KSP in the background

[CaptainTurbomuffin]

KSP in the background is messy. If you put it into the background, either by opening the task manager, using Alt+Tab, or its button in non-fullscreen, the KSP icon won't be showed on the desktop. Not only you can't bring it up (because it won't be showed on the desktop. It's only possible to switch to it with Alt+tab), you'll have no idea that KSP is running in the background. Several times, I could only recognize it when my other games started to lag like hell when launched (fu.king up my early game in RTS games).

Edited October 28, 2015 by CaptainTurbomuffin

[Snark]

Not sure what you mean by "there's no icon"-- I can see just fine when it's running in the background, though that may be OS-dependent. (I'm on Windows 7, and it has an active taskbar button when it's running).

There's a setting on the General tab of the Settings page from the main menu, "Simulate in Background", for controlling whether KSP keeps running when it's in the background.

[RA3236]

KSP in the background is messy. If you put it into the background, either by opening the task manager, using Alt+Tab, or its button in non-fullscreen, the KSP icon won't be showed on the desktop. Not only you can't bring it up (because it won't be showed on the desktop...

You probably have -popupwindow enabled. Double check you don't have this in your shortcut.

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If you put KSP into the background, unlike other games, it won't be paused. Once I put it into the background while loading, to do somethig else meanwhile. Due to the lack of it being displayed on the desktop, I frogot about it. Later, I got jumpscared when my plane rolled down the runway after finishing loading and crashed into the sea with a huge noise...

You can disable this in Settings of KSP