Occasional minimize to desktop (not CTD)

[ESPY]

Has anyone experienced SH4 occasionally just randomly minimizing to the desktop? It’s not crashing, it’s more like I’ve alt-tabbed to the desktop, but it’s happening on its own. It’s not a big deal, I can always just click on the program in the taskbar and resume without issue, but it’s definitely surprising and annoying when it happens. Not sure if it’s the game, or some other process on my PC that’s causing it. This is happening with TMO BH Update 2.0 along with OTC and a handful of other mods, but I feel like it was also happening back with just TMO 2.5. I’m running in full screen mode, not windowed.

Thanks,
ESPY

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by ESPY

Has anyone experienced SH4 occasionally just randomly minimizing to the desktop? It’s not crashing, it’s more like I’ve alt-tabbed to the desktop, but it’s happening on its own. It’s not a big deal, I can always just click on the program in the taskbar and resume without issue, but it’s definitely surprising and annoying when it happens. Not sure if it’s the game, or some other process on my PC that’s causing it. This is happening with TMO BH Update 2.0 along with OTC and a handful of other mods, but I feel like it was also happening back with just TMO 2.5. I’m running in full screen mode, not windowed.

Thanks,
ESPY

yes.
this is a feature of Windows with SH4.
when this occurs, save your game to a newly-named save file and exit the game.
then restart and reload.
the reason is that once SH4 shells out to Windows, it will act strangely and also leave you vulnerable to other CTD's.