When I needed to get on the internet while playing my game on Windows PC, I was able to "alt"+"tab" to get there. Now, when doing so, it continues to stay on my game. Even when I hit the keys for task manager or windows. Did the shortcut keys change?
i have the same issue, though it was my windows key that i would use...eaiest way to do temporaraly fix that is going into your game, go to options, look to your left a little and click on the down arrow and select windowed fullscreen mode. you can alt + tab then click on an icon on your task bar...i miss my windows button where it minimized my game...i miss it so much...😞
I have to revise my answer. Yes it worked after I restarted my computer, because my game for some reason reverted back to DX9. When I changed that to DX11 (again) the problem was back. Before the windows-button or alt+tab did nothing, now I can see the other things that are open on the computer, but I still can't switch to them. So the patch did not fix all that needed fixing.
I was going CRAZY trying to figure out why alt+tab wasn't working suddenly! Thank you so much for solving the mystery lol. Really hope EA addresses this soon because while I want to stay on DX11, this severely limits the game experience for me.
I had issues too even after my update, but I restarted my computer and now it works (I had by that time already repaired the game)
I turned dx11 off and have not had an issue since.
Are you playing on Windows? If so, do you use the optional DX11 feature?
"alt" + "Tab" key combo was broken, but with Tuesdays patch it should have been fixed.
Patchnotes: "Pressing Alt + Tab in Fullscreen Mode on Windows now opens the Task Switcher for computers with DirectX 11."
If you're on a MAC or if you have already patched, that info is unfortunately outdated.
I have exactly the same problem now so that old problem has come back. And it really only appeared after the latest update. Before that there was no problem. So how should this problem be solved? Preferably though, I would hope that this problem would be fixed ASAP. I would like to be able to switch to the desktop side of the game without having to shut down the game. And I'm playing my version of TS4 at my PC and I'm not gonna change it.
And I have almost all the add-ons, by the way. Only a few kits and the buggy love expansion pack are the ones that I do not have, yet. So it's definitely not because of this latest expansion pack. But very likely just that latest update.
With the latest patch all games changed to DX11, but in settings there is a way to revert back to DX9, then the alt+tab will work again. They say they fixed it in a previous patch, but my experiences are like yours, it does not work at all with DX11, which is highly annoying. I want to be able to use DX11, but can't because much of my game is switching between writing and playing.
