Windows 7 for gaming, was fine now ever 40/60sec it cuts to desktop, game still running. ANNOYING

[Adam Senior]

Basically as Title.

My New Rig;

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W Modular High Performance Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 32MB Cache
Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT128M4SSD2 - Crucial Technology
ASUS LGA 1155 - Z68 - PCIe 3.0 and UEFI BIOS Intel Z68 ATX
Intel Core i5-2500K Processor - Intel
Corsair 16 GB Vengeance Low Profile 1600mhz PC3-12800
Sapphire 11196-00-40G Radeon HD 7950 3GB DDR5 HDMI / DVI-I / Dual Mini DP PCI-Express Graphics Card - SAPPHIRE
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (RR-212E-20PK-R2)
LG UH12LS28K LightScribe 12x SATA Blu-Ray Combo Internal Drive

SO everything should be able to run new games without any issues...Well this was the case.

Now for some reason every 40/50/60 seconds it cuts out of the game back to desktop. Yet the game is still running in the background.

I am eagerly awaiting Borderlands 2 so I want to resolve this before its release.

Thanks in Advance. Any questions welcome!

 

[Raumarik]

Check what you have installed, sounds like something isn't happy not being in the foreground. Malware check, any utils etc installed with drivers - the whole thing.

If you have a keyboard that can disable the windows key it's one more thing to rule out too.