in my documents\my games, which conflicted with the full game. I deleted this and the full game created a new one automatically, and then it ran like a dream (hooray!). Cheers then, Drenboy

31-05-2008, 12:08 PM	#4 (permalink)
EAUK_Phenom Retired Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 2,803 Blog Entries: 12	I'm glad to hear that you resolved the problem, and that you posted how you fixed it (so that if anyone else encounters this, they'll know how to fix it too). Phenom