Quick Accent's "Do not activate when Game Mode is on" is not working

[SkandarS0]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.79.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update, WinGet

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Quick Accent

Steps to reproduce

• Game mode is on.
• Playing Valorant
• Pressing Z and space to jump forward
  

✔️ Expected Behavior

Pressing a key, then space, should not activate the Quick Accent toolbar when gaming.

❌ Actual Behavior

Pressing a key, then space, activates the Quick Accent toolbar.

Other Software

No response

[htcfreek]

Might be a problem detecting the game. /bugreport

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

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[SkandarS0]

Might be a problem detecting the game.

Oh, you're right. The game was in windowed fullscreen setting, when I changed it to fullscreen it's detecting it.
Probably game mode detects the game only when it's fullscreen, I didn't know that.

[htcfreek]

@SkandarS0
There is a setting called "Excluded Apps" you can try if you are playing the game in maximized window mode. You can find this setting on the Quick Accent settings page.

[dearpowa]

Can assure that this issue is still present when games are running in "windowed full screen" mode, since not every game has a full screen exclusive mode (e.s. Starfield, Hellblade 2 and many others) it's a real pain to manually insert every process name (especially you have a multi PC setup), my suggestion is, if it's hard to detect open games that aren't full screen exclusive, to at least make some kind of process selector like discord for unregistered games

So this whole process would be less tedious