Windows 10 keeps minimising Rome II
Before, Rome II worked smoothly with no issues. Since yesterday, each time Rome II launches, it's minimised during loading. It's then minimised again, about once every two minutes, during game-play. I start Steam, then click on Rome II, then click 'Play' in the box. The loading screen appears and then vanishes. A tab with the Rome II icon appears in the bar at the bottom of my screen. If I click on the tab, initially nothing happens. After a while, the game pops up again and fills the screen normally. However, after loading a campaign, within a minute after I start playing, it will be minimised again. This keeps happening - until this problem is fixed, Rome II will be effectively unplayable on my computer.
I tried the following:
1. Verifying the files for Rome II. (When I verified the files, no problems were detected). The problem remained.
2. Telling Windows 10 to use desktop mode and not to use tablet mode, explained here. The problem remained.
3. Cutting and pasting my save files and replays to another location, deleting my C:/Users/[my user name]/AppData/Roaming/The Creative Assembly/Rome 2 folder and starting the game. This made a difference once, when I started the game without any saved game files in C:/Users/[my user name]/AppData/Roaming/The Creative Assembly/Rome 2/save_games. However, when I copied my saved games back into that folder, the problem happened again.
4. A complete reinstall (delete the Rome 2 folder as above, right-click on Rome II in the Steam Library and uninstall, then install). This initially solved the problem, the game ran normally when there were no saved game files in C:/Users/[my user name]/AppData/Roaming/The Creative Assembly/Rome 2/save_games. However, the next time I started the game (having played part of a campaign and saved), the problem happened again, even during the game's initial loading screen before I had asked it to load a save.
5. Running the game as an administrator and running it in compatibility mode for Windows 7. When I tried this, the game wouldn't start. A box popped up headed 'Allow game launch?' saying that "Rome II Emperor addition is attempting to launch with the optional parameters shown below". Instead of optional parameters, the box showed the location on my hard drive of the Rome II.exe file. When I clicked OK to launch the game, the box closed but the game didn't start.
6. Running the game normally (not as an administrator) and in compatibility mode for Windows 8. The game began to start but it was minimised during loading again.
7. Changing the screen resolution. The problem remained.
The problem still remains. When playing, I don't have any other programs running in the background (except for Avast antivirus and whatever software runs automatically).
Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone know how to tell Windows 10 to stop minimising Rome II?
Last edited by Alwyn; August 29, 2018 at 11:07 AM.