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Games randomly tab to desktop after non-specific duration

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  • Games
  • Desktops
  • Video
  • Graphics
September 6, 2014 1:38:16 PM

Hello,

The last few days an issue with my pc has come to light, whenever I play a video game for a while, it tabs out to the desktop. It doesn't appear to be triggered by anything I do manually (left it alone for a few minutes to get a drink and hello desktop) and I can't recreate the scenario in which it happens. It doesn't happen when I watch a video on fullscreen and I can "resolve" the issue by playing games on fullscreen windowed mode, sadly they don't all offer this option so some games are no longer playable : (

I checked around the forums here looking for a solution, like updating DirectX (it told me I had a better or up to date version), which did solve some other guy's problem, not mine sadly.

I run windows 7 64 bit, 8 GB ram, i5-2500K CPU and an AMD Radeon HD 6900 GPU. Not sure what other information I can/need to provide.

I'm not a big computer expert myself so I don't really know what to do, if anyone could help me I'd appreciate it. (Like I said, not a big expert, so if I need to run certain programs and submit a log or something, please tell me).

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