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Game self-miniamizes and locks out/Unable to locate a running instance of steam
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Description

game suddenly stopped, windows 7 displayed the animation of minimizing a window. DayZ still displays in the windows bar, if clicked the background noises play and my cursor disappears but video does not return, if right-clicked and instance selected DayZ says "unable to locate a running instance of steam"

Details

Legacy ID
824552389
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Have Not Tried
Category
Game Freezes
Steps To Reproduce

have not attempted, yet.

Additional Information

Windows 7 ultimate service pack 1, AMD phenom 9600 quad-core, Nvidia geforce 8200

Event Timeline

guest edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Jan 4 2014, 3:30 PM
guest edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
guest set Category to Game Freezes.
guest set Reproducibility to Have Not Tried.
guest set Severity to None.
guest set Resolution to Open.
guest set Legacy ID to 824552389.May 8 2016, 3:59 PM

Same issue on my end, happens everytime I play. The game will minimizing itself but won't maximize. Thought it might be related to having duel monitors, but not sure.