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Re: Rolling in window mode activates the window focus if you press alt and space

Hawxthy, this isn't a BF2 issue, Alt+Space is a WINDOWS hotkey to open the dialog box for the currently active window. If you are playing any game in windowed mode you are going to run into this issue if you use any combination of Alt or Space as a hotkey. There is nothing the developers are going to do to the game that nullifies a system hotkey and fix this for you. This issue is similar to pressing SHIFT too many times and activating windows "Sticky Keys".

You essentially have four options here:

  • Don't play in windowed mode
  • Rebind your Jump/Roll keys away from Alt or Space. I'd keep Space but rebind Alt somewhere else
  • Use an AHK script to rebind your Left Alt to something else at the system level, outside the game. This way you can still use Alt and Space at the same time, but Alt will in reality be triggering another key
  • Use a macro keyboard (like G15, etc) to rebind Alt to some other key (like solution 3 above, but without scripting)

There is nothing Dice/EA is going to do to fix this for you. It's not an game issue, this is Windows taking control of hotkeys from the game.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    This is wrong Kornstalx, because I played Battlefront (2015) and I had not this problem. You can ask in the program for key inputs and disable certain commands like they did in Battlefront (2015). Also this is the first game I have this issue with. Moreover, it's not similar to pressing SHIFT too many times. This was disabled in the game and I play every game in window mode and I checked other games Skyrim, Tom Raider and Battlefront (2015). None of these games have this issue. Consequently it's possible to disable it in game.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    By the way, in the other threads I created here which a mod deleted, were people who had answered and had the same problem.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yeah, thanks. Finally good news 🙂

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It <b>wasn't</b> fixed with today's patch. Still hot topic.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Still not fixed. Even if you roll the menu opens and press "s" back wards then the entire game closes!!!!! Happened to me maybe 30 times and I am report this bug since the beta. Also it was removed from known issues in the forum! Why?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    bump please fix. I don't know why you removed it from "known issues" in the forum. It's still up to date. @EA @FireWall can you please make it now to a hot fix, because I am waiting for a fix since 5-6 months?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Still not fixed.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Unfortunately still not fixed.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    I checked today's update. Still not fixed.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    May the 4th be with you. I hope it will be fixed in season 2.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Hey DICE, great update today. But the bug is still not fixed. It's even worse.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Still not fixed

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It's even worse. DICE window mode players matter as well. (6th June 2018)

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Reminder for the devs, it's still a thing and unfixed.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Still not fixed.

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