Game(s) Keep Exiting out of Fullscreen
Ever since I installed the new Sims 4 update I haven't been able to actually play. I can load the game up and play but every four or five seconds, it kicks me out of the fullscreen app and back to th...
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@neoromanempire Try disabling notifications, under Windows Settings > System > Notifications & actions. The first option is a master switch. I'm not saying you have to leave it off indefinitely, only that this is a useful test.
If that doesn't help, disable any apps you use that come with overlays: Discord, Steam, etc. Disable the EA App in-game overlay too, under Settings > Application.
If that doesn't help either, please put Sims 4 in windowed mode and let me know whether it still minimizes. Since the game won't stay open, you'll need to edit Options.ini, in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4. Search for fullscreen and set it to 0 (zero).
Whether or not windowed mode helps, please also run a dxdiag and attach it to your reply.
https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
Yeah nothing worked except putting it in windowed mode which I did by going into properties and adding -w at the end of the target. Im telling you its the LG monitor's "HDR" pop up that is causing it, it nearly exclusively happens immediately when the HDR pop up shows up. This is so annoying. Would really like to be able to use it in fullscreen again.
Heres the dxdiag while running in windowed mode.
@neoromanempire Editing Options.ini to force windowed mode should have accomplished the same thing; I'm not sure why that setting wouldn't have held. The -w command line argument overrides the in-game setting, but there's nowhere else the in-game setting would be saved.
At any rate, all of the crashes in your dxdiag are of one component or another of LG's On Screen Control software. There's a newer version (9.35) than your currently installed one (9.28) available, and you can get it here:
https://www.lg.com/us/support/product/lg-27GN950-B.AUS?tab=1
But please uninstall it first and test Sims 4 without it present, and only then install the newest version, that is if you want to use it.
Let me know whether the pop-ups go away with the software removed, and if so, whether they return with the newest version installed.
Oh I didn’t even attempt to edit options.ini. I just forced it into windowed mode using the target -w method because that’s an easy way I’ve done before that I already knew how. Okay yeah I’ll download that newer version later.
