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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: shockgirl on January 05, 2009, 10:45:58 AM

Title: Sluggish Mouse
Post by: shockgirl on January 05, 2009, 10:45:58 AM

The problem is my sister's mouse has sluggish movement, but it only moves like that when I'm playing most games like MMOs or some hidden object games. I tried cleaning it and changing the settings, but I'm still having the same problem. BTW, the mouse is not optical.

• Operating system: Windows XP Pro SP3
  
• Computer make:Emachines
  
  • i think it's 254mb RAM
    
  • CPU: 1.80GHz
    
    
    
    
    
                             

Title: Re: Sluggish Mouse
Post by: DaveLembke on January 05, 2009, 12:22:48 PM

I'd remove the track ball from the mouse and look at teh 2 wheels that the ball ride on...is there grime on the wheels. If so remove grime with q-tip and then clean ball, and when ball is dry place back into mouse and lock the quarter turn ball retaining plate and see if that helps.

If it doesnt help, buy a new mouse an optical is better and you might have trouble finding a ball mouse anyways.

If that is still an issue then are you eating up all the bandwidth on the USB port, such as is your internet connected via USB instead of Ethernet in which you have a saturated USB channel.

Title: Re: Sluggish Mouse
Post by: Broni on January 05, 2009, 12:24:16 PM

Your most likely problem:

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i think it's 254mb RAM

That would be 256MB.
XP, especially, if you're gaming, needs at least 512MB of RAM (1GB preferable)

Title: Re: Sluggish Mouse
Post by: Kurtiskain on January 05, 2009, 02:24:59 PM

254MB ram would make sense if it was using 2MB for graphics but that would be almost un-useable for games.