Fusion minimizes itself when computing. Also has hidden window causing force quit.

Fusion minimizes itself when computing. Also has hidden window causing force quit.

ndvorsky
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Fusion minimizes itself when computing. Also has hidden window causing force quit.

ndvorsky
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Hi, I have this problem where whenever Fusion has to do a large compute (editing something back in the timeline, saving a mesh file, etc.) it will minimize itself behind other open windows. I use Windows 11.  It's kinda annoying having to alt+tab all the time to get back to Fusion to keep working. Additionally, when this happens sometimes there is some kind of hidden popup window which prevents me from continuing in fusion. I don't know what it says because I have never seen it (thus hidden). I can't click or do anything to fusion (like minimize the window) and I get an error chime whenever I try. I cannot make this hidden window appear and alt+tab shows that there is only one fusion window. However, I discovered that sometimes pressing alt+F4, or pressing enter will close this hidden Fusion window and allow me to continue. Sometimes this doesn't even work and I have to use Task Manager to quit fusion. This is annoying because it is not a crash, fusion is not hung, it's just inaccessible pending access and interaction with some dialogue box.

 

This happens to my coworker too but less often. It happens to me almost every day but I can not find any reliable triggers for the more severe versions/levels of this problem. I have tried changing resolution, extra desktops, external display etc. but nothing makes this hidden window appear.

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janis_namnieks
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Same thing here.

And for whatever reason drawings take like 25-30s to open up.

 

This doesn't happen when using MacOS, only on Windows. 

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jyaw7XAY
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Hi there.

I'm having the same issue. Im responding to this so that it gets pinged in the system and hopefully gets Autodesk to give us answers as to why this problem happens. I'm running using a student license.
The problem that I'm facing is always when working with larger drawings (1000+ bodies). In one of those it happens every single time I perform a timeline action, not just when doing large computes. I'm assuming this somehow has to do with the performance of my computer, but I have a gaming laptop that can run intense gaming applications fine, and I don't think I should need access to a supercomputer to run Fusion.
If this is the problem, then in my opinion maybe something can be done in the development process to allow the application to load information into the cloud without piggybacking off of the PC, as from what I know (and I might be wrong) Fusion doesn't directly save your work to your PC anyways without the user expressly asking for a download copy of the whole save.

If anyone has access to information or knows something that would explain this issue in better detail please don't hesitate to say something.

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camCREX4
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Wonder if this is ever going to get fixed. This has been bugging me for nearly a year now and I'm close to my breaking point. Alt-Tabbing is getting real old. Please fix this Autodesk.

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thecraftingblock12
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Same thing here, especially annoying when converting meshes into solid bodies.

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