Alt-tabbing automatically?

This is an odd one for me.

Launcher starts up. Launcher starts the game. Game comes up, but it's as if I've tabbed to something else, and it's not "on top".

So I click on the password box to input the password. The game blinks twice, and then it's de-selected, as if I tabbed to something else.

I have to rapid click on the game a few times to get it to be the selected program.

This is while running full screen, updater behind it.

Graphics card or anyone have another guess?

I doubt it's graphics card, it sounds like it's another program you've got running trying to steal focus, and it's causing interference.

I'd suggest posting a HiJack This log (also doing CoH Helper can't hurt).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

It's always possible, you could set it to automatically exit once the game is launched. If that does make your issue go away, I'd still suspect the real culprit is somewhere else on the system.

I'd imagine, though, you've got a fair bit of software still running in the background (if it's an OEM machine that hasn't been manually wiped, you likely got a bunch of their crap running... I once had an issue where an HP background process would make CoX freeze for 20+ seconds every time you alt-tabbed in/out!).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.