NS Framerate/Mouse Freezing Problems

StarClawsStarClaws Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9974Members
in Tech Support
As a marine or skulk (not comm), everytime I see a skulk, a phase gate, the tactical gamer annoying message (including the ns help that you can turn off), and a couple other things, I have EXTREMELY gitchy motion in my mouse(IE: 1 second of mouse working... 1 second freeze as the skulk is circling around and im shooting at the floor still. Then I can turn again and I pray I get it on him before it freezes again in the next second and hope he doesn't move) It becomes so inefficient that my new tactic is to crouch down when a skulk attacks and shoot at the floor and wiggle the mouse as much as possible hoping that it moves.

I tried turning all graphics settings to performance/low and still no problem. I normally run 100 fps and have no problems as comm and when no one is around. My bunny hopping as alien is generally unharmed. Some marines I see will freeze my mouse at times. And othertimes they don't.

Half-Life 2 mods are not affected. (IE Empires / CS:S)

Specs:
Asus A8V Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
768 MB Ram (Yes its low... but its NS and HL2 runs fine...)
ATI Radeon 1950XT 128
Windows XP
Directx 9.0c

Any other ideas?
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    setting HL to low priority (IIRC) is the solution, go look in the pinned thread, it has that problem there
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  • StarClawsStarClaws Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9974Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1675414:date=Apr 9 2008, 05:58 AM:name=Thansal)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Thansal @ Apr 9 2008, 05:58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1675414"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->setting HL to low priority (IIRC) is the solution, go look in the pinned thread, it has that problem there<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    Can I get some help doing it? because it doesn't fix it. I open natural selection... join server... then ctrl+alt+delete and set hl.exe to low priority. Is that how im supposed to do it?
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  • F4tManMGS2F4tManMGS2 Join Date: 2004-04-10 Member: 27842Members
    I had a similar problem caused by Ventrilo; when people who talk my computer would "lock up" and continue executing whatever actions I was executing before the lockup for about a second. Recording a demo stopped it for me.
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  • StarClawsStarClaws Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9974Members
    Telling me about your ventrilo problem doesn't help mine...
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1675567:date=Apr 10 2008, 05:53 PM:name=StarClaws)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(StarClaws @ Apr 10 2008, 05:53 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1675567"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Can I get some help doing it? because it doesn't fix it. I open natural selection... join server... then ctrl+alt+delete and set hl.exe to low priority. Is that how im supposed to do it?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yes you did it right. The other thing you can try is recording a demo while playing. In console type record some_demo_name .

    Honestly your problem sounds different from the "normal" mouse lag people ask about on the forums. You might want to see if there's a newer version of your mouse driver available.
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  • StarClawsStarClaws Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9974Members
    yeah i couldn't read that forum post suggested on steampowered.com since they wont send me an activation email for my forum account.

    I am not using any mouse drivers so ill try that I guess.
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  • BCSephBCSeph Join Date: 2005-02-24 Member: 42384Members, Constellation
    setting fps to 111 solved mouse problems for me. To do this you need to put "developer 1" in the launch options for NS though.
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  • StarClawsStarClaws Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9974Members
    Okay so installing my mouse drivers did not work.

    I will now try the fps 111... To do the developer 1 ... How do I go about doing that? Games listing of steam... Right click Natural Selection ... Properties... then "???" "developer 1" ? or is the format different?

    And then just do fps_max 111 in console?
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  • StarClawsStarClaws Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9974Members
    okay so fps_max 111 doesnt exactly help but I think it runs better if i actually TURN down fps_max to around 80... ill try other settings tomarrow
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  • ZiGGYZiGGY Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
    had similar problems with USB mouse locking up constantly ingame with an fps over 60, turning off ingame friends menu overlay solved for me.

    thread linketh: <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/forums/index.php?showtopic=103479" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/forums/ind...howtopic=103479</a>
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  • F4tManMGS2F4tManMGS2 Join Date: 2004-04-10 Member: 27842Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1675929:date=Apr 15 2008, 04:42 PM:name=StarClaws)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(StarClaws @ Apr 15 2008, 04:42 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1675929"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Telling me about your ventrilo problem doesn't help mine...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Did you try recording a demo like I suggested? It's worked for other people who experience this problem with causes other than Ventrilo.
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  • ZiGGYZiGGY Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
    disabled antistropic (wtf?) filtering, that worked.
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