While playing games after 5 min it flashes back to windows

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Darnell

Hello,

For some apparent reason when im playing any video
game on my laptop, after 5 mins it flashes back to
windows and hides in the taskbar. Please contacting via
email if anyone knows this is happening
 
Don't know for sure, since you didn't list any of your system information,
but a lot of laptops simply don't have the graphics power to run games -
especially those games which require about 32 MB on a graphics card.

I'd check your system, making sure you're got the latest drivers installed,
are fully updated from Windows Update, and then look at the system
requirements for the games themselves.
 
Hi Darnell,

Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
rules of thumb though to always keep in mind. Shut DL accelerators, fire-
walls and antivirus programs off while downloading or installing drivers and
updates. Also check the game's website (or Fileplanet.com) for patches.

Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you install DirectX 9.0b:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/9/c/c9c8a1d4-7690-4c98-baf3-0c67e7f3751f/dx90b_redist.exe

Here are the steps I recommend you use to update your driver:

1. To identify the make and model of your card, right click your
Desktop, choose Properties / Settings / Advanced / Adapter.

2. Download the latest video driver for your card online, using
http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers
to find the website to download from. I also have advanced
video driver and direct X troubleshooting steps on that page.

3. Save the .exe driver (or uncompress the zip file) to a folder
in My Documents named after the driver version number.

4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.

5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.

6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.

7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.

8. If the driver is a (exe)program file, GO DIRECTLY TO step 10.

9. When Windows prompts you to install the video adapter, click
"Install from a list or specific location", click the "Browse" button,
browse to the My documents folder where you saved the driver,
and finally click on one of the driver files to begin installation.
Skip step 10 and go directly to step 11.

10. When Windows prompts you to install the video adapter, click
"Cancel" and Double click the driver program to begin installation.

11. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 1024x768 Screen Resolution.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
my website: http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11

Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
your Video card. These steps are listed at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk

Perhaps the old Nvidia drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
case, use this utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step 7:
http://content.guru3d.com/index.php?page=detonatorrip&menu=0

The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
(Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:

BETA Drivers: http://download.guru3d.com/
OMEGA Drivers: http://www.omegacorner.com/

There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them! :-)

--
Cheers, Microsoft MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

For Product Support: Contact a Microsoft expert online or by phone using:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;top - Post Here, or:
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| Hello,
|
| For some apparent reason when im playing any video
| game on my laptop, after 5 mins it flashes back to
| windows and hides in the taskbar. Please contacting via
| email if anyone knows this is happening
 
Darnell said:
Hello,

For some apparent reason when im playing any video
game on my laptop, after 5 mins it flashes back to
windows and hides in the taskbar. Please contacting via
email if anyone knows this is happening
Click to expand...

Take a look to see if you have a screen saver or some
"power down" settings that may be kicking in...the system
may consider that when in a game the mouse/desktop is idle.
(not unusual...since keyboard/mouse is mapped to game engine).

Also in your BIOS allow the "APG aperture" to be equal to or higher
than the video card ram, and use latest DirectX and video drivers...
lastly...if you specified a custom swapfile (pagefile) then reset it to
"Windows managed". Hopefully you have at least 128mb ram.

Oh yeah...before_and_ after any large file/application additions
to your system...defragment the hard drive. Defragment before
to make sure the file system is all together, then defragment
again afterwards to keep all the game/application files united.

There is also consideration some background task is firing_up
and stealing the main windows "focus"...so one help is to uncheck
"keep the taskbar on top of other windows".

But often...in your case there is some display card driver problem
with "on the fly" screen resolution or "mode" switching (in game).
Perhaps "fog" or some other item is not supported, try 16bit color
and try different sound types (D3D, EAX...or sound_render in software).

hth

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