Can't restore game window once minimized.

[skorj]

If I minimize the game window for any reason, it's impossible to restore it (and I've tried all of the dozen or so ways to do that in Windows), leaving me no option but to close the program and lose everything since my last save.

This issue is 100% reproducible - every time the window is minimized, it won't restore.  I'm running Windows 10 on a very ordinary gaming box, single monitor, no oddball components.  I have ~40 other games installed on this box, none of which show any such problems.

When I hover over the taskbar icon to bring up the thumbnail, then hover over the thumbnail to bring up the preview, it's obviously in a bad state:

Please notice that the thumbnail actually shows the game loading dialog box, not the game screen.  Seems like that might be relevant here.

When the game is running normally, never been minimized, when I do the same steps I see this:

Again, please notice the thumbnail: it's the loading dialog, not the game. 

I've seen this issue since 1.18, though I didn't play between 1.18 and 1.25 mostly because this is rather frustrating.  Game was started in 1900, though that seems irrelevant here, as with nation.

[williammiller]

Thanks for the report - this appears to be an issue with part of the game engine drawing routines, we will see what we can do to resolve it. Thanks.