[GrimGriz]

I am so unbelievably frustrated right now. A few day ago (after I put in some time off to get some quality gaming time in), my mouse started acting up. Sometimes it was fine and then the cursor would start sticking. I thought it was something with the game I was playing, but after I shut the game down one of those times, the mouse continued to act freaky.

What was happening was if I put my mouse on the right side of the screen and moved it towards the left, the mouse would stick, and then half a second to a second later it would jump to where it would have ended up if it didn't stick. Since it was sticky most in the right to left motion, I thought it might be the mouse.

Of course, I cleaned the laser and the desktop/thing I was using for a mouse pad, and though sometimes it seemed to help it certainly didn't fix the problem. So, I went and I stole my mouse from work and tried it. For the most part, it seemed to fix the problem, though it did jump around from time to time. It never stuck though, and so I was pretty confident the problem had been my old mouse.

So, today I went to Best Buy and bought myself a Razer Lachesis for about 80 bucks and a new mouse pad. Not 15 minutes after install and into the game the sticking problem returned.

The unbelievably frustrating part is that I can't diagnose the problem, and that makes it very hard to make the problem go away. Equally frustrating is that it destroys my gaming experience and I had 3 days off planned this week that I had earmarked for gaming.

I'm at a complete loss. Meanwhile, I'm running Ad-Aware on the off chance that's the problem, and the damn thing won't update.

[quillo]

Sounds like something in your mouse settings :s

Alternatively close any screen grabbing programs like VNC, Synergy, Radmin etc.

[GrimGriz]

Well, I tried my original mouse again and it seems to be working now...meanwhile, if I plug the fancy new one in, the problem reappears. Since the old one is working for the moment, I'm happy. I'll try the new one on the next rig I have built for me