How I Solved MY Problem Running Fallout 1 (Folding@Home)

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First time out of the vault
Just in case someone else can benefit from my experience. When I first tried to play Fallout, the screen would jump back to the desktop after a few seconds. I'd click on the Fallout program on the task bar and be treated to a few more precious seconds before I was looking at my desktop again.

I determined (thorugh trial and error) the cause to be my Folding@Home program. A distributed computing client that uses spare processor cycles to help combat biological evils. Closing the program eliminated the issue. Thus this might solve the problems of people using other such clients such as Rosetta@Home, that one that finds prime numbers (what a waste of power!) and the one the looks for extraterrestial signals (no comment)...
 
So the lesson is that if you have a program that continually steals focus, and this program keeps stealing focus from Fallout, kill the focus-stealing program. Well, that makes sense. Or turn off focus stealing using TweakUI, though I'm not sure that always works.
 
Meh, I play with LHC@Home running safely in the background...

It seems this is related to the "blackouts bug for xp" and it varies greatly among systems. But it's a good call nonetheless.
 
Using TweakUI to stop focus stealing didn't help in my siutation. I actually don't have any clue why Folding@Home (F@H) would be stealing focus since it just has an icon in the task tray that is automatically hidden, doesn't change unless I pause the program and the taskbar is set to hide anyway (that's two levels of 'hide'!).
 
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