So I have been having this "lag" from my input devices for the last several months, and I hadn't been able to accurately diagnose it.
It would just happen randomly, and it would usually happen when I am trying to survive a fire fight, or when I'm just running around.
The symptoms of my problem go like this:
Say for example I am strafing left and right by the middle doors on Dust2 trying to pick off the T Spawn sniper. I will hit "A" and "D" obviously, but sometimes, I'll let go of either of those buttons to stop, and my guy keeps strafing in that direction for another 1 to 2 seconds, depending. When that happens, I will move my mouse to try and regain the input device controls, and nothing happens. My guy just keeps strafing in that direction. If I try to click my mouse to fire my weapon, and I click on it like 3 or 4 times for single shots, my computer gives me the "oh no you didn't just press your buttons while I'm froze/hung up" beeps.
Turns out, I found out, over the course of the last few months, which required the use of my laptop for work, and the fact that I've started to rip my CDs on to the laptop so I can xfer them to my iPod, I had slowly filled up my HD to the point where I only had 6% of free disk space left!!!!
Last night, my computer was acting up especially bad. Xtreme and Bullet can both testify for me. I was like 8-29 on FY. I don't even get that bad when I am playing very badly with a healty, working computer. Playing decently with a bad computer resulted in that. I got so distracted by my computer's problems, plus my frustration on top of it, resulted in me not being able to take aim and hit anything. I was literally just a moving target for people to practice shooting last night.
Today, I have deleted a bunch of files, which netted me a 20% increase in HD space, and I have also defraged my HD (although using the defrager that came with WinXP. That thing sucks. I need to somehow get my O&O one to work again, or get a copy of Perfect Disk like my friend was telling me to), so hopefully, I won't get that problem anymore.
We shall see...
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GrimjowJagerJack @ 2007-10-08 01:09:10
OOOOOOO LOL that neva happened to me why!??! cause i clean my PC nightly XD i have a brother who likes the uhm *nasty* sites of the internet so yea i have no choice once i went just 2 days with no clean and it got so bad even with like 70% left on my gaming drive i was literally lagging LOL i was like zomg and his like 2 hours on the pc gave my pc like supa dupa lag XD and ate up all the memory for my drive C my drive D was fine but C was terrible it took me like 30 minutes to clean it out! lol remember to go to control pannel internet options and clean up your cookies and recently visited sites and clean out temp files etc gg CYA!
