Re: I am having a white screen while playing my sims 4 game

So far the following are things that have worked for different people, sometimes just one, sometimes all:

• repairing the game
• starting a new save
• running the game (and EA App/Origin/Steam) as admin

So I'd say try each of those in turn, and then together, to see if it helps.

I still keep getting the odd report over on my various social platforms about this. I direct people here to click me too or add their info in a reply, but not all have that I can see. It doesn't seem to be such a widespread problem that it's affecting lots and lots of people, but enough that the reports keep trickling in.

Ok so I tried asking , well relying to someone similar, and someone has a great solution for now! Ok so it's this, disable the home key press Fn and then the windows key. It disables it and it won't just go crazy all of a sudden. Then just exit in and out the game using alt tab. Thank God I found this out when I did bc it was literally not making me want to play the sims 😅

Romans 5:15-16

Thank you to ItsOnlyThee for helping us out. They really helped save a whole comunity of problems😅👌 

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@robofoxartist wrote:

Ok so I tried asking , well relying to someone similar, and someone has a great solution for now! Ok so it's this, disable the home key press Fn and then the windows key. It disables it and it won't just go crazy all of a sudden. Then just exit in and out the game using alt tab. Thank God I found this out when I did bc it was literally not making me want to play the sims 😅

Romans 5:15-16

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I suspect all you've done is prevented you from accidentally tabbing out (which is what pressing the windows key does), not actually solved the underlying problem. Great if you never need to tab out of the game and in again by other means, if it just prevents you from doing that accidentally, but others who want or need to tab in and out of the game are still going to have this problem.

'Tabbing out' is a shorthand way of saying going from the game window to the desktop or to another window you have open in the background, and 'tabbing in' is when you go back to the game window again. It's called tabbing in/out because the common way of doing it is to press alt+tab to 'tab through' the different windows you have open and choose the one you want to bring to the front. Try doing it with the game open and see if you get the white screen again.

@pictureamoebae  Older games often don't respond well to an alt-tab when the game is running in fullscreen mode.  If you (or anyone else reading) would like to keep the fullscreen look with the alt-tab functionality, it would be best to play in "windowed fullscreen" (Borderless in any other game) rather than standard fullscreen mode.

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@puzzlezaddict wrote:

@pictureamoebae  Older games often don't respond well to an alt-tab when the game is running in fullscreen mode.  If you (or anyone else reading) would like to keep the fullscreen look with the alt-tab functionality, it would be best to play in "windowed fullscreen" (Borderless in any other game) rather than standard fullscreen mode.

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Yes, we’ve already discussed this. People are having the same issue playing in windowed and windowed fullscreen mode. It’s how I initially found out about it, because people were coming to me for help as it was happening while they were hotsampling with srwe, which needs you to be in windowed mode. They thought it was a hotsampling problem but it turns out it isn’t, it’s an issue with tabbing out and in again (which you need to do a lot when hotsampling).