Mouse lag (only) while gaming

Hello everyone,

I recently purchased an HP Pavilion dv2928se and after a few days was so fed up with Vista that I downgraded to XP.

After one full day of searching and tearing my hair out I finally managed to find and install drivers for everything but the quickplay function.

However, the problem I have had both with Vista and XP is that my mouse lags whenever I play games no matter what the game. I had the same problem with Battlefield 2 on Vista and then after downgrading to XP with Warcraft III The Frozen Throne (fully updated and installed).

I browsed the internet and found several possible solutions but none of them worked. Here are the ones I tried.

- http://vnboards.ign.com/titan_quest_general_board/b23058/98047716/p1/

I checked my hardware acceleration and it is at Full.

- http://kevinmuma.com/blog/2005/11/13/mouse-lag-fix/

I do not have enchanced pointer precision turned on.

- http://vnboards.ign.com/titan_quest_tech_support/b23097/99862136/p1/?8

I have a logitech mouse/keyboard and I checked the option " Disable acceleration in games".

Many posters suggested updating my video drivesr, and I did to the very latest up to date update.

Last but not least I've been using a wireless (MX3200 logitech) mouse,but I also tried with the touchpad and a wired one so that's not the problem.

I think that's everything here are my specs and the respective links...

- My Laptop and Support link

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3753487

- My specs

Microprocessor 2.00 GHz AMD Turion X2 TL-60 Dual-Core Mobile Processor

Microprocessor Cache 512 KB + 512 KB L2 Cache

Memory 3072 MB

Memory Max Up to 4GB DDR2 (Up to 1 GB may not be available due to 32-bit operating system resource requirements)

Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M

Video Memory Up to 1071 MB

Hard Drive 250 GB (5400 rpm)

Multimedia Drive LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support

Display 14.1" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)

Fax/Modem High speed 56K modem

Network Card Integrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN
Wireless Connectivity Wireless with Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n

Sound Altec Lansing speakers

Keyboard 101-key compatible

Pointing Device Touch Pad with dedicated vertical and horizontal Scroll Up/Down pad

PC Card Slots

* One ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)

External Ports

* 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
* 3 Universal Serial Bus USB 2.0
* 1 VGA (15-pin)
* 1 RJ-11 (modem)
* 1 TV-Out (S-video)
* 1 RJ -45 (LAN)
* 2 headphone-out
* 1 microphone-in
* 1 notebook expansion port 3
* 1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)
* 1 Consumer IR

Dimensions 13.15" (L) x 9.33" (W) x 1.02" (min H)/1.54" (max H)
Weight 5.25lbs
Security

* Kensington MicroSaver lock slot
* Power-on password
* Accepts 3rd party security lock devices

Power

* 65 W AC Adapter
* 6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)

 

Give this a try. Move your mouse sensor to the USB that gets a direct line of sight of the mouse itself. It worked for me. Use a USB extender if you have to.

 

I have the same problem (non-wireless mouse), and I have yet to figure out a solution.

It seems to only occur in certain games (Warcraft 3, for one... Very annoying, since micro-ing with the mouse is very important) only, though.

If anyone else have any suggestions or fixes... please post .

FYI: This seems to be a DirectX related problem, if you play WC3 under OpenGL mode (by running it with the -opengl argument/parameter), then this problem won't occur (at least for me). But the game does run considerably slower (again, for me) once the action gets going.

 

I have an MX3200 keyboard mouse setup. The issue is most likely because of the mouse, it uses IR to communicate with the adaptor. It's terribly slow. I also had mouse lag in EVERY game with that **** mouse. I upgraded to a microsoft wired optical mouse and no more problems.

I actually have two MX3200 setups and they're both the same way, the mouse is trash, get a new one if you can.

 

Im having the SAME problem with my notebook. I am also interested in downgrading to xp. (if you ever find the time, you should put up a tutorial. Im sure many of the hardware drivers are similar in their current line up.)

i have the HP Compaq cq50-110us.
May be a processor problem?

Specifications
# 15.4-inch (Diagonal) High Definition BrightView Widescreen Display, 1280 x 800 Resolution
# 2.0 GHz AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Dual Core Mobile Processor with 1 MB L2 Cache
# 3072 MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm), 200 GB (4200RPM) Hard Drive (SATA), NVIDIA GeForce 8200M with up to 1407 MB Total Available Graphics Memory