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At the risk of this becoming XY, I'll state my purpose. A few games (such as Kingdom Rush) have this annoying habit of automatically pausing when you click in another window (so that the game window loses focus).
I want focus for multiple windows, so I can work with a browser whilst the game still runs in the other window (both are tiled on the same screen).
Is there a program to help here, or maybe there's another workaround?
Dan W
Posted 2015-07-28T20:00:32.640
Reputation: 420
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This probably can not be set from Windows. The game will realize that it has lost focus and it will get paused.
You should try to modify the game instead:
In some games there are settings for this in the options. ex: "Window auto-pause".
You should try to put the game in windowed mode and check if it still pauses.
Steam games usually have an .ini that you can modify for some advanced settings like this one:
Steamapps/common/xcom-enemy-unknown/engine/config/baseengine.ini
bPauseOnLossOfFocus=TRUE
set to false and it will no longer pause.
You should be looking for settings.ini or options.ini or anything similar.
You can even make a search inside the game directory for *.ini
Divin3
Posted 2015-07-28T20:00:32.640
Reputation: 1 568
Thanks for your input. No such file or setting for Kingdom Rush unfortunately. When in Windowed mode I did however try clicking on the main taskbar icon, and it disappeared though still ran (unfortunately, I don't want it to disappear). – Dan W – 2015-07-29T00:16:53.480
I did not find any better solutions for this game. – Divin3 – 2015-07-29T02:10:49.523
2I don't think that's possible. – MC10 – 2015-07-28T20:09:46.933
@MC10: Not necessarily as I don't require input for the game. I just want it to keep running. – Dan W – 2015-07-28T20:45:41.213
1Even you are not giving input, Windows itself can only focus on one window. – MC10 – 2015-07-28T22:00:26.403
See Vercas's answer in the proposed duplicate. – fixer1234 – 2015-07-29T03:16:10.940