Okay, new to the forums but looked around and didn't see anything like what I'm experiencing. So here it goes:
I have a brand new HP OMEN Laptop (15-dc1054nr) running Win 10 64, all drivers are up to date, etc...
About a week ago, I installed Bridge Commander and it worked just fine after install. I installed the Kobayashi Maru (2.0) Mod with all patches and fixes. Everything continued to work without issue. KM2.0 has settings to use the native resolution for your machine so I set it to 1920 x 1080 and still everything worked fine and looked amazing. I added a couple other mods (ships/sfx) and didn't have an issue either.
Now last night, after adjusting properties for a couple of ships using the Model Property Editor (I'M NOT NEW TO MODDING BC BTW), I attempted to run BC to test the edits. BC launched but would automatically minimize to the taskbar but would continue to run.
At first I thought that I screwed up somewhere during the edits I did so I replaced the edited files with the original backups (before the edits) and still BC would minimize to the taskbar.
Since I created a backup of the initial install as well as the install of KM2.0, I decided to delete BC and replace with the installed KM2.0 backup (WHICH WORKED BEFORE), but it also would just minimize to the taskbar.
I even went as far as to uninstall BC completely, used CCleaner to clean up any registry issues after the uninstall, then reinstalled completely.
Even the new, clean install minimizes to the taskbar.
I'm like beyond confused with this issue. Nothing, system related, changed between the last time it ran fine and when it started doing this minimizing to the taskbar thing.
I've played BC before, even had it heavily modded (by me) on a previous computer but I've never had something like this happen. Usually when a mod is installed incorrectly, BC launches to a black-screen, it doesn't minimize.
Oh, I've also tried starting BC in test-mode and since it minimizes before anything pops on screen, I can't do a console dump to see if there are any internal errors.
If anyone has any suggestions or can possibly shed some light on this issue it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks....