Overwatch minimizes randomly in full screen mode

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Overwatch will randomly minimize during the middle of games. This can happen anywhere from 5 minutes after I turn on the game to hours later. There doesn’t seem to be any patterns or reasoning as to why this happens; it’ll just minimize out of the game and back to my desktop screen when it feels like it.

I don’t know what to do. I’ve looked up the issue and most people suggest using Windows Focus Logger (which I haven’t gotten to work) or something to do with TeamViewer (which I don’t even have installed). I personally think some process on my computer is stealing focus away from Overwatch, but I have no idea what it is as there’s never a pop-up. I’ve even tried making Overwatch high priority, telling the computer to prioritize it over other things, but that still doesn’t matter.

I’m desperate to fix this. The issue may seem inconsequential but it’s really annoying being in the middle of a fight and the game suddenly minimizes, and by the time I click back in I’m dead and possibly responsible for losing a team fight.

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Hey Sigma,

What may help would be to reboot using Selective Startup steps below, and that’ll completely disable all non-essential processes and services from running when you start up Windows. Then if the problem stops happening you can go back through and start enabling things to narrow down what specifically was causing the minimizing.

  1. Press Windows Key+R.
  2. Type msconfig and press Enter.
  3. Select Selective startup and uncheck Load startup items.
  4. Select the Services tab.
  5. Check Hide all Microsoft services.
    Note: Skipping this step may prevent your computer from rebooting correctly.
  6. Click Disable all.
  7. Click Apply then click OK.
  8. Click Restart.
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You can also try Window Focus Logger to see what’s stealing focus. Usually it’s a security app or the GPU driver crashing/rebooting.

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I did this fix and now razer synapse 3 wont start and give me non-stop “do you want to allow this application to make changes to your device?”