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Mouse lag on 2001FP
Just bought a couple of these beautiful 2001FP for graphics development and playing games... I love the image quality and brightness... but the mouse lag is absolutely horrible. Now let me qualify that... a casual user would say it feels a little muddy or mushy... but to someone like me who uses graphics applications for 12 hours a day, this is serious and annoying.
My graphics chipset is an nVidia GeForce FX5600, but it also happens on my 5900 at work. Yes, I've installed the latest drivers from nVidia. I'm using a PS/2 mouse, but I tried a USB mouse and had the same bad results.
The lag is also apparent in games, making FPS games impossible to play well anymore. I have a friend who uses the same model monitor and has no lag at all... weird.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
- I'm not sure it's a video card issue, though, because when I drag the corner of windows, the windows scale in realtime.... it's the mouse that lags visibly behind!! So it's not that the video card isn' isn't redrawing fast enough, or that the monitor can't refresh fast enought, it's that the mouse's position is being updated a fraction of a millisecond later than it should, creating the lag effect.I've tried using programs that up the polling rate of the mouse, even to 1000/sec, but it doesn't change a thing.I partially solve the problem by decreasing the hardware acceleration by one notch in the display properties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot dialog, but that can cause the mouse cursor to not appear in some games.
Trucker-tavs
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Posted April 26th, 2006 11:00
Have you found a solution? I have the same problem on my 2405FPWTrucker-tavs
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Posted April 26th, 2006 12:00
Well, I have thought about it. My craphics chipset is a GeForce FX5950 ultra. My computerspecifikation is: Pentium 2.4GHz, 4x256 pc3200 and a asus motherboard. Do you think its enough to upgrade my graphic card?- Before I answer that, first let me state that hardware is FAR from being my expertise, so please don't take my word for it. That being said....I've read several articles (ands sometimes rants) where people state that nVidia's 5xxx series (also called the FX series) had performance issues. Essentially they had high hopes when they made the series, but in retrospect it seems to be considered a "dud".I think there's a good chance that if you get yourself an 6xxx series, or even (gasp) a 7xxx series, that the lag will clear up. But make sure you can justify buying the new video card for other reasons, so that if it doesn't clear up, you don't feel like you've wasted your money.And as I stated in an earlier post on this thread, turning down hardware accelleration one notch did clear up the lag even on my old video card, but it made the cursor blink and sometimes disappear when playing games.Hope that helps!
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Posted February 4th, 2006 14:00