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When playing the game the window will occasionally minimize and send me to the desktop for no discernible reason. It happens most often when clicking the mouse to do something but does not always happen on a mouseclick, instead sometimes opting to minimize when I press "a" to attack. The game continues normally when I click on it's tab, so this isn't gamebreaking but it is incredibly annoying.

Using Grayface's patch, windows 7 ultimate 64, radeon 5770, q6600 processor, 3gb of ddr2 800 ram. Happens both when no other programs are running and during normal operation. Have already checked for spy/malware and other such annoying things. Please advise.

EDIT: Since it might also be relevant the timing on the minimization is about once every 15 minutes or so but not exactly every 15 minutes. Sometimes it's as short as 5 or as long as 40.
Post edited March 25, 2011 by Rotema
This question / problem has been solved by faederimage
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Rotema: When playing the game the window will occasionally minimize and send me to the desktop for no discernible reason. It happens most often when clicking the mouse to do something but does not always happen on a mouseclick, instead sometimes opting to minimize when I press "a" to attack. The game continues normally when I click on it's tab, so this isn't gamebreaking but it is incredibly annoying.

Using Grayface's patch, windows 7 ultimate 64, radeon 5770, q6600 processor, 3gb of ddr2 800 ram. Happens both when no other programs are running and during normal operation. Have already checked for spy/malware and other such annoying things. Please advise.

EDIT: Since it might also be relevant the timing on the minimization is about once every 15 minutes or so but not exactly every 15 minutes. Sometimes it's as short as 5 or as long as 40.
I am having the same problem (win 7 x64, nvidia card) but it minimzes every 4-5 seconds, making it completely unplayable.
The game's quite old, so it's possible that things like the bubbles that pop up from the task bar in windows that say things like "your antivirus has been updated" or "so and so has signed into messenger" are disrupting it's focus and causing it to minimise.

I'm not experiencing the problem on win7 x64/radeon, but maybe going into the game's settings and try swapping it between hardware and software 3d mode (one might work fine where the other doesn't) or similar with the sound settings.

Some of the other threads people solved/minimised problems by doing weird things that don't obviously relate to their problem (such as disabling SLI), so it's probably just a case of trial and error for a bit until you find something that has an effect.
Hey guys,

I just bought both mm7 and mm8 and I am experiencing the same problem : every 4 or 5 seconds, the game is minimized so I can't play to either game.

I tried both software and hardware renderers too, also switched the audio controller settings with all possible combination without results.

Have you found a solution yet ?

Ps : Playing (trying to, at least) on a Turion II X2 M520, RAdeon HD 4570, windows 7 x64, 4GB ram
Post edited May 01, 2011 by faeder
OK nevermind, found out a way to make it work.

I noticed that mm7-rel could be lauched without the problem, so I compared it with the mm7.exe (which is the only one that works with patches and mods). And I noticed that the gog installer had enabled Win95 compatibility on mm7.exe and not on the -rel. So I disabled it and voila ! No more stuttering and minimizing to the task bar !

Problem solved for me.