it fixed itself after playing almost all day and having the problem, alt tabbed all day, did it again came back and everythings fine. Edit: and its back so any help would be much appreciated

I'm having the exact same issue - just started out of nowhere today.

Hi folks, can i check what OS you are using? Are you on Windows 11 or something else? I have seen multiple users reporting this problem lately and believe that the people who get this issue are on Windows 11, which appears to have numerous issues with older games.

Unfortunately, no one is maintaining this Steam build, and no one associated to Activision is officially reading this forum. The only maintainers of the game in the form of compatibility with modern operating systems are GOG.com but they don’t read this forum at all for obvious reasons. The steam build is a bit older than that offered by GOG nowadays [the Steam copy was based on a version released by GOG back in 2015 or so].

It would be a good idea to buy the game on GOG to confirm that the and if the issues persist on that version, report a bug to them via their support form so they can see the scale of issues with the game on Windows 11, so they can get it properly updated and preserved under their Preservation Programme.

I am on Windows 11, yes.

Windows 11

Thanks for confirming, yes this is most likely Windows 11 shenanigans at play. Please re-purchase the game on GOG.com, confirm the issue is still present on that copy, then submit a support ticket to the GOG support team here: https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?game=1207659046&form=technical&product=gog

More reports will help get these issues prioritised and fixed, although those fixes are probably not going to make their way to this Steam version as its been abandoned. You could try setting a compatibility mode for the game on a shortcut to run as Windows 10 [or Windows 7] and see if that fixes it in the interim.

Apologies for the inconvenience!

Windows 11 for Me. I pulled a TLDR on the explanasion though. Is their a shorter reason/way to fix it?

I haven't given it a thorough test yet but I got it to work using compatibility mode but had to set it to Windows 98 to get any difference.

Also, the problem seems to go away if you go to display settings and use windowed screen.

Originally posted by pt2ratm:

I haven't given it a thorough test yet but I got it to work using compatibility mode but had to set it to Windows 98 to get any difference.

Also, the problem seems to go away if you go to display settings and use windowed screen.

This is good to know, although windowed mode is very buggy on these older games and its obviously not ideal that you have to set a compatibility mode on the game to make it not happen. We definitely need GOG to fix the build so that players can simply buy the game, install it and do nothing else to get the required experience: if a game is sold whereby players have to set a compatibility setting for it to work, its not really working as intended, so hopefully you can get this fed back to the GOG devs via their bug reporting form so it can be patched up for all. 👍