Guild Wars 2

I have a very strange and unique issue that I am running into. This isn’t something that began with a recent patch, it’s actually something that’s been happening (randomly) since I’ve been playing.

I run the game in full screen mode (not windowed) on one of my monitors. I frequently have an issue occur where the game allows me to click on my second monitor which causes the game to minimize. I’ve played other games with my current setup and haven’t experienced this issue with any of them.

During gameplay it tends to happen at the most inopportune times. However, I have determined how to recreate the issue. If I bring my mouse to the side of the screen closest to my second monitor and right click while slightly moving the mouse towards the other monitor my mouse cursor will appear on the second monitor which causes the game to minimize.

You might say if I know how to recreate it, then I can avoid it right? Well, sometimes during the heat of battle when I go to adjust my camera as I need, that is when it occurs.

It’s an annoyance that I’ve dealt with for this long, but figured I’d post something to see if there is something that can be done to resolve it. I understand that this is an odd issue that may not have a fix, though it certainly would be appreciated.

In your graphics options, choose “Windowed Full Screen” for your resolution. This way, when you click on a window on your other screen, GW2 won’t minimize on your main screen. Instead, the Windows task bar will show, but the GW2 window will stay maximized.

The issue is more of the fact that this can occur while playing the game in full screen mode. Also, when playing in windowed full screen mode you do sacrifice quite a bit of performance, as the frame rate drops quite a bit.

I’m more interested in finding out how this is even a possibility (as well as a fix obviously). If I am using one of my monitors in full screen mode, I should not be able to click on my other monitor at all.