Run In Background player setting not working in standalone

I've ran in to an issue with the Run In Background player setting.

In the editor, if I tab out of the editor while the game is running everything keeps working fine.

If I'm running a Windows standalone in windowed mode and tab out, everything keeps working fine.

However, if I'm running the standalone in fullscreen mode and alt+tab out, or in windowed mode and click the top bar on the window to move it around, the game freezes. Not resuming till I either tab back in to the fullscreen game, or release the window in windowed mode.

Is this a known issue? Are there any ways I can fix it? It is very vital that my game not freeze like that.

 

Does anyone have any experience with this? All function stops when the game pauses, which for multiplayer causes massive issues. Is there a solution to this? Or is this just a Unity bug?

 

Some of our players are reporting stuff like this as well. This appears to only be happening on windows standalone and seems to be a pretty critical issue. Hope there is a hot fix for this.

 

We're unfortunately experiencing this as well. There's a reported issue in Unity's issue tracker - go vote!

 

I'm having this problem as well... Link to the issue tracker is here:
http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/run-in-background-does-not-work-for-fullscreen

 

I'm also having this problem. It was working fine til I updated Unity.

 

set this
void Awake(){
Application.runInBackground = true;
}

 

I did. This is a known Unity bug.

 

I voted on it. This bug is causing so many problems in my game that it is driving me crazy. I cannot believe this problem hasn't been hotfixed, I can only imagine what is happening to other online standalones.

 

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Lucky I found that out now, we reached a point where we need pro, and we were planning on ordering next month
This is a complete game breaker for our multiplayer :\

I dont know what to do now, I am thinking about porting the project to a different engine, as sad as it is to leave unity

 

To tell you the truth,I am really surprised how long they fix this bug.
P.S. Temporary workaround - you can use 4.2.2

 

I was thinking about that, but to port my entire game to 4.2.2?
Thats going to be a nightmare...

Now I can continue my project, and hope it will be fixed soon (4.6?)
I dont know, still thinking about tat

But if we could have one of unity guys saying they are fixing the issue sometime soon, that would be great

Edit: It also seems to be the second most voted unfixed bug, after a problem with opening VS as external file editor

 

6 months later, a bug that takes a few minutes to fix yet breaks a whole market of games still isn't fixed. I'm done with Unity, they don't give a F*** about Windows users. This is absolutely pathetic.

 

THANK YOU for taking notice!
Its really good to know that someone is checking on this bug.

Please keep us updated!

 

That's great new! Thanks you!

 

Hi All, is this get official fixed? I seem to still have this issue in 4.6.1f Pro

 

actually it did at some point, but I dont know how it is now :\
did you try it with 5?

 

Unfortunately it doesn't work with 4.6.1f. I remember it not being a problem for a while with previous versions.
I can't migrate to v5 currently as we're about to launch our game on Steam :/

 

ohhh man :\
is it a multiplayer game?

 

Na it's not, but it's still pretty bad if player want to alt-tab out or look at something

 

yea but at least its not a "game-breaker"
it completely breaks any non-authoritative online game

 

That's a shocker, how can they have not fixed this yet?

 

according to the bug report, it was fixed at Fixed in Unity 4.5.3
You should report it regressed

 

They must have broken it again in 4.6.1f, dang I might have to see if they fixed it in a later build. If I knew I would have stuck with the old build...

 

I read http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/cant-alt-tab-back-to-dx11-standalone?page=2#comments here that it says DX9 still works ok. I imght try and do a build with that setting

 

Hi,
maybe I am wrong but the bug (Run In Background player setting not working in standalone) is still there in version 5.2.0f3 right?

When does anybody something against it since so much costumers are complaining?

 

I just discovered this bug. It's killing my multiplayer game currently. I'm running Unity 5.2.3p2
For me it has nothing to do with fullscreen. Whenever the app loses focus, some (not all) functions cease firing. I need continuous functionality for important aspects of my multiplayer to work. It's so bizarre. When the game loses focus, most of its code still seems to run, save for a few key functions within an Update() loop. ARGH!

 

Does this help any....

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/9899/how-do-you-keep-your-game-running-even-when-you-sw.html

Lar

 

I feel like an idiot. This was the solution to the problem I was having.
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1111376/multiplayer-raycasthit-scene-object-returns-null-r.html