Spaz Mouse... Just damn annoying now.

[Nomans Land]

Ok does anyone know why when I play ToA every so often my mouse takes a Spaz attack and starts being all jerky and I cant do anything untill it stops coz if I try use mouse to move character I just spin around is stupid circles!

I got a new mouse just because of this and it pissing me off to find out it was the mouse...

Well right mouse button was broke on last 1 anyway so did need a new 1, but anyway. Help! Or I'll have a Spaz character while playing ToA (though it is alrdy )

 

[Kalid]

Uhmmmm some more info please

Type of mouse, mouse pad etc

One problem could be the mousepad.

Optical and wireless mice?

Clean off the bottom of the mouse, lots of dust accumulates around the soft pads that let it slide on the mouse pad or table top. Also, reset the channel button (if you have one). If all that does not work, take out the battery, put it back in and you should be good to go. I notice this behavior tends to happen as the batteries get weaker.

Scanned your computer lately for viruses?

 

[Nomans Land]

Uhmmmm some more info please

Type of mouse, mouse pad etc

One problem could be the mousepad.

Optical and wireless mice?

Clean off the bottom of the mouse, lots of dust accumulates around the soft pads that let it slide on the mouse pad or table top. Also, reset the channel button (if you have one). If all that does not work, take out the battery, put it back in and you should be good to go. I notice this behavior tends to happen as the batteries get weaker.

Scanned your computer lately for viruses?

Type of mouse wont matter as I said got a new 1 and its done it with both.

Pad might be the problem since its very dirty atm but I doubt it coz it doesnt act like that.

Last was Optical but not wireless, so no batterys to be the problem there.

This 1 is Optical and is wireless, new batterys so cant be problem and new so mouse aint dirty im sure.

I shall try cleaning the pad first see if that helps coz tbh it is VERY dirty but atm thats the only thing that I think youve pointed out can be the problem.

 

[Nomans Land]

Oh yea... Yes I do have a virus on my comp atm but its been on there ages and no problems from it before... (None of the products ive run will remove it.. AVG, Housecall and some other programe that apparently had the virus on its database but still didnt find it!)

 

[Kalid]

Oh yea... Yes I do have a virus on my comp atm but its been on there ages and no problems from it before... (None of the products ive run will remove it.. AVG, Housecall and some other programe that apparently had the virus on its database but still didnt find it!)

LOL - Name and shame the virus pls.

Well it could also be the driver, removo the mouse physially, uninstall it from your OS, reboot. connect your mouse and let the OS detect the mouse and install a fresh driver.

(Or try using the original driver you got from the manufactor, do not update it)

Edit: Oh and brand of the mouse IS helpful - to check whether or not there are any known issues and fixes for it.

 

[Nomans Land]

LOL - Name and shame the virus pls.

Well it could also be the driver, removo the mouse physially, uninstall it from your OS, reboot. connect your mouse and let the OS detect the mouse and install a fresh driver.

(Or try using the original driver you got from the manufactor, do not update it)

Edit: Oh and brand of the mouse IS helpful - to check whether or not there are any known issues and fixes for it.

Well I dunno but notice how this has only started to happen to me with ToA. I never happened on SI (I only got ToA this Monday) and I think even though my computer is half decent it doesnt preform well with ToA coz sometimes when I quit game it just crashs so I have to hit restart button.

 

[Kalid]

Aye, ToA is a little tougher with require higher hardware.

 

[Nomans Land]

Aye, ToA is a little tougher with require higher hardware.

Running on a:

Windows XP
Pent 4 2.66 Ghz
1GB Ram
GF FX 5600 (sucky 1 but it works now coz Mythic fixed the bugs with the game)

What other info is there to give? I forget.

 

[Kalid]

Drivers? Have you updated any drivers while upgrading from SI to TOA?
Have you tried running SI lately? Does the same thing happens then?

 

[Nomans Land]

Yea I updated video drivers the other day but it was happening before that too.

 

[Nomans Land]

The reason I mentioned specs was because I always have WMP playing and it seems to be that every time a new song comes on the mouse goes crazy. Which I thought would have something to do with the memory of comp coz of it loading stuff.

And doesnt suggest playing DAoC without music! Thats death!

 

[Kalid]

Ok that info could have been given a little earlier

So two things springs into my mind, except that listen to radio :

1) Under controlpanel/System/Advanced/Perfomance/Advanced/ Set Processor scheduling to Background service

or

2) Set your DAoC to lower priority or set the WMP higher.
This can be done using Windows Task Manager - rightclick teh process and set the priority.

For techies further tweaks of priority can be creating by modifying the registry. good reading can be found here http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/winnt/tweak.html#QUANTUM

Both solutions will decrease your gameperformance, you need to test which prioriting that works best for your computer.

 

[Nomans Land]

Well it does happen other times to. But it will only last for a few sec at the most, but seems to last around 10-15secs while a is about to end and new 1 come on.

 

[Kalid]

I suspect it's due to applications compete for CPU time or filepage problems.

Very hard to know what's really the issues, unless you start to log what happens in your system .

 

[Nomans Land]

Ok that info could have been given a little earlier

So two things springs into my mind, except that listen to radio :

1) Under controlpanel/System/Advanced/Perfomance/Advanced/ Set Processor scheduling to Background service

or

2) Set your DAoC to lower priority or set the WMP higher.
This can be done using Windows Task Manager - rightclick teh process and set the priority.

For techies further tweaks of priority can be creating by modifying the registry. good reading can be found here http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/winnt/tweak.html#QUANTUM

Both solutions will decrease your gameperformance, you need to test which prioriting that works best for your computer.

Well I did 1 and now the mouse spazs less in DAoC but it takes around 5min to actualy try get something done when I alt tab out .

I hate my computer

 

[Kalid]

Well I did 1 and now the mouse spazs less in DAoC but it takes around 5min to actualy try get something done when I alt tab out .

I hate my computer

It's very strange, since I got a similar hardware configuration as you do, even a little lower...
Are you running alot of otehr applications as well? What driver version are you using? the 5x.xx doesn't impress me at all. Personally I went back to using my old 4x.xx drivers.

 

[Nomans Land]

Only other programs I run at the time are WMP/Sonic Sound Stage and MSN.

Drivers I using is 56.72.

 

[Moriath]

i take a wild stab in the dark that u got loads of spy ware installed on your pc from visiting websites.. and this is wrecking your pc's performance ...

Try running adaware or spybot or some such and see how much crap is actually running while your playing

btw which virus .. or it could be that the av software was refering to spyware stuff

 

[Margaret]

I experienced the very same problem that the original poster had - mouse jittering, causing the character to spin uncontrollably if it happened while in mouselook. It only started occurring after I'd updated to the newest NVIDIA drivers.

Solution? Go back a step, to the next-newest driver version. DAoC runs smooth as silk for me now.

 

[Nomans Land]

Prob : I know what the prob is heh.

Me and my mum have the same logitech mouse and they interfered with each other... So when my mum moved her mouse, mine would move on my screen too. But I got that 1 fixed by having them on different frequencys...

Now the prob is the jerking. I know for a fact this is caused by WMP... Yesterday I was playing and had it up and ofc every time a song changed my mouse get get alot slower and jerk around the place. But later on when I turned WMP off for a few hours it worked perfectly with no problems the whole time!

And I cant live without listening to music... And must be on PC coz I only have like 10 of my own Albums but 1000 songs on comp.

 

[Nomans Land]

i take a wild stab in the dark that u got loads of spy ware installed on your pc from visiting websites.. and this is wrecking your pc's performance ...

Try running adaware or spybot or some such and see how much crap is actually running while your playing

btw which virus .. or it could be that the av software was refering to spyware stuff

Apart from I clean my computer every day of Spyware stuff with Adaware heh

Did a AVG scan the other day and it said it had found and removed something with a similar name to the virus which keeps popping up... But it didnt go away, I left my computer for awhile and sure enough the virus pops again.

It only pops up when I leave my comp afk for some reason :s

 

[Nomans Land]

Ok. Ive found the problem! The new Nvidia drivers I installed were the problem so I rolled back from 56.72 -> 53.03... And now I have the problem that my graphics are messing up alot and when I exiting the game my comp will crash and I gotta reboot.

There has to be a compramise!!!

 

[Nomans Land]

Ok. Ive found the problem! The new Nvidia drivers I installed were the problem so I rolled back from 56.72 -> 53.03... And now I have the problem that my graphics are messing up alot and when I exiting the game my comp will crash and I gotta reboot.

There has to be a compramise!!!

lol this is great... Ok I upgraded back to the 56.72 drivers and now I have no spaz mouse! w00t. And no bad graphics! w00t. But I do still have the problem that when I exit the game I need to restart my comp! Help me!