Freeze, desktop, back to game.

[dudeman12343]

So whenever I play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on my computer, every so often the game will freeze up, go to a black screen for a second, show my desktop for a second, then go back to the game. It's acting like it's alt-tabbing out, but I don't press alt-tab. And it's not just Call of Duty, it's also Empire: Total War and Tropico 3, but it's at its worst in CoDMW2.

Specs:   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz
4.0 GB RAM
GeForce 9800 GTX (Thing's a beast!)
Running Windows 7
Antec Earthwatts 650 (3 12v rails)

So these games run graphically no problem, but it's the constant but random stops that make me mad, and I have no clue why it might be doing this.

[Kurtiskain]

I would check temperatures during the gaming sessions, it could be that the card is becoming non-responsive, and 'pausing' the game to become more stable / cool down, I know ATi cards do this with VPU recover, not so sure with the nVidia cards.

[Quantos]

What other programs are running in the background?

[dudeman12343]

Sometimes i'll have Daemon Tools and EA Download manager in the background, but I always make sure I shut down any windows of anything I have open before I play any game. And heat might be a problem, but I've tried opening up the side and that didn't help at all. I just downloaded the latest driver update and haven't had any real problems yet. If that was seriously the solution, I'm sorry I wasted space with this topic :/

[Quantos]

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Let us know though.

[the_mad_joker]

Were all These Game Buyed of Downloaded

[Quantos]

Were all These Game Buyed of Downloaded

[the_mad_joker]

If these Games r Downloaded and If ripped This problem may exist [It existed in Thief 3 Technic Release]