Many modern gamers rate their gaming experience based on total immersion, and a second monitor is a powerful tool. However, many find that their game window minimizes when they try to interact with the second screen, ruining the immersion experience.

How To Stop The Minimizing Problem

If you run the game on your first monitor and interact with an element of the second to change some music, for example, it will pull the game out of full-screen mode.

While it may visually appear as two separate windows, being two individual monitors, the program won’t make that distinction without your assistance.

1. Use the Game Window Settings

The game window settings are a good place to start troubleshooting if your game continues to minimize while using a secondary monitor. Here’s how to do it:

Open the game window’s Settings.
Locate the Functions tab.
Select Prevent Window Deactivation from the “Window Management” portion of the menu.
Choose a key combination.
Save the changes.
Use the key combination to transfer freely between monitors.

2. Use Borderless Windows

One way to solve this problem is by altering the type of window the game is displayed in. A borderless window is somewhat of a halfway point between fullscreen and minimized.

By changing to the borderless window setting, gamers can keep the window up while interacting with the second screen.

In the Settings, turn on the game’s Borderless Window function.
Check the aspect ratio. If it was changed when you enabled the borderless window, change it back to what it was before. If the aspect ratio is off, the game will appear with incorrect proportions on the monitor.
Once you’ve changed the borderless window and aspect ratio settings, perform a couple of clicks on the second monitor. The game window won’t be minimized when using the second monitor.
Now that you can use the mouse on the second monitor, bring the mouse back to the first monitor or use Alt+Tab to switch back and forth between your primary and secondary monitors.