weird fps crawl

ZiGGY

I recently got a new cheap laser mouse for my pc, now learning to play with this thing is hard enough after not playing for donkeys years
BUT I have this weird problem with my fps, on SOME areas of SOME maps my fps will sudden drop from a steady 60-70 to a 5fps nightmare. This also seems to occur when people put their flash light on AOE but it is always the exact same problems on the same maps (metal in particular is a nightmare). I do not seem to have this problem with any other HL mod or even HL itself, I have no problem with any other games either.

Im using fairly modern drivers w/ a GeForce 6200, Athlon 64 3400+, 1gig ram

Though I havent played NS since early 2006 I do not recall ever having this problem.

DarkFrost

Maybe a windows update overwrote your motherboard drivers (I dunno if its even plausable), so make sure your still running manufacturer drivers for the chipset and not microsofts.

Did you get manufacturer drivers for the mouse? Trying with and without, and making sure thats not the issue.
(Untill I got my logitech keyboard, with only the mx610 lazer mouse I had strange occurencies with having microsofts drivers for my keyboard and logitechs for my mouse. Both mouse and keyboard now run from the same control pannel.)

If the 6200 is agp (I dunno if there were pci-e 6200's) making sure both aperture size is correct (different sources will tell you lower or higher is better, I find 128mb as lowest, then half the video cards ram from 256mb upwards works) and PCI-latency isn't too high. Sometimes pci-latency defaults to 255, which could mean your sound device doesn't get enough time, and the system will slow to allow the sound to catch up. (Again, this isn't 100% sure, this is what I pieced together from the countless arguments accross many sources, but it does sound plausable.) I use 64 as a pci latency for my x800.

viper

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Not good.

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Especially not good if it's cheap. Laser mouse technology is not as well refined as standar optical mice, although laser is better and has potential to be the king of mousing in coming years.

Usually for laser mice, you're looking at quite high prices for anything decent (like the Logitech MX series).

I would bet it has something to do with the mouse drivers, but you didn't say if this problem was occuring before or after using the new mouse. Could be a number of things involved. Try updating all your drivers, mainly the mouse drivers, and graphics card drivers.

ZiGGY

well Ill let you buy whatever overpriced mouse you want, thats a discussion for another time.

So ya, I tried using my old mouse and I tried disabling the soundcard entirely, neither of which had any effect on my problem its still the same; Its starting to get quite annoying because it will pretty much prevent me from playing most of this game. Though I can play with 5-10fps its not really a very enjoyable experience <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Im using a K8N4-E motherboard if that gives you any ideas <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />