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games lag when using mouse

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by colinr

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the games quake3 and others stall when using the mouse for movement but when i use the keyboard the game runs fine. Computer build aopen63 pro/ 32mb tnt2/celeron500/64mb ram-133 its a fresh build

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by gbworld

The lag here is most likely caused by your mouse driver. There are a couple of things that you can do here.

1. See if there is a new driver for the mouse. As time goes by, better drivers are created.

2. Add more memory. This may solve an errant memory eater, but will not help if the mouse driver is really bad. While 64mb seems like a lot, windows (assumption) eats a lot of memory by putting a lot of stuff in the base OS.

3. Load a generic mouse driver. This will only help if the problem is a driver like Intellimouse.

Before doing anything, you should run some system utilties to see how much memory is being taken up and whether or not the Celeron (since it has no cache) is the problem. I do not think these are the problems. The new mouse driver, if there is one, is a no brainer, as it costs nothing and will improve things regardless.

Memory is the normal reason for a hang, so check and see if memory could be an issue.

Gregory A. Beamer
MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

by colinr

add extra ram but no change i had already changed the mouse. I had a spare from another computer thats what had me thinking it was something else when the problem was still there. The 2 mouses had the same problem broken wires in in the cable.

by mattster67

You might have an IRQ conflict with the mouse and some other peripheral. I have seen this when the modem and mouse use the same IRQ, the modem only downloads when the mouse is moved. Go into Device Manager, click on View Devices By Connection and click on computer. This will tell you what is using what IRQ. IT could be the video and mouse are using the same IRQ.

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by colinr

add extra ram but no change i had already changed the mouse. I had a spare from another computer thats what had me thinking it was something else when the problem was still there. The 2 mouses had the same problem broken wires in in the cable.

by rgoodman

I agree with both previous posts..Try a new mouse, they are cheap and definitely get more RAM Memory, especially playing games like Quake, Unreal Tournament or Tribes..Most of these games run best with at least 128MB RAM and its 'dirt cheap' right now...Updating All Drivers is a must too and then reinstalling DirectX ver. 8.x...The other thing that was alluded too was available performance when you join an online game or play by yourself; use ctrl-alt-del to End Task all but Systray and Explorer and any internet app you may be needing------if you got a 'bunch' of icons in your taskbar, then you have many apps running in the backround and your performance availibilty is getting "sucked" down and this will slow many of the game features.....If you don't want to "ctrl-alt-del" everytime, just go to start/run and type in msconfig and hit 'startup' tab and you can pretty much click-off most of those functions---you may need to add some back in if they are necessary but most aren't and you can always find them in you programs file!!! GL...

by colinr

add extra ram but no change i had already changed the mouse. I had a spare from another computer thats what had me thinking it was something else when the problem was still there. The 2 mouses had the same problem broken wires in in the cable.

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