Hey guys, i've been having this problem for a while now

Every 15-25 minutes or so of gameitme, my SC2 will keep jumping to desktop. and when i alt tab back in tot he game it takes around 5-10 seconds to return to game screen. This is seriosuly impairing my game and im wondering what's going on?

I am sure im not pressing the windows key or alt tab by it self.. it just jumps to desktop by itself

prototype.

Canada4200 Posts

May 25 2010 22:08 GMT

Not a real fix, but if you play in full windowed mode, you can switch between game and desktop much quicker.

FestiveLemur

United States19 Posts

May 25 2010 22:09 GMT

On a dell if you hit numlock or capslock it minimizes the game. I think this is a known bug.

Scias

United States148 Posts

May 25 2010 22:09 GMT

maybe try messing with the game options, disable windows key or something

Mr.E

United States434 Posts

May 25 2010 22:10 GMT

I wouldn't be sure its a problem with your game, which means tons of things could be going on.

IrT4nkz

229 Posts

May 25 2010 22:10 GMT

I'm having the same problem too, could it be cause of the Windows Authenticator? :|

Daudr

Sweden275 Posts

May 25 2010 22:17 GMT

I experienced a similar problem before, it had to do with having Firefox and SC2 up at the same time.
If you're running other programs in the background, you might want to check that out.

brad drac

Ireland202 Posts

May 25 2010 22:18 GMT

I would guess it's some program you have running in the background that's causing it. If you're not aware of anything else open when you're playing, try running msconfig(assuming you're running windows) and deselect "load startup items" under selective startup. If that fixes your problem, it's one of your background processes. This is for windows XP mind, but it should be fairly similar in vista and win7,

DarKFoRcE

Germany1215 Posts

May 25 2010 22:22 GMT

On May 26 2010 07:04 titan55 wrote:
Hey guys, i've been having this problem for a while now

Every 15-25 minutes or so of gameitme, my SC2 will keep jumping to desktop. and when i alt tab back in tot he game it takes around 5-10 seconds to return to game screen. This is seriosuly impairing my game and im wondering what's going on?

I am sure im not pressing the windows key or alt tab by it self.. it just jumps to desktop by itself

I've had exactly the same problem today, all of a sudden.

What fixed it for me was switchen to Windowed fullscreen, not a real "fix" i guess, but a good workaround.

orangemoney52

United States37 Posts

May 25 2010 22:25 GMT

#10

Sometimes your virus blocker will have random update notifications (like mine) that usually alt tabs me out. just disable those. The Firefox problem mentioned above is also likely. I know a number of kids who've had the issue there.

Mr.E

United States434 Posts

May 26 2010 01:29 GMT

#11

If it started after a patch or something, sounds like an interaction between sc2 and another program or windows feature.

Subversion

South Africa3627 Posts

May 26 2010 03:05 GMT

#12

Also adware/spyware can do this...

DooMDash

United States1015 Posts

May 26 2010 03:58 GMT

#13

On May 26 2010 07:10 IrT4nkz wrote:
I'm having the same problem too, could it be cause of the Windows Authenticator? :|

Mine was. I got rid of it

Budzlight

United States578 Posts

May 26 2010 04:01 GMT

#14

always summin with sc2 these days,...

Powda

United States116 Posts

May 26 2010 04:03 GMT

#15

I've been having the same issue, but I don't have to alt tab back in.

Aside from the insane amount of lag AND latency issues after patch 13 on US servers....I randomly get alt tabbed to a black screen then right back to SC2 a few seconds later. I only get this while playing sc2 since patch 13.

Been in beta since start.

vega12

Japan73 Posts

May 26 2010 04:31 GMT

#16

For me it would jump back like every 5-10 seconds sometimes. When I turned off Firefox though it didn't jump back to desktop anymore. I have like 20 tabs open at a time, so I'm guessing one of the pages I have open was doing something to get the attention of the computer?

Dehner

Canada18 Posts

May 26 2010 05:51 GMT

#17

A friend of mine gaming on my computer always had this problem. Took a while to realize he was pressing his thumb down on my mouse (Logitech MX1100) and that button was assigned to alt-tab, I just never moved my thumb that way. Randomest things...

Crucius

Australia299 Posts

May 26 2010 06:10 GMT

#18

It happens when something pops up under SC2; eg. If you have MSN running and someone signs in (assuming youre not set to busy), that pop up will cause SC2 to minimize

TheFinalWord

Australia790 Posts

May 26 2010 06:42 GMT

#19

On May 26 2010 12:58 DooMDash wrote:

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Mine was. I got rid of it

I think mines doing the same thing, how did you get rid of it?

HolyOnes

Australia52 Posts

May 26 2010 07:46 GMT

#20

Yeah happens to me to lol, i think it might be windows authenticator =/ or ad aware blocker. I`m kinda just living with it lol

Ajsbear

Sweden63 Posts

May 26 2010 07:51 GMT

#21

Happens for me too now and then, seems to be related to Firefox for me as well. The annoying thing is that I cant tab back in right away, I have to close Firefox first to be able to tab in.

Think I saw it reported on Blizz tech forum bu their answer were just "Dont have any other applications open while playing"...