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[Biglead]

I have this weird thing that keeps happening to my mouse. I'll be in battle and when I try to move it to the right, it freezes momentarily. During the half second unfreezing my computer makes a sound as if I'm disconnecting and reconnecting my mouse. I was this [ ] close to killing Villz and MWhighlander at the same time when it happened! Can you understand the Magnitude of that screenshot?!?!?

So, can anyone direct me to a solution? Is a new mouse required, maybe my USB port is going bad or maybe there is not enough power to my Rig?

Thanks.

[Sen]

I can only offer a similar experience I had recently.

I was having a huge issue with things constantly dropping/disconnecting/reconnecting. My mouse would start to work for 5 seconds and then refuse to scroll, though all the buttons were still functional. I thought my USB hub was borked. When my External drive was plugged in, it'd drop/reconnect CONSTANTLY [with perpetual sound effects]. I wasn't sure if my ports were underpowered, if something was shorted on the motherboard. . .

What really messed me up was that if I had any device plugged into a USB 3.0 port, MwO would not launch. I'd hit Play, and it'd black screen and never do anything until the device was unplugged. Using all USB 2.0 devices, no issue. Plugging in the device to the 3.0 port AFTER launching the game, it would work fine.

I made two changes to the system. First, I uninstalled and deleted all USB drivers and let windows reinstall stock drivers. Second, I increased my pagefile from 1024 Mb to 4096Mb. I have not had an issue since.

I have a hard time believing it was the drivers because, as stated above, devices worked fine [but caused issues] or randomly didn't work fine [but did after reboot]

Why the size of the pagefile would matter, however, is beyond me. Windows is like that, I guess.

[Tarl Cabot]

Change USB ports. Remove all USB devices except mouse/keyboard.

Uninstall USB drivers (make sure you have learned how to navigate without a mouse then reboot system.

Those are the simple and no-cost checks. Now for the mouse itself. A damaged mouse cord will exhibit this behavior. The first time I experienced this was in, /hmmm, looks around, Everquest. The mouse initialized itself just as I needed to hit my Weapon Shield disc on my ranger...what a wipe...

Anyway, it is something that you may not have really notice if ya surfing or such. Get into the training grounds and start moving the mouse and cord around. The breaks are "usually" at or near the base of the mouse but not all the time. And it never a bad idea to have a backup mouse, at least for testing purposes.

Edited by Tarl Cabot, 12 October 2013 - 07:50 AM.