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Games: screen jumps back to desktop
I got a weird problem with running new games on Win7. Sometime, while playing Mirror's Edge, the screen jumps back to the desktop. The game is still running. I can hear the sound and the engaging enemy. Then after a few seconds the screen switches back to the game and I can play on.
Sometimes it happens serveral times in a row, sometimes I can play for hours without a problem. That is really annoying, especially because most of the time the gamecharacter won't survive this short absence of control.
It also happens while playing ArmedAssault, but rarely.
Yesterday I downloaded the new Fear2 demo and this screenjumping was getting worse. I can't play for 20min without jumping back to the desktop. Unfortunately now the screen won't jump back to the game anymore. I hear the sound, but all I can see is my desktop. All I can do then is killing the process - and reboot the system manually - because when I start the game again (or any other 3D application) the screen will switch immediately back to the desktop.
Haven't tried other games so far.
My Sys-specs:
C2D E8400
8GB 800MHz Ram
8800GTS 320Mb
Gigabyte P35 DS3
Temperatures are normal. I doublechecked the Ram. I updated the graphicdriver with WindowsUpdate. No error-messages are generated (well at least no error-icon appears). ME and ArmedAssault are running on WinXP without any problems.
I googled around for a few hours and maybe I found a solution but i can't get it to work. What I found is a problem with the "Timeout Detection and Recovery" tool. This tool recognizes when the framerate drops to zero for a timeamount of 2 seconds and then reboots the graphicdriver.
The solution is simple: turning of this tool by changing values in the registry.
Here is the link to the official microsoft-website:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...m_timeout.mspx
my problem now: I don't have this certain entry in the reg they want me to edit.
What can I do? Any suggestions? Other solutions?
BuddyCasino