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Starcraft 2 No longer going on top of Start Bar

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MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-25 06:18:42
January 25 2011 06:18 GMT
#1
I am playing Starcraft 2 and ever since the most recent patch, if I play starcraft 2 in full screen windowed mode, I can't get the start bar to disappear anymore. This is especially frustrating since I can't scroll downwards anymore while playing in this mode.

Here is a screenshot of the issue:
http://i56.tinypic.com/6nv3ap.jpg

I basically can't play starcraft anymore. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I'd prefer not to remove my start bar or change it to autohide. I want it back like it used to be, when starcraft 2 was my active window, it was above the start bar. Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
January 25 2011 06:23 GMT
#2
Perhaps start bar always on top became somehow checked? Not sure though, that would be what my guess would be.

good luck!
Jaedong :3
Boblhead
Profile Joined August 2010
United States2577 Posts
January 25 2011 06:31 GMT
#3
simply just have the bar on autohide if it messes with you, or try and alt tab.
MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
January 25 2011 06:38 GMT
#4
I've tried alt tabbing and there's no feature that puts start bar always on top.

I'd prefer not to hide the task bar because the autohide feature annoys me when I get messages in skype and it doesn't blink at me b/c it's hidden. I wouldn't want to put autohide on just for starcraft.
AyameStarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom192 Posts
January 25 2011 06:56 GMT
#5
What's wrong with leaving it fullscreen non windowed? Does that remove the issue? I'll do a google trip later and if noone has answered by then I'll post my findings
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MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
January 25 2011 07:07 GMT
#6
On January 25 2011 15:56 AyameStarcraft wrote:
What's wrong with leaving it fullscreen non windowed? Does that remove the issue? I'll do a google trip later and if noone has answered by then I'll post my findings


Full screen non-windowed causes massive lag issues when I alt tab. Since it reloads the graphics and causes black flashes as it transitions in and out of the sc2 window.
MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
January 26 2011 17:18 GMT
#7
anyone have any idea how to fix this yet?
timestep
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada73 Posts
January 26 2011 17:29 GMT
#8
I'm pretty sure thats the ways its supposed to be.

It's in windowed mode so the start bar will show up.
The only way to rectify it would be to go full screen.

Sorry but its that or a clean reinstall or sc2.
"whoop whoop whoop whoop" - Dr. Zoidberg
Stropheum
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1124 Posts
January 26 2011 19:03 GMT
#9
Have you tried changing the sc2 settings to full screened then back to windowed full screen?
Might just be a glitch where the SC2 interface isn't recognizing the bar for whatever reason. Reapplying the settings might fix it.
vicariouscheese
Profile Joined June 2010
United States589 Posts
January 26 2011 19:03 GMT
#10
On January 27 2011 02:29 timestep wrote:
I'm pretty sure thats the ways its supposed to be.

It's in windowed mode so the start bar will show up.
The only way to rectify it would be to go full screen.

Sorry but its that or a clean reinstall or sc2.


if you watch any of the tons of sc2 streams, there are many players who play fullscreen windowed, and this is not an issue.
blue`
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom119 Posts
January 26 2011 19:05 GMT
#11
Try unlocking it and dragging it to the side, then back to the bottom and locking it again. Aside from that I can't seem to recreate the issue
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GoldenH
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1115 Posts
January 26 2011 19:39 GMT
#12
This tends to happen when you have a program blinking or something in the system tray demanding attention. My suggestion is to close everything possible before starting Starcraft 2.
"(Dudes are) not going to say "Buy this game — I cried at the end". (...) I suppose the secret is to find a game that makes you shoot eight million fuckin' dudes and then cry about how awesome it is to shoot eight million fuckin' dudes." - Tim Rogers
Dugrok
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada377 Posts
January 26 2011 19:43 GMT
#13
On January 25 2011 15:38 MurderMan wrote:
I've tried alt tabbing and there's no feature that puts start bar always on top.

I'd prefer not to hide the task bar because the autohide feature annoys me when I get messages in skype and it doesn't blink at me b/c it's hidden. I wouldn't want to put autohide on just for starcraft.


There's no feature for SC, but there is a feature for Windows. Just making sure, because the suggested wasn't entirely clear. That said, mine is enabled and when I run SC, everything works normally. /shrug
MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
January 26 2011 21:08 GMT
#14
Perhaps start bar always on top became somehow checked? Not sure though, that would be what my guess would be.


I did some research and found out that this feature was removed in windows 7.

Have you tried changing the sc2 settings to full screened then back to windowed full screen?


Tried it, doesn't work.

This tends to happen when you have a program blinking or something in the system tray demanding attention. My suggestion is to close everything possible before starting Starcraft 2.


Unfortunately, this does not work either.

Try unlocking it and dragging it to the side, then back to the bottom and locking it again. Aside from that I can't seem to recreate the issue


This did not work either, although it had an interesting effect. When I have the task bar on the left right or top panes, when I try to move my mouse to it, it won't let me move my mouse onto the start bar, which somewhat solves the issue of being unable to scroll, however putting it on those panes (left, right, or top) pushes the SC2 window down, left, or right causing the window to extend beyond the area of my screen. Which puts part of my SC2 window off the screen, causing other issues.

I have no idea how all of this happened... It's so frustrating! I'm not sure how to solve this issue and blizzard won't respond in their forums...
GoldenH
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1115 Posts
January 27 2011 07:17 GMT
#15
last ditch is to force close explorer.exe from task manager while running sc2. Its a more drastic version of autohide. You could also just resize the task bar to its minimum size, but then you can't scroll in that direction.
"(Dudes are) not going to say "Buy this game — I cried at the end". (...) I suppose the secret is to find a game that makes you shoot eight million fuckin' dudes and then cry about how awesome it is to shoot eight million fuckin' dudes." - Tim Rogers
Paradice
Profile Joined October 2010
New Zealand431 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-27 08:16:38
January 27 2011 08:12 GMT
#16
A bit of googling says others have linked the "DPI Settings" Windows setting to this bug appearing in other fullscreen-windowed games, so try tweaking that?

Or else it's not a bug, Windows is trying to tell you something. The notification area is much larger than Windows 7 shows by default - maybe one of those icons actually wants attention (the one with the exclamation point?)

When an app sets Windowed mode, it's telling windows "hey it's ok to interrupt me and share video resources" which is the key difference between that and true fullscreen mode...
MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-27 20:31:19
January 27 2011 19:43 GMT
#17
last ditch is to force close explorer.exe from task manager while running sc2. Its a more drastic version of autohide. You could also just resize the task bar to its minimum size, but then you can't scroll in that direction.


Tried it, doesn't work. It still won't scroll...

A bit of googling says others have linked the "DPI Settings" Windows setting to this bug appearing in other fullscreen-windowed games, so try tweaking that?


How do I change those settings?

Or else it's not a bug, Windows is trying to tell you something. The notification area is much larger than Windows 7 shows by default - maybe one of those icons actually wants attention (the one with the exclamation point?)


I actually did that already, I updated my windows and downloaded all of those updates (from the exclamation point) and it's still not working
MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-31 17:49:40
January 29 2011 18:09 GMT
#18
Any idea what to do?
MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
January 31 2011 17:49 GMT
#19
Bump
MurderMan
Profile Joined August 2010
United States47 Posts
February 01 2011 23:56 GMT
#20
Any more solutions?
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