Ahnenerbe WideGui 1920 x 1080 Final Alt-tab Issues.

[FreierVogel]

Hello all!

As the title suggests, I'm having a problem with SH3 not letting me alt-tab to a different window while using this mod.
Since I currently only have one monitor, this is a rather annoying issue.

Is there any fixes or solutions to this? I couldn't find any notes of this in the mods thread.
Hopefully its something simple, but not being the most fluent with coding or computers, I'm rather lost. Id hate to have to not use this mod.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

[XenonSurf]

All SH series (SH3,4,5) don't like ALT-TAB. You will get keyboard commands not working anymore, grafic glitches and strange crew behavior. If you are underwater your sub may get damaged. Etc.
The remedy is: if you really want to go to desktop, save game before ALT-Tabbing. Reloading game will get things to normal again.

[ThePrody]

This is strange, i use Ahenenrbe or ARB Widegui ( it is built on top Ahnenerbe mod) and i can ALT-TAB without any issues . I pause the game before doing it , Windows 7 os . The only issue i have noticed - if i ALT TAB a lot, like ten times or so, i might get a SH3.exe not responding error at the end, when exiting the game, otherwise nothing unusual.

[XenonSurf]

SH3 is less prone to errors when ALT-Tabbing compared to SH5,4, but it depends which mods you have loaded, some will make problems. I always pause game before. With SH5 I need to go to main menu to avoid problems (thus saving the game before.)

I have to ask, do you have another window open where alt+tab to from the game?

[FreierVogel]

It seems to show that its switching the tabs, but the game stays in front of everything else, not letting me access anything. Is this some kind of glitch?

[XenonSurf]

Instead of using ALT-TAB, use WIN_Key+D. This will go directly to desktop and not to the next open app. But I doubt it will resolve jerkiness in SH3...

[FreierVogel]

Originally Posted by XenonSurf

Instead of using ALT-TAB, use WIN_Key+D. This will go directly to desktop and not to the next open app. But I doubt it will resolve jerkiness in SH3...

This doesn't seem to work either.
The game is still staying on-top of everything. Even if I use the task-bar to select, for example, chrome.
It registers I've selected it, but its like it pulls up behind the game, and clicking only goes back to the game.

[XenonSurf]

Originally Posted by FreierVogel

This doesn't seem to work either.
The game is still staying on-top of everything. Even if I use the task-bar to select, for example, chrome.
It registers I've selected it, but its like it pulls up behind the game, and clicking only goes back to the game.

Maybe it's because your grafic options are set to Windowed Mode filling all your screen? I don't remember if SH3 has such a setting, but try to change the setting to Fullscreen in that case. (In order to start SH3 at all on my Win7x64 system I must lower the resolution on desktop first, else I get a 3D error, and because of that I'm not ALT-Tabbing out very often, so I don't know all the finesses).


Then, the general troubleshooting notes for SH3 say that you also should put your grafic scaling option to the 2nd one in the Nvidia Panel, 'Vollbild' in German (don't know in English, sorry.). There must be a reason for that, so do it and try again.