Since the new DLC, the game window does not work correctly. Here are some of the issues that i’m experiencing that i did not experience before.
- I used to be able to press the windows key and navigate my mouse outside of AOE4 to another taskbar item or desktop icon and click it and open it. Now, however, this only works in exclusive fullscreen mode. Borderless full screen, full desktop, and windowed mode no longer do this, as my mouse is still stuck inside AOE4’s window.
- I used to be able to alt tab to other open windows without AOE4 minimizing. I have multiple monitors and like to multitask while playing custom games. I can no longer alt tab to another window or press the windows key to release my mouse from aoe4 and navigate to another window unless i want AOE4 to minimize. The only way i can get this to work is if i’m in exclusive full screen and use the windows key, and go down to my taskbar and click the icon that i want to navigate to. This allows me to go to my other screen without AOE4 minimizing.
- Using the windowed mode no longer allows me to actually drag the window around at all. If i’m in windowed mode and press alt tab to another window, or use the windows key to release my mouse, when i hover back over the game, i’m not able to click the actual windows bar at the top, or any of the minimize, maximize, or exit buttons. The only way around this is to alt tab to a different open window, click on the top bar of that window (like a browser), and then i can hover over the AOE4 windows bar and click the buttons or move it, but only once because once you release the mouse, you are sucked back into the aoe4 cursor and you have to start all over again.
- Dragging the windowed mode from my “main screen” (from windows display setting) to another screen, maximizing it (which as i described in number 3 requires me to have another open window and is a giant hassle), and then going to exclusive or borderless full screen works at first, however, as soon as i alt tab or hit my windows key to another open application, AOE4 minimizes and then when i go back to aoe4 it returns to my main screen, only its back in windows mode, and now i can’t get it out of windowed mode. When i try to return it to borderless or exclusive full screen, on either monitors, it maximizes but maintains windows mode, and i have to restart the application to get it back to full-screen.
- There is no way to resize the windows mode screen at all, even doing the trick from #3 above, i can never get the arrow icons to be able to resize it… i’m only capable of dragging the window or clicking the minimize, maximize, and exit buttons.
I have an acer nitro 5 laptop with intel i7 and an rtx 3070 with all updated drivers. I never had any of these problems before the DLC released. I purchased the game through the x-box-live platform (not steam). I have spoken with many other players who have the same issues now since the DLC dropped. I hope you can get the winow to work how it used to. Thanks!