Windows 8 mouse latency and low frame rates

[BrightCandle]

I have had a few difficulties with windows 8. I first had difficulties with surround resolutions which I mostly put on nvidias drivers. Then I had some update issues and some crashes but it mostly worked.

Today I finally hit in the end of my patience as it appears windows 8 has quite a bit of latency/low fps problems. Initially everything is OK but as you add more apps to the tqskbar it gets slower and slower until the mouse is noticeably hopping across the screen. Removing the icons doesn't work.

This problem comes at a time when it won't let me activate after a motherboards failure forced a reinstall and was further compounded with updates failing to apply and waiting 30 minutes for it to rollback. Every shutdown would require the install of this broken update and a rollback.

There is only so much I could take. Its gone, I regressed back to windows 7. I wasn't that irritated with the GUI changes, but its really unreliable and buggy.

 

[Mem]

I have had a few difficulties with windows 8. I first had difficulties with surround resolutions which I mostly put on nvidias drivers. Then I had some update issues and some crashes but it mostly worked.

Today I finally hit in the end of my patience as it appears windows 8 has quite a bit of latency/low fps problems. Initially everything is OK but as you add more apps to the tqskbar it gets slower and slower until the mouse is noticeably hopping across the screen. Removing the icons doesn't work.

This problem comes at a time when it won't let me activate after a motherboards failure forced a reinstall and was further compounded with updates failing to apply and waiting 30 minutes for it to rollback. Every shutdown would require the install of this broken update and a rollback.

There is only so much I could take. Its gone, I regressed back to windows 7. I wasn't that irritated with the GUI changes, but its really unreliable and buggy.

So you never found the real cause which is a shame,probably anything from drivers/virus to software causing the issue,personally I have been gaming all day on Win8 today,( had it installed since last October)and it has just been solid with all my games,USB mouse smooth as silk in my online gaming ,taskbar shortcuts etc,infact its solid on three of my Win8 PCs.

I can can guarantee you it was probably something else that caused the issue and not Win8,never had any OS(Win95,98,XP,2K,Vista,Win7 or Win8) that was the cause of any issue like that , it was always either software or hardware in my experience.
Was this an upgrade or clean install of Win8?.
Always easy to blame OS when you don't really not know the real cause ,changing OS is a quick fix but does not really tell you what the cause was.

Let me turn this around why have I three Win8 PCs all with different hardware and drivers(ie Nvidia,Intel,AMD) working smooth as silk(all fully updated etc..).

I wasn't that irritated with the GUI changes, but its really unreliable and buggy.

Plenty of others have reliable working Win8 OS so saying OS is unreliable is not really true(yes you have issues but unknown cause),as for buggy well no more then any other Microsoft OS you can name,no OS is perfect,that's why have you have Windows Updates and Service Packs etc...even drivers get updated.

 

[BrightCandle]

I never got to the bottom of the upgrade issues but I did get to the bottom of the mouse latency.

There is a (quite serious) bug on NVidia's hardware where if you have SLI and a 60hz and 120hz monitor at the same time then everything performs really poorly. You can make it better and worse depending on how you set the SLI up, which is the primary monitor and what refresh rates you use. The problem occurs in Windows 7 and Windows 8 but seeing as how I am happily back in W7, worked out what was causing it and couldn't get 8 to activate or install its updates I had finally had enough anyway.

Honestly it takes a lot to get me off the latest and Windows 8 had done enough, its just not a good interface and there are a lot of other niggling problems. Good riddance at this point.

Now I just need to wait for NVidia to fix their broken drivers so I can use my second monitor.

 

[Mem]

I never got to the bottom of the upgrade issues but I did get to the bottom of the mouse latency.

There is a (quite serious) bug on NVidia's hardware where if you have SLI and a 60hz and 120hz monitor at the same time then everything performs really poorly. You can make it better and worse depending on how you set the SLI up, which is the primary monitor and what refresh rates you use. The problem occurs in Windows 7 and Windows 8 but seeing as how I am happily back in W7, worked out what was causing it and couldn't get 8 to activate or install its updates I had finally had enough anyway.

Honestly it takes a lot to get me off the latest and Windows 8 had done enough, its just not a good interface and there are a lot of other niggling problems. Good riddance at this point.

Now I just need to wait for NVidia to fix their broken drivers so I can use my second monitor.

If you had a upgrade Win8 key and did a fresh clean install then you would have to do this trick to get it to activate,http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-used-to/1726d238-98fb-4634-a468-04645a8ee097 .

1. Run the registry editor (regedit)
2. Find the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE
3. Change the value for 'MediaBootInstall' from 1 to 0
4. Open an elevated command prompt (run as admin)
5. Run the following command: slmgr -rearm
6. Reboot