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Chrome mouse lag

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate (without reinstalling, an actual upgrade) and now I'm experiencing some really annoying mouse lag in Chrome. It seems to happen most often when there is a Flash element on the page, though that's not always the case.

I have a Windows Experience base of 7.5 (I just re-ran it), 7.7 in desktop and gaming graphics, and Skyrim still runs fine. I ran an Intel chipset update and re-installed my Catalyst drivers (I uninstalled them first), and I don't have any available Windows Update. I've also re-installed both Chrome and Flash, and I've disabled all of my Chrome extensions. Nothing has helped.

What might be causing this very annoying issue, and what might I do to fix it, short of reformatting?

Thank you.

Second screen video lag in windows 8

I have a (pretty old now) Radeon 4870 which I'm using in my windows 8 box. Its using the WDDM (1.1) drivers.

When I have a full screen app open on my primary monitor anything running on the secondary display lags badly. For example I cant play a game on my primary and watch a video on my secondary monitor. When running a non-fullscreen app on my primary there is no issue with my secondary.

Has anyone else had similar issues with WDDM/windows 8? Is this something that will be fixed by a graphics card upgrade?

Is there a Chrome-like plugin container for Firefox?

This is exact opposite of Is there a Firefox-like plugin container for Chrome.

With my 100+ tabs open in FF, there are two and a half alternatives:

• use plugin-container and get it eat CPU, memory and lag the whole system (dont tell me about BFS)
• turn it off and have browser crashed each time Flash crashes.
• NoScript whitelisting which is annoying.

So it seems reasonable to ask, is there a Firefox modification/branch that has multiprocess/sandbox support ready to run each plugin instance (for a tab) in sandbox? There were a ton of such rumors including http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/06/2147219/sandboxed-flash-player-coming-to-firefox

Why does the mouse lag when screen recording with CamStudio?

When I try to record a screen capture video using CamStudio (portable version), my mouse lags so much that it is practically impossible to do anything. Reducing the size of the region I'm capturing makes it run more smoothly, but still lags very badly every few seconds--enough to be unusable.

This problem occurs exactly the same on Windows 7 and XP

I have no problem whatsoever when I use Microsoft Expression for screen capture, even if I capture the whole screen (but I need it to be portable and to work on multiple OS's)

The only suggestion I was able to find through googling was to turn off Hardware Acceleration. They said to go to Display->Screen Resolution->advanced settings->Troubleshoot->Change Settings to do this, but when I get there, the "Change Settings" button is grayed out.

What should I try next?

solved - Decreasing lagging on router, while gaming

Solution: #1 answer, #3 comment

I had absolutely no idea where to post this question and get a professional answer for it but here goes...

Okay, so I guess everyone whos is reading this had played online, and so I was playing LoL again tonight and my brother decided that now was a great time to go on youtube and start watching a movie, so my ping (connecting from South Africa to EU west server) is around 190-220 average, however it started spiking to 2000 and average was 600-800, so it arised the question, how ther hell can I "kick" him off for the time being

I tried reasoning it out with him but its like playing chess with a pigeon, he's studying to be an engineer, and I just cant win an argument with him, so i need to step it up a level...

I have in the past used the aireplay method by sending deauth packets but it only helped so much, is there another way of either kicking a peer of the local wifi or decreasing the lag spikes while in session or even splitting the bandwidth equally in 2 or 3,etc

What do I do

p.s. sorry if off topic, if it is not appropriate, just say which website will be able to help or assist me...

Windows 10: Keyboard type rate extremely slow after boot

I have upgraded my computer using a core i5 2500K from Windows 7 x64 to WIndows 10 x64, and the whole system runs fast and reliable, with one exception: after booting from SSD, which takes only about 10 seconds, my keyboard is really slow for the first 1 or 2 minutes right after booting. "Slow" means that when I start notepad, and type some characters, it takes a second for each character to appear on screen. Everything else is fast, including mouse movement, starting programs, only keyboard input is that slow. After 1 to 2 minutes, the keyboard suddenly behaves normally again.

This happens with every kind of keyboard I connect, no matter if I use the legacy PS/2 adapter, or USB.

Does anybody have any idea what might be the cause of this strange behaviour?

Latency of WiFi router

My current gaming desktop is connected to router via few meters of class 5 UTP. But I have to move it to another room, and I'm reluctant to drill holes in the wall to get cables trough. Currently I have simple SOHO Wi-Fi G router with only internal antenna. Quick test with laptop showed some 10ms extra latency, but I'm not sure it that's the best Wi-Fi can do. I have few doubts:

• What order of latency would Wi-Fi add in ideal situation (as compared with 100Mb Ethernet)?
• How much does it depend on quality of Wi-Fi router?
• How much does it depend on version of Wi-Fi used (G vs N)?
• How much better do "gaming" routers perform?
• How much better MIMO with 3 antennas will perform?

Windows 8 System.exe writes to HDD like crazy

I have checked Application event logs and found that every second about 20 entries for MSSQL Server were recorded. Removed the server and all its components and the problem is gone... Thanks everyone for tips!

I have a problem with Windows 8: System.exe starts accessing the hard drive and writing/reading like crazy for like 5-10minutes, it does it every 5 minutes and at the time the computer lags like crazy, even mouse and keyboard are unusable... Is there any way to either get rid of this crazy reading/writing? What can I check or do to figure out what is causing it? It is fairly recent problem, started few days ago. I can't think of anything unusual (software or driver updates) done at that time...
In Task Manager I can see SSD activity at 100%, in Resource Monitor I can see System.exe writing/reading sometimes 40-50 files at a time...
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Any help appreciated, this thing drives me nuts...

YouTube is stuttering in chrome on a brand new computer

So I just hooked up a brand new rig with an Asus P9X79 WS board, an i7-4820k chip, 16GB of G.Skill TridentX RAM, Evga GTX 650(soon to be upgraded in the future), and I’ve got one 1TB HDD with 500GB SSD Samsung EVO 840 as the main drive. I installed Windows 8.1 and all of the driver CDs that came with the rig.

Yet when I’ve got Chrome up an running, there is some notable stuttering in various YouTube videos. It usually occurs on its own or when I’m opening, scrolling through links, or even refreshing in any tabs. It is also much more frequent on HD videos. I have already checked the chrome://plugins. The PepperFlash is unchecked and I should be running the Macromedia version. So I’m stumped.

I mean come on, a rig like this shouldn’t have this much trouble playing a YouTube video. Especially when my Lenovo Y410P with Windows 8.1 can play videos flawlessly on chrome.

What baffles me further is this error is non-existent in Internet Explorer. Plays the videos without so much as a complaint unlike Chrome here. I might try some more browsers in the meantime(as IE lacks a youtube re-player extension), but it leaves me distraught that Chrome is having this issue.

Why does QuickTime lag in Firefox if I don't put my mouse over it?

This has happened for me as long as I can remember. Since the first version of Firefox, on multiple computers and under different versions of Windows. QuickTime plays fine in IE and Chrome (even with Firefox in the background), but in Firefox if my mouse is not over the QuickTime window then it will start to studder, then lag and eventually just stop.

• To be honest, I do keep quite a few tabs open, but Firefox stays at 1% CPU (even when QuickTime runs) and I have a few gigs of free RAM.
• It is the same for any resolution of video or audio.
• If the mouse is just one pixel in the client area of the QuickTime then it usually plays fine.
• Other video formats typically play fine.

Does anyone else notice this behavior? Ultimately I would like a fix besides keeping my mouse over the QuickTime window.

Some Portions of Computer Running Slow (Specifically Graphics)

I noticed that a few things are running slow today on my Windows 7 laptop. Specifically, they are:

• Opening and closing windows takes several seconds for the animation to complete.
• Windows media player opens fine, but the movies are very laggy
• MMORPGs are extremely laggy
• When waking my computer from sleep mode, after entering my password, my desktop takes about 3 seconds to fade in

Other than those, everything runs at a normal speed.

Things I've done that maybe contributed to this problem:

• Changed the graphics processor (by plugging in/unplugging the charger) [however, no matter how I change the graphics, I'm still getting this lagginess]
• Installed AdBlock, a Firefox addon [I recently removed it, and I'm still experiencing this problem]
• Went into Advanced System Settings, Clicked Settings, and unchecked a few visual things (such as the animation for opening and closing windows) [sure, this got rid of the opening/closing windows lag, but I like that little animation - plus that leaves all the other lag problems I'm experiencing]

So, does anyone have any ideas/fixes? If so, please respond. Thank you.

Some Other Information:

• I'm on a HP Pavillion dv7 laptop, 4285 Entertainment PC, with: intel CORE i5 inside, ATI Mobility Radeon Premium Graphics, Microsoft DirectX11
• Opening and closing of windows: Defined as opening a program (i.e. Firefox) or closing it by hitting the X in the upper-right hand corner. Lately, the animation for opening and closing windows (which is simply either growing from the icon from the taskbar to fill the screen, or shrinking from the screen down towards the icon on the toolbar.) This problem also occurs for minimizing/maximizing windows.
• Very laggy movies: defined as .avi movie files saved to My Documents which skips several frames per second and seemingly slows down the movie as a whole
• Extremely laggy games: I tried playing an MMORPG today, and movement in the game was at least 10x slower than it ever has been, even when playing on the lowest detail/graphics
• Desktop taking 3 seconds to fade in after sleep: in this scenario, I had no other programs running visibly. The computer generally fades to black from the password screen to the desktop in about 1 second, normally. However, it is now taking 3 or more seconds.

USB mouse pointer lags when external HD is plugged in

So I just discovered the cause of my mouse's "random" lagging. I have a Microsoft 3500 USB mouse and a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500 GB external hard drive. When the former is plugged in, everything is fine. But when both of them are plugged in, the mouse pointer slows down and lags a lot (or jerks).

All my drivers are up to date and I'm on Win 8.

Any possible diagnostics/solutions?

System stuttering caused by hard drive

My system keeps freezing for about 1-2 second every time I try to do something. For example, when I enter URL in browser, it freezes and starts working after few seconds. It is probably related to hard drive. I installed HD tune and when benchmark is in progress, causing constant disk use, everything works fine in background, there are no lags. What can be the reason of this issue?

My hardware is Acer Aspire 7740G-6969 running on Windows 7.

Graphics freeze whenever hard drive is accessed

Any time I'm playing a game (and even sometimes just using desktop programs), whenever the game accesses the hard drive the graphics freeze. Sometimes the audio stutters, most other times it doesn't.

I cannot figure out what's wrong. The games will run fine for a few seconds, but whenever something loads (i.e. I look at something new), the game will freeze for a few moments and then resume at full-force.

This happens at any point with any game, and is not your regular lag. Some games do so whenever a new model is loaded (or, for instance, when a block is broken in minecraft).

How can I go about debugging this issue?

The laptop isn't that old, and has done this ever since it was purchased. I was using the updated drivers for a while, and then tried the beta drivers with no luck. No overclocking is being done.

Specs:

• Alienware M17xr3
• Windows 7 64-bit
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
• Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.20 GHz
• 8 GB Ram

The laptop is an Alienware, so the model number is, of course, nowhere to be seen on the bottom. Model number added to specs.

EDIT: As suggested in the comments, here are the temps during both idle and gaming sessions. It should be noted that whenever the freeze occurs, the GPU usage drops to 0.

CPU Min/Max [core 1,2,3,4] : GPU
(All are in degrees Celsius)

• Idle: 56/61, 60/68, 58/69, 52/61 : 62
• Game 1: 63/76, 66/83, 66/83, 62/81 : 66
• Game 2: 56/79, 61/85, 58/84, 54/81 : 66-67

Something else I should add is that the CPU power drops from around 32 watts to less than 15 (often times down to 7) whenever the freeze occurs - however, the programmer in me thinks that it's a side effect of the program itself due to the freeze and not being able to query the CPU.

Another note is that background music plays without interruption during these freezes; the CPU is still doing something when it freezes. Some of the game's sound effects will loop, but not in a soundcard freeze way.

Why is my mouse lagging?

Don't remember this from earlier, but my mouse is lagging when I refresh specific websites in Chrome and Firefox. I can't observe such lags with Internet Explorer.

Here's a video i made

I tested with AIDA64 and sometimes noticed very little and short lags.

Here's a second video

Any thoughts?

Hardware And Software Information

• DELL Latitude E6420
• Windows 7 64-Bit Enterprise
• 8GB of RAM
• Razer DeathAdder Black Edition mouse
• Firmware: 1.00
• Driver version: 1.02