Mouse Problems

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I have been having problems with my mouse when playing older games such as Half-Life and Quake 2. What happens is that my mouse will not always respond to movements. So if I move my mouse right, my character will look right about 5 seconds after I do it. It makes these games nearly unplayable.

My mouse works perfectly in new games such as Call of Duty and Battlefield Vietnam.

Other info:

USB Optical Mouse
Windows XP Home Edition

Thanks for any help. :cheers:

 

[psyno]

V-Sync on?

 

[blahblahblah]

nope

(10 char limit)

 

[psyno]

Hmm didn't know about the limit. Had exactly ten above.

Well if it was on I would have suggested disabling it or reducing the amount of buffered frames. I guess you're probably not using Glide, so is it D3D or OpenGL then, and have you tried the other? (To me it sounds like a problem with your video drivers). Still try to reduce the number of buffered frames, though I'm not confident it will help anymore.

 

[blahblahblah]

Wouldn't you know, it is a OpenGL problem.

How would I reduce the number of buffered frames?

Thanks for your help.

 

[psyno]

Glad to help. (You should try updating your OpenGL driver btw).

It depends on the driver set you have, really...you might need something like RivaTuner as I just looked through my nVidia driver options and couldn't find it (sorry ). I've never really had to adjust it with my non-3dfx cards (the 3dfx Tools allow you to set it easily).

 

[blahblahblah]

I have a radeon 9600 Pro. I am currently using the 4.3 Cat drivers (to lazy to install the new ones).

My control panel doesn't have any options like the ones you are describing. I guess Quake 2 will go in my pile of games that are ravaged by technology. ;(

 

[umop]

Are your video card settings set to default? Because sometimes when I use AA and FSAA on a few games, it will cause mouse lag.

 

[blahblahblah]

Settings = Default (No AA or AF)