Solved [HELP] Game Window Minimizes on Launch

[sanddall-asy]

Hi! This is my first post on this forum, so if this is the wrong location for this kind of post please let me know!

The past week or so when I have been attempting to play Stardew, about half the time when I run the game the game window will open but automatically minimize, and when I click on the taskbar tab it will go to fullscreen only to return to being minimized again afterwards immediately. Sometimes I am able to run the game and play it after I restart my laptop, but today I restarted my laptop around four times and even turned it off and on, but the game still minimizes automatically. Is there any way to fix this? I own the game on Steam and use a Windows operating system. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the game's shortcut and starting the game directly from the Steam library page to no luck. I've had this game for a few years and have not had this issue before, and I can't find anything like this online, but it may have just been how I phrased searches.

 

[SirTiegertosch]

Here is a simpel fix for this problem.

Press Windows Button + R > type: %appdata% > Then you should be in "Roaming" > Search in Roaming for "StardewValley" > In the Folder "StardewValley" open "startup_prefernces" with a text editor like Notepad++

When you opend startup_prefernces in your text editor. Search for the following:

• <fullscreenResolutionX>NUMBER</fullscreenResolutionX>
• <fullscreenResolutionY>NUMBER</fullscreenResolutionY>
• <preferredResolutionX>NUMBER</preferredResolutionX>
• <preferredResolutionX>NUMBER</preferredResolutionX>

There are two numbers for me it was 1440 x 900. Change this two numbers too X=1920 and Y=1080. This will starte the Game in the correct resolution and it should stay in full screen.

Hope this helps and sorry for my bad english greetings from germany

 

[sanddall-asy]

I think this worked! Thank you so much.