Your screen resolution or refresh rate is different than the game's resolution or refresh rate.
Try playing the game in windowed mode when that happens, or go change the settings to match.
"You are trying to set a resolution/refresh rate higher than your monitor can handle.
Try going to Advanced settings on the Video control panel and check "hide modes your monitor cannot display" (or whatever looks like this) and set everything up again." from
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/264998-45-solve-display-video-mode