having problems with Prince of Persia: Sands of Time; during gameplay, PoP keeps on switching to desltop every 5 minutes

[mAdD INDIAN]

The computer I'm using is: HP Media Center M380n. It has the NVidia FX5200 graphics chip with Directx 9b (installed via the PoP installer) running Win XP SP1.

Now the problem is that everytime I'm playing the game, Windows (or PoP) switches to the desktop. Then I have to switch back to PoP to continue to play. This happens regulary, and is quite irritating.

I was wondering if there was a solution to this. I already checked the PoP site and went thru their FAQs, but I couldnt' find this problem anywhere <it's not hte Sticky Keys problem either).

 

[LordJezo]

Is anything else running when you are playing the game, or any thing else open?

I have noticed that when playing games that even an open AIM window can steal the focus of the game and cause it to do exactly what you are saying.

If you start the game and just let it sit at the title screen (the one after the intro movies.. with the jungle in the back ground asking you what you want to do) and if you dont touch any keys or the mouse (turn your mouse upside down as well to guard from bumping) will it still quit out? I would suggest doing this and letting it sit for a while and seeing if it does the same thing. Make sure you exit all other programs and close all your windows, etc. If it still quits out then it looks like you found a bug! Congrats. If it does not quit out it may have something to do with your key set-up.

Also, does it quit in the same spot every time or is it random? Try going back to a saved game when it quits and see if it does it in the same spot.