Stupid Problem... Please Read!

[petey_chalflife]

So I've been playing half life 2 through nicely before this problem, nothing wrong, just good fun with a good game. This doesn't really seem like a big problem but its starting to piss me off, I start the game, and then it starts up, shows the valve dude with the valve for an eye... then it goes black... shows the trade mark stuff, and then it just shows the main screen there and it says loading in the bottom like usual. Then all a sudden though the game just minimizes itself... it stays running at the bottom of my screen on my taskbar. Whenever I try to reopen it though it just minimizes again. I have tried shutting off my computer and logging off and stuff but it seems to keep doing it, and it's very irratating since I haven't played now in two days. The only other things open are the steam crap... I dunno, I have no computer knowledge really and any hints on whatever is happening would be greatly appreciated, thanks for reading. Peace. ;(

 

[giant384]

usally its spyware or adaware that does that just do a check with S&D and adaware

 

[doomed - uk]

Valve has a little program which resets the HL2 video options here.

Might be worth a try.

 

[DSDchemE]

I'm not sure about this, but it could be a program running in the background. I've had a few cases where I clicked on the taskbar button but the focus shifted back to the desktop, which of course minimized the game again. "ONETOUCH.EXE" causes this sometimes (it's used for advanced keyboard features like volume control).

Check to see if there's anything else that might be getting the focus. If you can find it and it's not needed, then use the task manager to close it (just don't exit any vital processes by mistake).

Hope this helps. Good luck

 

[giant384]

have u not looked at my post its spyware or some anonymous program running in the background when i played halo it minmized over and over every minute. i have a program called ramboost.exe dont know how i got it. but i go to delete it manually but it wont let me anyone know a way of deleting it. its in the windows folder