Mouse Lag on New System

[djran2002]

I just built my first system and am having a weird problem with the mouse. It will normally work fine, but every now and again (while playing games mostly) it will start to lag behind my movements by a second or so. Normally if I stop moving it, it will catch back up and then work fine for a bit.


The system specs are:
ASUS ATI A86-MVP Motherboard
AMD Athalon 4000+ processor
2 GB Ram (1GB sticks)
ATI Radeon 1600 512MB video card
WD 160GB HD
Sony DRU810 DVD-RW
Displaying on a 19" DVI Gateway LCD monitor

It is almost like the system gets bogged down and it shows up as mouse slowdown to me.

The only major software I am running is:
I-Tunes
Quicken
Norton Systemworks
Games

Any help appreciated!
Thanks,
RJ

 

[meltdown75]

Welcome to the Tech Support forum and Anandtech forums at large

What kind of mouse do you have djran2002? I've seen cordless mice lag due to poor batteries. Is it PS/2 or USB? I might not get a chance to post back in here, but you may want to add these tidbits to your thread. The more info you supply, the better your chances of receiving a response which helps.

Just for kicks, you might want to make sure you have the latest software installed for your pointing device as well.

If you are Alt-Tabbing to desktop while running a game, there is really no guarantee you will have 100% mouse response time unless you go back into the game and exit. This is theory of course, because we all know that multi-tasking should not be a problem. But with all the different games out there, you never really know if you are coming across a game-specific issue or not unless you check the software manufacturer's site. Hope this info helps, best of luck.

 

[djran2002]

It happens with both a USB mouse and Bluetooth mouse (same effect with either piece of equipment).

 

[meltdown75]

Does it happen after a fresh boot, or only while other apps are running?

 

[djran2002]

I will get the slowdown after fresh boots (if I move the mouse around the screen over icons really fast it will slow down after a bit). Also during apps it will start to lag, then if I pause and don't mopve it, it catches up and works for a while.

I was able to watch the CPU usage during one episode (had task manager open) and I was getting like 99% CPU utilization on my norton software during the lag time. I disabled auto protect and antivirus to see if that got rid of the problem, but it still persisted...