I updated my nvidia drivers yesterday to the newest 181.20 for 8600GT I did a proper uninstall of the old ones and defragged after installed new ones and everything, cleared shaders etc just to be sure but ever since I put the new ones on the mouse pauses every couple of seconds, if I spin it in a circle (on desktop) it will stop for a split second which makes BF2 unplayable as I am a sniper, I think there is a drop in framerate when this happens too, anyone have any ideas what it could be? I had a look desperately to find system restore files but they have all gone, so I tried roll back drivers and still the same thing- I wish I just stuck with how it was now, how can installing new drivers cause this?
Tried older drivers?
yes ive tried 3 different sets of older drivers but it still does the same thing, ive cleaned the registry and the old driver files manually and put the newest ones back on defragged etc the mouse only pauses when the hard drive makes a short crunching sound and it does it constantly in BF2, it never used to with the drivers i had before, now i cant do anything to get it back working it seems
ive done a virus scan, there are no programs running in background at all eithere
Well turn your AV off when you play BF2. Also try re-seating your RAM, it might have come loose or something. BTW what are your system specs? How much RAM do you have?
2gb ram
athlon 64 3000
8600gt
500w psu
the processor is overclocked quite a lot to 2.5 ghz on stock cooling i used to have problems before with it but underclocked it a bit and it seems ok, it shouldnt be that anyway because the stuttering problem only started happening when i installed new nvidia drivers, the thing i dont get is why i still get it when i revert to old ones
it seems to be happening when the computer is under any sort of load whatsoever, so when im moving the cursor on desktop its smooth if the hard drive isnt crunching, but if i even hover quickly over some icons to make a tiny bit of load it starts skipping, so in bf2 it does it all the time
athlon 64 3000
8600gt
500w psu
the processor is overclocked quite a lot to 2.5 ghz on stock cooling i used to have problems before with it but underclocked it a bit and it seems ok, it shouldnt be that anyway because the stuttering problem only started happening when i installed new nvidia drivers, the thing i dont get is why i still get it when i revert to old ones
it seems to be happening when the computer is under any sort of load whatsoever, so when im moving the cursor on desktop its smooth if the hard drive isnt crunching, but if i even hover quickly over some icons to make a tiny bit of load it starts skipping, so in bf2 it does it all the time
Last edited by H3RB4L ABU53 (2009-01-10 17:20:55)
Does it make the USB disconnect - reconnect sound ?
I had this issue a while back aswell.. fixed it by unplugging mouse, removing all mouse drivers and software, going to Hardware management and remove all mouse HID values.. then reboot before plugging mouse back in and after plugging it in reinstall drivers (SetPoint if you have logitech like I do)
I had this issue a while back aswell.. fixed it by unplugging mouse, removing all mouse drivers and software, going to Hardware management and remove all mouse HID values.. then reboot before plugging mouse back in and after plugging it in reinstall drivers (SetPoint if you have logitech like I do)
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
It doesn't make the usb sound but i tried plugging it into a different usb port and it didnt work, i might try what you said about reinstalling setpoint- could maybe nvidia drivers have done something to logitech ones? if nothing else works i might just give it a few days of use and see if it sorts itself, if not then i dont know, save up for a new pc for an excuse to reformat lol
tried reinstalling setpoint, did nothing for me, im going to try a couple more older forceware drivers i cant even remember the 1 i had when it was working fine lol was a few months back i didnt want to update it because i knew something like this would happen lol but felt i should give it a go, ive tried about 4 older ones now ill try 2 more if nothing then i havent got a clue- it happened to me before and i did system restore which got rid of it, but all the system restores have gone now
I'm assuming you've already tried the driver "rollback" feature?
So far ive tried virus scan, reinstall setpoint, clean reinstall of all sorts of forceware drivers, uninstall then update chipset drivers, defrag hard drive countless times, restart countless times, uninstall stuff in safe mode, rollback drivers, registry clean, ive tried everything i can think of and nothing works, i cant play bf2 at all now and using desktop is really annoying i cant believe this i give up on my pc for now gona have to stick with xbox and racing games lol
Put the CPU back to stock. BF2 doesnt like OCs or UCs
Tried resetting CPU and GPU to stock clocks did nothing, tried it without readyboost did nothing, im back with the newest drivers now as it doesn't seem to be a graphic driver problem I'm realy frustrated because I can't play BF2 any more, and using pc in general is annoying with mouse skipping all over the place, I'm tempted to go and try XP! But knowing my luck I will still have the same problem
I just checked the resource monitor, on the hard drive read/write section, something like BF2 objects client and another BF2 file under svchost or something is taking up 10x more read than anything else, even when I'm on desktop- any reason for that? Even if that is the cause I don't see why updating drivers changed this?
I just checked the resource monitor, on the hard drive read/write section, something like BF2 objects client and another BF2 file under svchost or something is taking up 10x more read than anything else, even when I'm on desktop- any reason for that? Even if that is the cause I don't see why updating drivers changed this?
Last edited by H3RB4L ABU53 (2009-01-12 09:55:11)
Have you checked your mouse on another computer?
Mouse pauses/disconnects are also one of the signs that a Logitech mouse is wearing up...
if the problem persists on another system and you have purchased the mouse within the past 3 years you can RMA it and get a brand new one on the 3 year warranty
Mouse pauses/disconnects are also one of the signs that a Logitech mouse is wearing up...
if the problem persists on another system and you have purchased the mouse within the past 3 years you can RMA it and get a brand new one on the 3 year warranty
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
I'm quite sure it's not the mouse I have a G9 now had it since June, but the same thing happened a while ago when I had a VX Nano- I don't think it's the graphics drivers either it seems like something on the system has changed since I updated drivers, it's not the mouse that is at fault, it's my PC keeps freezing for a split second as if it is processing something or accesing hard drive, that's what's giving me the mouse pauses and framerate spikes, in BF2 even with my specs I used to get a consistent 100fps, 80 at lowest in intense scenes, but now I get about 60 highest 10-20 lowest it's completely unplayable
Meh I have had this drop of framerates too.... I believe it is something that evenbalance have changed about punkbuster since it also occurs in COD4...H3RB4L ABU53 wrote:
I'm quite sure it's not the mouse I have a G9 now had it since June, but the same thing happened a while ago when I had a VX Nano- I don't think it's the graphics drivers either it seems like something on the system has changed since I updated drivers, it's not the mouse that is at fault, it's my PC keeps freezing for a split second as if it is processing something or accesing hard drive, that's what's giving me the mouse pauses and framerate spikes, in BF2 even with my specs I used to get a consistent 100fps, 80 at lowest in intense scenes, but now I get about 60 highest 10-20 lowest it's completely unplayable
But I have also experienced it in Valve games
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
It was all running absolutely fine, the problem started happening immediately after i installed new forceware drivers, but im getting closer to sorting it- my framerates are still fine i just tried bf2 again, i can get smoothish framerates when flying a jet with joypad etc or just standing still but the slowdown only seems to happen when i move my mouse, even slightly
I tried re-installing setpoint and using different usb port but it did nothing, I know with the G9 in setpoint you can choose 1000 reports a second on the poll rate, i tried that when i first got my mouse and it does eat up a lot of cpu and cause a lot of slowdown, so i reduced it to 500 which is still very accurate and never really slowed it down, i dont know what to do
I tried re-installing setpoint and using different usb port but it did nothing, I know with the G9 in setpoint you can choose 1000 reports a second on the poll rate, i tried that when i first got my mouse and it does eat up a lot of cpu and cause a lot of slowdown, so i reduced it to 500 which is still very accurate and never really slowed it down, i dont know what to do
Fixed it, installed XP instead of Vista, I been using Vista every day since the betas first came out so I was used to it XP is blisteringly fast compared no stuttering or lagginess yay plus I can turn the mouse up to 1000 reports a second and it doesnt make a slight bit of difference, with Vista it slowed BF2 to a crawl
Last edited by H3RB4L ABU53 (2009-01-16 10:06:59)