a few games constantly go back to desktop durring game play

[QueBert]

This is annoying, I thought it was a bug in one game (Gettin Up) but since then I've had 2 other games do it. Right now it's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Randomly it will drop me to my desktop, forcing me to have to alt-tab back into the game. I thought MAYBE it was Litestep causing it, so I went back to using explorer, no dice.
I looked at what I had running in my tray to see if maybe it's a program. Don't see anything, and when it goes back to my desktop, there's nothing popping up on the screen.
All my drivers are up to date. Here is what's in my tray

yahoo
Anti-Vir
Active-Sync
Razer mouse

this is pissing me off to no ends, I can't get more then 2-3 minutes of play sometimes before it does it. Other times, I can play for a long time with no issues though 🙁

 

[SmackAHobo]

Try and re-update your drivers again just incase. If that doesn't work again perhaps you should backup your saved games for it and try a re-install

 

[daveybrat]

Easiest way to find out if it's something running in the background is this:

Go to run, type in msconfig and hit ok.

Go to the startup tab and near the bottom click 'disable all'

Go to the services tab now and near the bottom check the box that says 'hide all microsoft services' and then click the 'disable all' button.

Finally click OK on the bottom, yes to reboot the pc, and when you get back in windows, nothing but windows processes should be running in the background. Try playing some games now, and if the crashing ceases, you have to go back and turn on those things we checked off one by one till you find the culprit.

good luck!

 

[Slikkster]

I'd be inclined to think that something is coming into the foreground (maybe not visibly) to switch ya to the desktop. I find this happens more when I'm gaming in Windows 98 than the same game in Windows XP. For example, instant messaging or antivirus updates always steal the foreground in Windows 98, and I have to alt-tab back into the game if I prefer to let those apps run.

 

[dfuze]

My AVG antivirus has done that to me a couple of times while playing BF2.