Curse

Silver hunter · Apr 25, 2006, 08:44 PM // 20:44

My Gw screen randomly closes and its getting really annoying, have any of you been having this problem? It keeps happening about every minute or so..... My system specs are all greatly above the requirements for the game so im at a loss... Any suggestions?

Witchblade · Apr 25, 2006, 08:47 PM // 20:47

any popup from an active program that might cause that?

Silver hunter · Apr 25, 2006, 09:11 PM // 21:11

No, i only have GW running...

Witchblade · Apr 25, 2006, 09:14 PM // 21:14

u should check what processes are running.. we never know

cannonfodder · Apr 25, 2006, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Do you have Real player installed?, if so remove it.

The reason I say this is not because of guild wars but oblivion, it was doing exactly this, and once I found out it could be real player I got rid, no problems anymore.

Give it a shot if you can, it may work.

Scourage of Death · Apr 25, 2006, 09:46 PM // 21:46

I had this...i ran spybot ad adawre and norton antivirus and after the 3 it stopped happening...also it happened when i first got game hasnt happened in like 6 monthes or so...I remeber gtting an unusally spywhere on spybot(maybe thats it)

art_ · Apr 25, 2006, 09:47 PM // 21:47

You aren't accidently hitting the windows key are you

blackpawn · Apr 26, 2006, 03:47 AM // 03:47

does anything weird happen when you run in windowed mode?

Nay of the Ether · Aug 17, 2012, 05:19 AM // 05:19

Sorry to necro the thread, but one of my guildies is having this issue now, was wondering if anyone had a solution other than a spyware scan (which we have already done as well as reformat the hd, this is a recent problem, so hardware configuration is most likely not it)

Quaker · Aug 17, 2012, 01:22 PM // 13:22

It's most likely some process running in the background that takes "focus" regularly. Check in the systray for any small apps that are running, such as a "media detector".
You can also run MSconfig to check what apps are loading at startup and selectively disable them and see if the problem then stops (after a re-boot).

BFG · Aug 17, 2012, 10:54 PM // 22:54

The first suspect I'd look at is your antivirus program. Some, like AVG, were known to cause the problem that you're having in the newer versions. However, they may have fixed this (some have 'gaming" mode that you can enable). Another possibility could be taskbars, docked items, or other GUI pretties that you may have installed, which you can troubleshoot by simply disabling them temporarily.

Next, check your in-game key mapping. Is a certain key that you press causing the game to minimize to desktop? If that's the case, the following step would be to find the culprit program to which that key may be shared.

Another thing to try is to press CTRL+Shift+Esc to bring up Task Manager and keep that open while you play your game. Focus on CPU usage and give it a look as soon as the minimizing occurs. This could point you to a process that's taking focus and causing your game to minimize.

Most likely it's something running in the background that's taking focus. The fun part now is to find it and beat it into submission with a blunt object.