Lately I've been having this problem with GTA IV and FSX. It will randomly just exit to desktop like i ALT+TAB out but of course I dont. The games are still running fine and can be ALT+TABd back in to but its just annoying when it happens. There are no pop ups or anything to cause it to do it. Sometimes I can play for hours and no issues but other times it will do it twice in 1 minute. Any thoughts as to whats causing this? 

It's most likely an external program. Try closing everything that isn't necessary while playing, and see if it still occurs. 

It's most likely an external program. Try closing everything that isn't necessary while playing, and see if it still occurs. 

Thats what I thought too but I don't run anything else while I play and I've ended everything via the task manager that isn't critical or that hasn't caused a issue in the past. Its just strange because it exits and I expect there to be a window there with a message or something wants to be updated and theres nothing.... Its annoying especially with GTA IV online because I crash out then because of being on the desktop for to long.

I have the same issue but my computer crashed to the blue screen of death a few times about a month back. It seems fine now but since then I've had this problem. I assumed that was the cause.

I've had this same issue forever...game just minimizes for no reason.  I never have found an answer to this.  I have no external programs running, I turn off all unnecessary services when gaming.  There are many questions in this regard if you Google it, but no decent answer that I've found yet.

 

DrDetroit

I too have this issue. Hopefully someone knows how to fix it?

Same here sometimes.

Have you changed any thing since the last time you played?

 

Sergeanto!

Well I am not sure what you are playing on, I'll just tell you what i play for reference. I play on a windows 8 laptop.  Its great playing GTA but if I use the mouse pad instead of a USB mouse, I will hit the edge of the mouse pad while changing view and it will take me to desktop not allowing me to go back to GTA.

Well I am not sure what you are playing on, I'll just tell you what i play for reference. I play on a windows 8 laptop.  Its great playing GTA but if I use the mouse pad instead of a USB mouse, I will hit the edge of the mouse pad while changing view and it will take me to desktop not allowing me to go back to GTA.

Windows 7 x64 on a desktop so no issues with the mouse. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I guess I'll just wait and see if it stops or if someone replies with a solution or idea for a solution.

 

@ Perez - Nope, I haven't touched anything since it worked fine to when it started to do it (besides windows auto updates that the computer did itself). Its only been doing the crash/exit thing for maybe 2-3 weeks. I thought maybe it was just something with GTA but when I was playing FSX the other day it did it for that game too. 

Windows 7 x64 on a desktop so no issues with the mouse. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I guess I'll just wait and see if it stops or if someone replies with a solution or idea for a solution.

 

@ Perez - Nope, I haven't touched anything since it worked fine to when it started to do it (besides windows auto updates that the computer did itself). Its only been doing the crash/exit thing for maybe 2-3 weeks. I thought maybe it was just something with GTA but when I was playing FSX the other day it did it for that game too. 

I know this is a pretty typical answer, but have you reinstalled the game yet? Also, do you have an anti-virus program on your PC?

I think its an LCPDFR problem cuz i have it too and i didn't have it before i installed the mod

Is it at the same time every time? I had that happen everyday at 8 PM because there was a program scheduled to check for updates at that time. There was no pop up message at all, it just tabbed out. Check your task scheduler in Windows to see if anything might be causing it.