Why would UI elelments only update when the game is *not* in focus?

[3dRaven]

You can turn on
“Use less CPU when in Background” in the editor preferences. But there is no specific logic to freeze the ui on loss of focus.

You could implement your own logic to control this
example:

Is there a Blueprint node that checks if game window is unfocused?

You can inherit a Blueprint Character from your Character C++ class: .h file: UCLASS() class EXAMPLE_API AMyCharacter : public ACharacter { GENERATED_BODY() protected: virtual void BeginPlay() override; public: UFUNCTION(BlueprintImplementableEvent) void OnWindowsLostFocus(); UFUNCTION(BlueprintImplementableEvent) void OnWindowsGainFocus(); private: void OnWindowFocusChanged(bool bIsFocused); }; .cpp file: void AMyCharacter::BeginPlay() { Super::BeginPlay(); FSlateApplicatio…

And then just set the ui tick to a very large value on loss of focus and that will nearly pause it.