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[Archived] alt+tabbing from osu closes it

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Natahotra
134 posts
Joined September 2015
Topic Starter
Natahotra
Sometimes when I ALT+TAB from osu! the game somehow triggers the boss key or something and goes to the tray in my taskbar and refuses to open itself back up
(I actually cannot get onto #help most of the time because it won't work, once I did there was not a solution)

i don't know why it does this, or how this happens but it is very irritating, is a fix possible?

osu! version: 20170103.2 (latest)
o x
1,528 posts
Joined May 2015
o x
Go into your settings and make sure that your boss key isnt linked to alt or tab.
Natahotra
134 posts
Joined September 2015
Topic Starter
Natahotra
It's not, I checked that multiple times along with rebinding it
Kao
1,869 posts
Joined September 2015
Kao
When it goes to taskbar, open osu! Normally (not from the taskbar)
It should open again.

Also try running in safe mode and run osu! And try again.
This will prevent from any background programs to interfere.
Natahotra
134 posts
Joined September 2015
Topic Starter
Natahotra
Any form of trying to open osu does not work, but I'll give safe mode a try.

edit: safe mode didn't work for me
Kao
1,869 posts
Joined September 2015
Kao
Could you try enabling compatibility mode?
Natahotra
134 posts
Joined September 2015
Topic Starter
Natahotra
sorry for late reply, slept in for a while
compatibility mode makes it happen less often but it doesnt fix it completely, also drops my framerate alot
Kao
1,869 posts
Joined September 2015
Kao
Could you try moving out osu!.<username>.cfg out of the osu! Folder and try to see if that helps?
*Take note this will log you out and reset settings. You can put it back later

If that doesn't help, try repairing osu!
Here are steps you can do to repair osu!
Method 1: Launch Repair Dialog
  1. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard.
  2. While holding Shift, double click the osu! icon on your desktop.
  3. Continue holding Shift until you see the recovery dialog prompt.
  4. From there, click on the "Repair osu!" option
Method 2: Shortcut
If you have the "repair osu!" Shortcut, opening that also works.


Method 3: Config Shortcut
If you don't have the "repair osu!" Shortcut, you can create one instead.
  1. Right click osu!.exe > Create a shortcut
  2. Open properties of the shortcut
    1. Select then Alt + Enter or
    2. Right click > Properties
  3. Set Target to ...\osu!.exe -config
  4. Press OK then open the shortcut
Method 4: Text document
You can also force the updater to run by creating a new text document in your osu! folder called "help". Right-click in an empty space in your osu! folder, and choose New > Text Document.
SPOILER
Name it help and then run osu! to start the updater in forced maintenance mode.
Natahotra
134 posts
Joined September 2015
Topic Starter
Natahotra
Nothing much happened when trying those steps unfortunately. Have you possibly been able to replicate it? I saw on #help that some users had the same issue I do.
Furrious
51 posts
Joined August 2014
Furrious
I remember having this issue all the time when I had the game set to fullscreen mode. I stopped using fullscreen mode since the game would never open back up. I run Windowed Fullscreen now. It helps with minimizing the game and allows me to multitask.
Natahotra
134 posts
Joined September 2015
Topic Starter
Natahotra
ah, that seems to be doing something, its not seeming to happen now but its a little weird how it happens though
Kao
1,869 posts
Joined September 2015
Kao
If there's another solution that would be great as running in windowed mode would increase your latency and input lag
It isn't an actual fix to the problem yet
Natahotra
134 posts
Joined September 2015
Topic Starter
Natahotra
yeah. i hope a fix comes soon.
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