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    Hi Logitech mouse idle CPU usage

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by TANWare, May 30, 2014.

  1. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    I have a Logitech Anywhere Mouse with SetPoint driver 6.61.15. On the support site it claims these drivers address a high CPU usage during sleep but I have found another issue.

    I had noticed whenever I came up to my laptop when the screen was blanked out the CPU fan was churning. For a while I thought it was idle background processes. I started to get suspicious so I set the blank out to start after 1 minute and the CPU fan almost immediately started to spin. Went back and started system resource monitor and let the screen go blank. After 60 seconds I moved the mouse o wake it up and found the Logitech driver consuming 50% cpu of core0 for the time period while blank.

    I then promptly uninstalled the SetPoint software and, with a reboot for good measure, tried the test again. Well no more CPU churning for no reason at all.

    I should note this is with the screen set to blank and the CPU set to never sleep.
     
    TANWare, May 30, 2014
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    I have never been happy with any mouse software except the untouchable ThinkPad TrackPoint.

    If Windows doesn't recognize it (immediately); the mouse (or keyboard for that matter) is garbage around here.
     
    tilleroftheearth, May 30, 2014
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  3. TomJGX

    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    +1000... Every mouse I've ever used hasn't required any mouse software..And personally, I don't want to install any...
     
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  4. TANWare

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    It was nice for control of the extra buttons but not nice enough to warrant the high core usage. All is fine now so be it as it may.
     
    TANWare, May 30, 2014
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