Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Annoying problem
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This has probably been posted before, but I didnt see it... While Im playing Halo it minimizes itself to my desktop, I know all I have to do is click on it to get it back but it becomes a rather large annoyance when it happens repeatedibly.

Comp Specs:
Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
AMD 2800 XP
Windows XP
512MB Ram
120Gig Hard Drive


[Edited on 8/26/2004 11:42:49 PM]

  • 08.26.2004 11:39 PM PDT
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What other programs do you have running while you're playing? Any IMs, browser windows, etc.? Is there anything flashing down in the taskbar when the game minimizes?

  • 08.27.2004 12:33 AM PDT
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Nope, no other programs are running....

  • 08.27.2004 1:36 AM PDT
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its probably a pop up. even though nothing shows up, i have that same problem

  • 08.27.2004 3:14 PM PDT
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Huh... that still sounds pretty suspicious... that, and it's just about impossible to have no other applications/services running in the background anymore nowadays.

I'm not sure what else could cause Halo to minimize like that other than another application stealing the window focus. If I were you, I'd double-check my system by running an up-to-date spyware checker like Ad-Aware.

Oh, and be sure you're not hitting the Windows key on your keyboard. That will sometimes cause games to minimize to the desktop. Not sure about Halo in this case, but it's worth mentioning.

  • 08.27.2004 6:08 PM PDT
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I have Ad-Aware. And it cant be a pop-up cause sometimes itll happen once, then ill click it to maximize and itll act like it wants to maximize but itll go right back down again. I love Halo and all, but this is getting so annoying especially when Im in the middle of a fight, it makes me want to stop playin all together.

  • 08.27.2004 9:01 PM PDT
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Someone please help me out, I love playin the game, but the minimization is takin all the fun out of it, it keeps gettin me killed. Theres gotta be somthin else.

  • 08.28.2004 3:07 PM PDT
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Hmm, mine does that too, but only when Norton wants to run a Live Update and I'm playing. But you said nothing pops up right? I don't know then.

  • 08.28.2004 6:30 PM PDT
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You might post a list of the active processes on your machine and maybe we can help you out. Halo doen't just minimize by itself. Something else has to steal its active window state in order for it to do crap like that, thus why me and CabooseMoose are suggesting popups/spyware/other harmless apps. Something external to Halo is causing this problem, I'm willing to bet. It is certainly possible someone else might have experience suggesting otherwise, but if there is, we aren't seeing them post in this thread. :P

  • 08.29.2004 1:06 AM PDT
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I think I figured it out, Im not exactly sure, but it hasnt minimized in awhile. I dont know why, but I changed my button config and it doesnt do it anymore... Yet its hard for me to believe that it was my button config because it didnt just happen when I pressed a certain button, because I could be playing a long time pressing the same buttons without it minimizing. But it hasnt minimized yet, so at the sacrafice of the button settings Im use to, I fixed it.

My button config was:
To move around I use the Arrows
Jump: NUM 0, or Ins
Crouch: NUM 1, or End
Reload: Shift
Action: \ (which I just now realized that Action can reload too)
and pretty much everything else with my mouse.

Now which one of those would minimize Halo?

  • 08.29.2004 1:05 PM PDT