Game locked as minimized window

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Hello,

We were having a weird issue on our game for a moment. It only happened on 5 players, so it was hard to pinpoint but now I now we’re not the only one with the issue.

here is what happens when we launch the game:

randomly, on PC, the game starts with this minimized tray, and it’s impossible to make it fullscreen because it’s resolution is super low.

I experienced the same issue with another game (not mine) called Littlewood.
So I found that the issue was caused by 3 parameters in the registry:

Screenmanager Fullscreen mode_h3630240806 : set to 3
Screenmanager Resolution Height_h2627697771 : set to 1
Screenmanager Resolution Width_h182942802 : set to 144

So randomly, the game decides to run in a 1x144 resolution.

I tried to check the resolution ingame using Screen.currentResolution, but it says it’s running at 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz

So it would seem I have to way to check ingame if the resolution is correct because it doesn’t match the reality.

Anyone else had this issue or knows how to solve it?

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Screen.currentResolution returns the desktop resolution when running in windowed mode, not the game resolution. You should check for Screen.width/Screen.height instead.

I’ve seen this happen before, it was a result of a bad Screen.SetResolution call that set the resolution to 0x0.

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Ah great! thank you very much, Screen.height made the patch work.

For anyone looking for an easy patch, I used this in the bootstrap:

if (Screen.height < 10)
        {
            Screen.SetResolution(Screen.resolutions[0].width, Screen.resolutions[0].height, FullScreenMode.Windowed);
        }