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Anonymous
12 years ago

Borderless = BF4 Doesn't Show In Applications Tab of Task Manager, Cannot Alt+Tab to BF4

Hi,

When I am using the Borderless display setting, bf4.exe shows up as a process, but the game window isn't acknowledged in the Applications tab of Task Manager. I'm not able to Alt+Tab to the game, but I can click it on the task bar to switch back to the window.

This issue appeared immediately after the "Borderless opening window in wrong resolution" bug was fixed.

Is there anything I can do to resolve this issue?  Using Windowed or Full Screen is not an option for me.

-McG

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Does anyone know of anything (registry changes, config file edit, etc.) I can do to resolve this on my end?

    Is anyone else able to run Borderless WITHOUT experiencing this issue?

  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
    Hero+
    12 years ago

    Removing your settings folder from:

    C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Battlefield 4 and setting up your settings again might be worth trying.

    I have never heard of the game dissapearing from the taskmanager before.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Thanks Carbonic, I'll give that a shot.

    If you switch yours to Borderless, do you see the same behavior?  If so, this might just be an issue that needs to be patched.  If not, then I'll definitely need to dig (if deleting the settings folder doesn't work).

    -McG

  • Takail's avatar
    Takail
    10 years ago

    If you are running the game on windows 10 then switching to a second virtual desktop the the icon of the left of the taskbar will open up the game again and then use Windowskey+Tab to tab out again. However i don't know how to fix it on any other operating system.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I have this problem on Windows 10 build 14352

    I found a workaround... run the game in windowed mode then use Simple Runtime Window Editor to remove the borders.

  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
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    9 years ago

    @Tussticles I don't know why you are necroing a thread that is over a year old. The workaround for the Windows Anniversary update making BF4 not appear is usually (as mentioned in the new threads on here) to set the virtual desktop settings to show all desktops.

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