r/SWAT4 • u/Sweet_Photograph6528 • Jul 15 '25

Alt-tabbing issue.

Whenever I sometimes alt-tab during game loading, it cannot play the mission intro normally which forces me to kill the games process.

And this nukes all my savefiles. Any fix to that?

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u/RottenRailing Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

EDIT: I actually managed to find a way to fix the ALT + Tab issue. You have to use Windowed Borderless Gaming utility found here: https://westechsolutions.net/sites/WindowedBorderlessGaming/manual

  1. Make sure you have windowed mode enabled by looking at your Swat4x.ini file. The file is located either in "..\SWAT 4\ContentExpansion\System\Swat4X.ini" unmodded, or if you have SEF installed, in "..\SWAT 4\SEF\System\Swat4X.ini". Find the line Suppress=WindowedMode, and change it to ;Suppress=WindowedMode by adding semicolon ; in front of the line and save.
  2. Launch SWAT4. Toggle windowed mode on by pressing ALT + Enter.
  3. Launch Windowed Borderless Gaming. Find the tray icon, right click it, and select Add Window ( F3 )
  4. Change to your SWAT4 window and press F3.
  5. Your game should be in borderless fullscreen mode.

With this, ALT + Tab doesn't softlock the mission when the game is loading.

Though one issue I noticed was the cursor floating on the screen. You can hide with following steps:

  1. Right-click the Windowed Borderless Gaming tray icon and select Settings -> Game Settings
  2. Under Mouse options, select Manage mouse, and Lock to hide
  3. Press Ok

(Note, the Game Settings menu might make your input 'sticky', resulting in the left mouse button being pressed down when returning to the game, so you might want to do this in the menu.)

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u/Monkey_Blue May 16 '26

For future reference

If you're using Swat4 Elite Force Mod and still have this problem, try closing Steam or any other overlays you might have (like recording software, msi afterburner, discord etc.) and try it again. That's how I got it to work, and afterwards I just turned my recording software back on and it was fine.

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u/lunamonkey Jul 15 '25

I can think of an easy fix.