Keyboard Lags in some games

Well this is my issue.

I have a Logitech MX Duo(ya its kinda old now)

Ive been having problems when playing a few games.

Namely Starwars Battlefront 2 and Path of Neo.

in both games when i press a button the keys lag sometimes. or acts as if im holding the key down even if i tap it.

the best example is when i press a key in battlefront2 when creating a profile sometimes i get aaaa when i type regularly. but the strange thing is sometimes i get a but normally i get aaaaaa.

some other games like FFXI, FEAR, Zoo Tycoon 2, or Sims 2 I have no problems with it.

my mous doesn't really lag only a little in the games with the keyboard problem. but its not as bad as the keyboard.

Ive tried reinstalling my drivers but still isn't working.

anyone know of a fix for this.

#374957

um its your pc not your keyboard....sounds to me like your processsor is having to concentrate on processing the graphics for your games rather than the commands for your keyboard...try puttin the settings down on the game....im a afraid if you have a demanding game this is unavoidable

#375010

You wouldnt happen to have TopDesk would you, i was using that app and it made my KB lag badly. otherwise try to change your RAM latency to 2.5 or 3

#375027

hmm actually i do have topdesk running. ill try and stop that next time.

but if my the game is too demanding for the p then why would fear work but not battlefront2 and path of neo. just seemed odd to me.

double checked the requirements on both games and im over the minimum

#375089

Its probably topdesk, do we have an update as far as your situation?

#375125

hmm actually i do have topdesk running. ill try and stop that next time.

but if my the game is too demanding for the p then why would fear work but not battlefront2 and path of neo. just seemed odd to me.

double checked the requirements on both games and im over the minimum

some games are more demanding than others in different ways....its difficult to explain....in bf2 you find there are more things going on at once than in fear (your in a hugish battlefield with lots of different weapons and things that your computer has to process). One game cannot be the most demanding ever for all cases....theres always some things some pcs have trouble with and other ones dont.... thats why when people review gaming hardware they test a selection of games (im sure you already know all this though).

#375136

Not to be a broken record, but I actually know WHY topdesk does this.

The process itself, is ALWAYS looking for you to press one of the keys to trigger the effect. So in essence, the application is "pinging" your keyboards stream of data, and making it seem like the keyboard is laggin, since your keyboard is always sending the data back. I know it seems odd, but thats what its doing.

#375151

i haven't been able to use my pc for most of the day.

so i haven't been able to test it with topdesk turned off.

also i thought topdesk disabled its self when a fullscreen or direct x app is running.

bu as soon as i can use my pc again ill be able to post updates on my situation.

but in regards to bf2 having larger areas then fear.

the lag happens even when im trying to create a profile.

I don't think it really renders anything else during that time..

#375217

hmmm well then it might not be your cpu....give that topdesk thing a try....i had it for a while and i didnt have any problems with games....although that was quite a while ago so that was when games were not as demanding as they are now

can you post your pc specs?....maybe thatll help

#375236

ya it was topdesk i shut topdesk off and the problem stopped. at least with bf2(haven't tried path of neo yet)

but if your still curious about my pc specs.

athlon XP 3000+

1gig ddr400

ATI radeon 9600 126mb

80gig master

160gig slave(in two partitions)

Samsung cdrw 52x24x52

Sony dvd-rw dual layer

#375366

thats a good selection of computer specs....but one thing you might want to improve is your graphics card....that usually makes a huge difference....lol i have that sony rewriter as well!....i think it is awesome

#375527

well that vid card was a huge improvement from my geforce4 mx one or the voodoo5 i had before that lol

I also have nvidia card but i dunno the specs of it its on my gf's comp in the closet.

not sure what card to get next.. a lot of the newer cards look like they are for the pci express. which i don't have on my computer. ram will prob get updated before the vid card though.

#375650

Actually i just got an ATI radeon 9250 256mb, for 79.99 at comp usa. Standard PCI

#375687

What about cleaning your keyboard? Might be that a piece of pizza - or something worse - is sticking underneath a key and thus is causing the laggy feeling.

#375697

lol would be funny if it were true but i clean my keyboard fairly often since we got a cat and hair is just about everywhere.

plus i rarely let people eat at the computer. especially now since i got a nicer tablet. last thing i need is to see weird grease smudges all over the tablet/keyboard/mouse/monitor from people eating at my desk and touching everything on it.

#375709

Benji: Nice theory, but unfortunately it's incorrect. TopDesk uses the built-in Windows hotkey API, it doesn't constantly "ping" the keyboard.

Here's what actually happens: When you run a fullscreen DirectX game, Windows blows away TopDesks DirectX instance. TopDesk then tries to get it back, but can't, since the fullscreen DirectX game now has control of DirectX. The act of trying to get access to DirectX slows down the computer slighty, hence the keyboard slowdown. Left-clicking on the TopDesk icon will solve the problem: it'll disable TopDesk so it doesn't try and gain access to DirectX.

#380797