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Game movement in XP vs Win2k

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vash

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Installed WinXP pro this weekend to find it needs to go back to where I bought it!

The desktop applications work just fine, but when I am trying to game, I have a "laggy" response to all input (mouse and keyboard). Games that I tried were Operation Flashpoint, Quake3 and Half-Life (mainly Counter-Strike). Quake3 and Half-Life showed the most problems with laggy input and I could not find any fix for it.

With my Logitech dual optical mouse (and USB non dual optical), Half-Life and Quake3 did not recognize very small movement, AND it took more mouse movement than usual to "register" the mouse even moving at all. Keyboard was similar. In Counter-Strike, I have a habit of strafing left to right very quickly. With XP, I could not do this movement at all (strafing left then right quickly would result in a strafe left for about a second, then stopping vs strafing right).

I know its not a mouse acceleration feature, since I turned off that feature AND installed Logitech's drivers to make sure I could turn off that acceleration as well.

My system is an XP1800, with a DFI AK76SN motherboard (AMD760+ VIA 686B). With XP, I installed it and ran the updates from Windows Update (updates for processor, video, keyboard and mouse were found).

vash
 
I suggest upgrading video drivers before giving up on the OS. Had this solve a friend's identical issue just the other day.

And ensure your games are using hardware accelleration, not software rendering.

Try DXDiag to ensure your video accelleration is working properly.
 


<< I suggest upgrading video drivers before giving up on the OS. Had this solve a friend's identical issue just the other day.

And ensure your games are using hardware accelleration, not software rendering.

Try DXDiag to ensure your video accelleration is working properly. >>

I'm basically using all the out of the box drivers and updates that XP has for my box. Win2k ran like a champ (after I installed all the drivers for my HW), but XP is just so unresponsive to quick input that Win2k allowed. I have the latest DX8.1, latest video, etc, but all from MS Updates. Initially, I installed the updates from manufacturers (video, VIA 4-in-1, etc), but reinstalled with just the basics to find its still having a problem.

Bump^

Gotta know someone here that has this problem and fixed it. I posted it on Microsoft's usenet groups and no one has responded --I'll keep up with that until I get an answer.

vash
 
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