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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: AppleJuice on May 28, 2007, 12:07:18 am

Title: Game minimizes randomly. Also, fps spikes at night.
Post by: AppleJuice on May 28, 2007, 12:07:18 am

Greetings, all.  I have a very bothersome problem.  At times most inauspicious, tremulous minimizes to my desktop.  I have no other programs open, and I do not press any keys, such as the windows key.  Of this I am sure.  Might anyone know what causes this?

Also, another minor problem: My fps spikes from 90 to 30 every other second past 11 PM, GMT -5 EST.  The only solution to this that I have discovered is a simple reboot, but that destroys the flow of any game I am in, especially scrims.

Help would be appreciated. Many thanks.

Title: Game minimizes randomly. Also, fps spikes at night.
Post by: Steely Ann on May 28, 2007, 12:56:02 am

I'd usually make a lame joke about a person's tech problems, but your problem is just too suck-tacular. :(

Title: Game minimizes randomly. Also, fps spikes at night.
Post by: Dark-Shadow on May 28, 2007, 10:01:31 am

Actually I can't really help you, but maybe you should tell us, what OS you are using. I guess Windows?

Title: Re: Game minimizes randomly. Also, fps spikes at night.
Post by: Plague Bringer on May 28, 2007, 12:27:00 pm

Quote from: "AppleJuice"

Greetings, all.  I have a very bothersome problem.  At times most inauspicious, tremulous minimizes to my desktop.  I have no other programs open, and I do not press any keys, such as the windows key.  Of this I am sure.  Might anyone know what causes this?

Also, another minor problem: My fps spikes from 90 to 30 every other second past 11 PM, GMT -5 EST.  The only solution to this that I have discovered is a simple reboot, but that destroys the flow of any game I am in, especially scrims.

Help would be appreciated. Many thanks.

Most likely, yes.

Title: Game minimizes randomly. Also, fps spikes at night.
Post by: Dark-Shadow on May 28, 2007, 01:41:11 pm

ive read that, yeah, but my keyboard has a windows key too. and who knows, maybe he bound that key to a similar funcion like with windows.
im sorry about asking  :roll:

Title: Game minimizes randomly. Also, fps spikes at night.
Post by: David on May 28, 2007, 02:10:30 pm

Time related, I would guess either lag, from others on the network, or scheduled tasks.

Title: Game minimizes randomly. Also, fps spikes at night.
Post by: Sentinel on May 28, 2007, 07:32:19 pm

When XP or other win is, download this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

and hunt the problematic process