Mouse Flickering/lag problem
SgtConti
Join Date: 2013-07-22 Member: 186288Members
Join Date: 2013-07-22 Member: 186288Members
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Do me a favor, from the menu enter the console (~ key) and type profile.
Bunch of crazy things are going to happen on screen now its OK.. I'll give instructions on how to use this if we have to BUT you should be able to move the mouse and see some reaction on screen.. Press the f12 key to take a screen shot while doing this.
Upload the screen shot and the zip file made from your techsupport.exe (found in your ns2 directory)
Thanks
Edit : should you feel up to the task, here are detailed instructions on how to use the profile command.. But you may not need it if you are able to reproduce this lag /flicker every frame by moving your mouse
The spikes are from when i moved my mouse. Luckily i got a screenshot right in that millisecond when i moved the mouse and the Yellow Game bar got almost full.
I would suggest you revert to a previous OS like Windows 7 or 8 and see if you still have this issue, as I suspect it's a driver compatibility problem.
And yes, i use the AMD optimized drivers for 8.1 .
Disable all mods from within NS2 first, and unsubscribe from any in your Mods list.
Then.....
Delete NS2 from Steam. Then do a manual NS2 Cleanup (this is not done when Steam deletes NS2 from your Library) like follows:
1) Delete NS2 from Steam the normal way.
2) Go to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming and Delete the 'Natural Selection 2' folder.
3) Go to your SteamApps\common Directory and make sure you delete 'natural selection 2'
4) Restart your PC (to be on the safe side)
5) Reinstall NS2 fresh from a new download.
Try those steps and report back.
Why cant it just work?!
I would say you have an driver problem.
If the mouse flicker, this could be an overlay issue.
Do you play fullscreen or window-fullscreen. Just try to switch between these modes.
Also try to reinstall the graphic-driver.
Go into the Hardwaremanager, delete the grapics card (dont delete the installed drivers) and let windwos detect the card again.
This is like an reset for the driver.
Maybe same procedure help with the mouse if you use the windows-standard drivers.
Still dont work.
Did you reinstall graphic and/or mouse i mentioned above?
Did you test another usb-port?
Maybe no usb3 one?
ATI is known for horrible drivers, maybe the win8 drivers are in beta state?
Try this drivers: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalystWIN8-1PreviewDriver.aspx
What mouse are you using?
You have an gamerkeyboard, im sure you use an gamemouse.
Try to install the mousedrivers comes with the mouse.
If you use an high polling rate for the mouse, try to reduce it.
Btw, if you use different win8 versions but using the same drivers and of these drivers has issues with NS2 you would have the issues in both Windows versions for sure.
try
r_sync 2
i_rawinput true
i_accel 0
if that did nothing to help .. type
r_sync
in console to reset it back to unlimited
The mouse driver /software will typically have this option. If not, download setpoint software etc to force it.
There seems to be plenty of similar symptoms out there with DPI being set too high for certain hardware. (possibly cpu or bios settings could impact it, idk)
I was also running windows 8.1 preview and after reinstalling windows 8.0 the problem no longer persists.
also noting my razor mouse polling rate is set to 1000hz and dpi set at 1500.
@Balmark, i tried that, didnt helped
@IronHorse, lowered it down, but no change, only the mouse was much slower.
@bread i tested it (dual-boot, 8.1 and 8.0), but it didnt changed anything.
For everyone that wanna know, i use Sharkoon Fireglider.
As we dont know your hardware and your issue isnt an mass phenomen, there must be somthing wrong with your computer/drivers/OS.
And again:
If both of your windows versions based on the same drivers, you would have the same issues if ns2 had problems with one of those drivers.
Try changing that first
Ok then so the obvious next step is to not use 8.1 beta drivers. To ensure that 8.0 is using 8.0 drivers and not beta. Since someone else with the same symptoms fixed it in a similar manner.
Then try any other mouse, to further isolate the issue.
I de-installed those very clean, and installed the normal windows 8 ones.
And how the ... should i have known that these drivers would work?
Well, 8.1 for 8.1 = BAD, 8.0 for 8.1 = GOOD. Wheres the logic in this ???
Glad you got it sorted
As I said to you before, welcome to PC Development
Glad it's working for you. Especially happy it's not NS2's fault.