Sorry to all for the misinformation. My daughter and my wife both play a few games om their computers, and I haven't heard any complaints, so I assumed there would be no problems. The only game I play is MOHAA, and I haven't played it in months. I guess I'll dig it out and try it to see what happens. Sorry all.
Not sure I'd characterize it as misinformation-- I think you're probably right in 95% of cases. This is one instance of only a couple I have found that F@H doesn't play well with others-- and it very might be the other way around.
Another instance I just found was with SecondLife. Here, the problem isn't as pronounced, but there's definitely a performance degredation if F@H is actively folding. In this case, it's simply a matter of pausing the folding until you're done with the game.
Pausing, unfortunately, is something you can't do with the console version. However, even stopping the console version, you'll restart at the last saved spot, so it's not too bad-- unless you have a crappy WinME machine that always fails the checksum, restarting the whole blasted project over again.... but I digress!
No problem. I was playing Dungeon Siege II last night, which I just got. I paused folding while running it. When it started I had a lot of annoyance with it minimizing at the end of movies (startup movies and cutscenes). During actual gameplay it ran fine. I'm not sure if it was my firewall, my virus scanner, or F@H. I'll give it a shot when I get home and see if it persists in minimizing with F@H completely exited.