VCV Rack 2.03 Free standalone : Windows has disapeared

[user814]

Hi all I have installed the standalone free version of VCV Rack 2.03 to test it before eventualy purchase the PRO VST edition. I was playing with all nice modules when I double clicked on the upper bar of the window to maximize it. The interface has disapeared like the window went out of the screen or went to another desktop I can see only the application icon in the task bar, showing only the miniature of the application when I overlay it with my mouse, but no way to make it appear full screen. I have uninstall it and reinstall it. But no change. When I open the application, I can hear my patch running, but the application window remain invisible.

Any Idea folks ?

[Jens.Peter.Nielsen]

Same as this ?

Rack 2 runs but no longer shows on display

I love this program but it’s buggy. I plugged in my large external monitor to my laptop while running Rack 2 (obviously a mistake). The program of course crashed. When I rebooted, I could hear the patch playing, and icon showed on Taskbar but there was no user interface on any display. I disconnected external monitor, nothing. I uninstalled Rack 2, reinstalled, and it seemed to take up where the last install left off. Nothing on display but the last played files could be seen when I right clicke…

[inigokennedy]

I had this happen too. Close Rack, edit your settings.json and you will probably find windowPos values are way off. Reset to 0 values for example and re-open Rack.

[Richie (Richie Hindle)]

And also windowSize. Just removing all the window... entries is the easiest fix.

[carbon14 (David O'Rourke)]

Usually pressing Window+D a couple if times will bring the window back into the visible part if your monitor. If it works, its easier than having to edit the settings file.

[zwayne]

Bug has already been reported and acknowledged. Usually easiest for me just to edit the json file directly (with VCV closed) but depending on what I’m doing, this bash script is convenient (of course it uses my paths for files…)

 pushd D:\\data\\Rack2
 C:\\msys64\\mingw64\\bin\\jq.exe '.windowPos="0.0,9.0"' settings.json > tmp.json 
 mv -f tmp.json settings.json
 popd

[cosmoproductions (Gabe)]

Shift + right click the task bar icon, choose Maximize in the pop up menu.

[user814]

Thanks for all your feedback. Gonna try to edit the JSON.

[user814]

Thank you . It seams to be the simpliest solution

[zwayne]

Cool. I never knew you could do this from the task bar!

Edit: VCV just got into that wonky state again and I tried this trick. Unfortunately, shift-right maximized but I was still stuck in that I couldn’t resize VCV - the options at top right were Minimize, Restore Down, and Close. Both Minimize and Restore Down just send VCV back to the task bar. So still needed a separate json edit.