My Sims 4 starting up in a tiny window
Greetings. I appreciate any and all help I can get on this matter. Whenever I start up my Sims 4 game on my Acer laptop this happens. It immediately minimizes and stays on this screen. I have tri...
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Electricnite I don't know what EarTrumpet is, but it's not a necessary app unless it's for accessibility. Even then, it would be best ot disable it temporarily to see whether it helps. Everything doesn't need to be running either, and it's definitely not necessary since it's simply a search tool. RtkAudioService is a component of the sound driver, so leave that alone.
Other than the above, please create a new admin Windows account and try playing there. Make it local, as in, don't link it to your Microsoft account or any email address. (You'll be asked to answer some security questions instead.) Don't import any settings from your main account either. You'll be able to launch the game without reinstalling anything, but your saves and other user data won't be available.
The point here is to see whether the problem is some setting in your main account. If the new account works, we can try to find the relevant setting. If it doesn't work, the problem is more global, and we can also discount any problems that wouldn't carry over from your old account.
So I tried rebooting it again, this time without EarTrumpet and Everything.exe but that didn't work. I made a new Windows profile, like you said to do, and made sure everything that was disabled before was disabled again. That also didn't work. I ended up searching through the forums again to see if there was anything close to this issue and I found one post that said switching the GPU preference from Nvidia to Intel in graphics settings worked for them. I tried it and that completely solved the issue. Now I'm just going through the Nvidia app to see what settings is causing this issue in the first place.
