Darktide sometimes doesn't get window focus

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Description:
When I start darktide sometimes the game window will not appear. I play in fullscreen mode. Sometimes it will do a strange thing where it will center the mouse on the screen and if I click then the window will show up on the windows bar and I will then be able to click it to enter the game, other times that will not happen though. Often I’ll have to try boot the game a couple times, closing it through task manager between tries. It hasn’t always done this, I think I must have changed a setting at some point which caused the issue.

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[Steam/Microsoft Store]

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Reproduction Rate:
Often (<75%)

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Upload Console Log & darktide_launcher.log:
console-2023-06-18-20.11.22-0be3a26b-1d47-4bcd-ae10-9bf206f1b8d1.log (128.0 KB)

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Have you switched to a 4k monitor recently?

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No recent monitor switch. I run 1440p on a 1080p monitor though and switched it up to 1440p at some point.

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It depends on your screen set-up what the correct value will be, but to start with you could try changing fullscreen_output in your user_settings.config to 0.

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I have just the single monitor. It appears to already be set to 0. It does appear twice though. I’ll upload my user_settings if that might help.
user_settings.config (104.5 KB)

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One of our developers say you may need to experiment with window modes.

You may also wish to try disabling your mods, to see if that could be related.