Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Mouse (and keyboard) lag while gaming in vista -> Solution!

Recently I started having a problem with my mouse lagging in games. It's hard to explain, but everytime I started strafing whilest going forward, and moving my mouse, the mouse would stop responding for 1-2 seconds. You can imagine how frustrating this can be. Ofcourse I started searching the internet (and thus google) for answers. Unfortunatly, nobody seems to find an answer, most people just say "its your mouse/graphics drivers" or "reinstall the specific game".But neither of those suggestions help anyone with my problem.
Lucky me (and you if you are reading this): I seem to have found the problem. We all know the UAC of windows vista. Some of us hate it, some of us don't care. I was one of those who didn't really care, though because it's quite annoying to press four buttons everytime you are doing something, I switched it off. Now normally one would think that everything now starts in administrator mode (and it should). But apparantly, there's still a difference... It seems that my games aren't run in administrator mode and that's why there's the mouse lag.
If you just go to the properties of the *.exe of you game and switch on "Run as administrator" in the "Compatibility" tab, then everything works as smooth as ever! Hooray!
If you have this problem and UAC is on with you (or you don't have a clue what UAC for vista is) then just try running the game as administrator in the same fashion I just explained above.
Enjoy fragging pixels again!

21 comments:

  1. worked great thx

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  2. Nice to hear it helped you :-)

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  3. i have the same exact problem but wen i set the hl.exe to run as administraor counter strike 1.6 says the game is currently unavailable please try at another time. ive tried restarting my computer and it still wont work.

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  4. try running steam.exe as administrator, then start counterstrike from there, should do the trick.

    If that didn't do the trik:aAlso make sure you have your propriery mouse driver running as admin.. (might be trickier)

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  5. Had the same issue in Windows 7 and this fixed the problem. Thanks!

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  6. turning of UAC has solved 9 out of 10 issues I've had with vista since migrating from XP

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  7. Happy to hear it helped most of your problems then!

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  8. For god sake, man, you've saved me a lot of nerves! Thanks a lot! Who would've thought about it!

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  9. I have another good solution --> run windows 7 =)

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  10. Didnt work for me.. i run wow.exe but the mouse still stops working(lags)! :(

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  11. I am running games on administrator, mouse still hangs at wierd intervals, game is running but just the mouse still freezes.

    Using Logitech MX, Vista was reinstalled recently and logitech driver installed as per most comments about hanging mouse.

    Not sure what to do except maybe get some C4 and applying to my PC, maybe that will make my frustration go away.. Please help.

    I will monitor this blogg for a bit to see if you reply.

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  12. Hi,

    If my logic from the original post applies. Then you should try and find the *.exe of your mouse driver manager. (you know the application you use to assign functions to your mouse buttons) And make sure that that *.exe is also run as administrator.
    Then if both your games and the manager are run as administrator, I think your lag should dissapear. If not, I'm afraid you might have some totally other problem.

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  13. Thank you i will look for that *.exe file and try it tonight.

    THank again

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  14. Finally! after hours of headaches THIS finally worked, even on windows XP... Thanks a ton

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  15. Awesome! Thanks, man! My system was having the same problem and your solution fixed it for me. This is great! :)

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  16. You sir, are an angel. Thanks so much for this! Now, If I only could solve my weird lag spike problems.... If you think you have an idea, please reply! : )

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  17. Edit to my previous post: It seems that this solution only delays the mouse lag. It was fine for 45 mins or so, but then it started happening again. It is fixed temporarily if I turn off my wireless mouse and turn it back on, but I dont know what to do. Please help! P.S: I have a Windows 7 computer with a Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000.

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  18. worked great thx again

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  19. thank you so much:)))

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  20. Thank you very much, this worked and I am using Windows 7 64bit!

    Champion!

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  21. awww thank you so much it really worked <3 !

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