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July 23rd, 2005 21:00
Unresponsive Keyboard/Mouse When System Under Stress
Whenever a lot of my system resources are used, like when playing games such as Half-Life 2 and Doom3, my keyboard and mouse tends to become unresponsive. In games, sometimes when I let go of a key or try and press another, it still thinks I'm pressing it and won't register any other keys I press, the mouse also locks up when this occurs. After a few seconds, it's back to normal. It seems as though the more resources are used, the more this happens in succession. Any idea what could be causing this?
My system specs:
Dimension 4600
P4 2.66 Ghz
1536 MB RAM PC2700 (2x256, 2x512)
2x80GB 7200RPM Hard Drives
20x DVD Drive
48x24x48 CD-RW Drive
3.5" Floppy Drive
All-In-Wonder Radeon x800XT 256MB
Sound Blaster Live
Dell Quietkey Keyboard
Dell Optical Scroll Mouse
Anything I'm missing? I think that's it.
I'd appreciate any help as this problem is very annoying.
My system specs:
Dimension 4600
P4 2.66 Ghz
1536 MB RAM PC2700 (2x256, 2x512)
2x80GB 7200RPM Hard Drives
20x DVD Drive
48x24x48 CD-RW Drive
3.5" Floppy Drive
All-In-Wonder Radeon x800XT 256MB
Sound Blaster Live
Dell Quietkey Keyboard
Dell Optical Scroll Mouse
Anything I'm missing? I think that's it.
I'd appreciate any help as this problem is very annoying.
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BetterThanTechS
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July 25th, 2005 11:00
BigBrother
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July 25th, 2005 11:00
BetterThanTechSupport,
You can also try to free up additional CPU resources by reducing the frame rate of the game slightly or by cutting the color resolution to 16-bit color instead of 32 bit color.
Steve
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July 25th, 2005 11:00
BetterThanTechSupport,
What you are describing is a shortage of system resources. To make more system resources available, remove the shortcuts for any unneeded applications which are listed in the Windows Startup folder on the Programs Menu. Also, open MSconfig and uncheck any unneeded applications from the startup tab. In addition, defragging your hard drive will help with this issue because it will help keep the swap file better organized on the hard drive. If you are not using RAID, move the swap file (Windows paging file) to your second hard drive. To keep Windows from constantly having to manage the swap file size, you can set the swap file to a specific size. A general rule when setting the size of the swap file is to make it between 2 and 3 times the amount of your physical RAM. In your case this would be between 3GB and 4.5GB.
Steve