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ATITool causes controls to lag?

Tagert

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Well, perhaps not lag, but let me explain.

When I'm playing a game, like a source based game (HL2, CSS, etc) or BF2 or other high end game with ATITool running, the controls will randomly freeze and keep doing whatever it was I was doing before they froze. Say like I'm running it'll keep running in that direction. I can still aim with the mouse, but I can't shoot or anything (unless I was shooting when the controls freeze, in which case it keeps shooting). Eventually, after about, say, three seconds, the controls go back to normal and I can play again. However, it keeps re-occuring, maybe...every 30 seconds to one minute. After closing ATITool, the problem goes away.

I got this problem a while ago, but since I'd just updated some hardware I thought it might be something to do with that so after a little fiddling (that didn't fix the problem) I formatted and reinstalled. After the reinstall, all's good :cool:

I installed ATITool 0.25 beta 1(same as I had before the format), off we go, smooth sailing. Then I install the latest (beta 7, I think?) and start up a game, there's the control lag again. I think it might be because I'm installing a newer version of it, I don't know. Still, if I close ATITool, the problem goes away. So, I'm rather stumped.


Anyway, system specs ahoy...

Athlon 64 3500+ (ClawHammer)
Sapphire Radeon X850XT (Latest Catalyst, 5.8)
Creative Audigy 2 ZS (Latest drivers, 2.03.0004)
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI Nforce 4 SLI chipset. (Latest drivers, 6.66)
2gb Corsair XMS-3200C2 (2.5-3-3-6)
WinXP x64 (Updated latest)

So, any ideas?

Oh, yes, and none of this is overclocked at all.
 

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are you using any special mouse/keyboard software? does turning 3d detection off in atitool help?
 

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W1zzard said:
are you using any special mouse/keyboard software? does turning 3d detection off in atitool help?

No, no special mouse and keyboard software. Using an old Microsoft Internet Keyboard (PS2) and a USB Logitech MX500.

Don't have 3d Detection turned on in ATITool.
 
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I'm having the same problems as Tagert.
Symptoms: I press a key and it keeps being pressed for up to 5-6 seconds after I release it.

The keyboard "sticks" randomly when I play Battlefield 2. (Haven't tried any other game.) I first thought it was windows sticky keys that had become enabled for some reason, but they were off.
The second thing I thought was that my cordless keyboard was laggy for some reason, but I got the same lag when I used a plain ps2 keyboard.

Problems disappear when I shut down ATITool.

My system:
ATITool 0.24 (3d detection disabled)

WinXP Professional SP2
AN8 Ultra - Bios 17 - nForce 6.66 driver
AMD64 3500+ - driver 1.2.2.2
HIS Radeon X800XL - driver Catalyst 5.8
TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 4x512
4 x Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA in RAID 0+1
Tagan TG480-U01
Antec Performance One P180 Miditower
NEC 3540A
Audigy2 ZS
 

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Hi,

I have been playing alot of Joint Operations, and experienced the same keyboard lag issue..
I really went so far ,that I installed fresh WinXP to see and eliminate possible reasons.

I did not suspect Atitool until I installed it and *hit*, there the annoying 1-2 sec keyboard lag was again. This occures both with PS/2 and USB keyboard. Disableing Atitool from autostart will do.

Suggestion/Question is that when Atitool is installing it self in "hardware root" as it seems when ya look in windows properties, what machine resourse does it use to eat it from keyboard? IRQ, Memory... I really aint too advanced to imagine that ;)


AMD 64 3200+ Venice w/Zalman CNPS9500 cooler
LanParty UT nf4-D bios rev: N4D704-2BTA
Twinmos 2 x 512 DDR400
Seasonic S12 600W
(+3,3V@30A, +5V@30A, +12V1@18A, +12V2@18A, -12V@0,8A, +5Vsb@2A)
Connect 3D X800 GTO @16p 520/540 Max temp 60C with Zalman
Seagate IDE 80 /Maxtor IDE 40 G
LG GSA 4163 DL
Antec P180 Case with
3x Noiseblocker 120mm case Fans

(Logitech M518 Mouse)
And two diffirend kinds of keyboards, first was MS/ Internet keyboard with PS/2,
Other was Logitech UltraX Media Keyboard with Usb interface

Edit: And yes, using up-to-date version of SetPoint for the mouse

Turning 3D detection off dont help, shutting down the whole proggy ends the lag.
 
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Wow.

Lucky stumble upon for me. I'm having keyboard lag issues also with games like ut2004, cod2 and the like. I'm using the 0.25 beta 14 with 3d detection on, windows xp sp2 and i run logitech's own setpoint software.

I'll try disableing for now and see if I get improved results.
 

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Turned it off and keyboard lag went.

Strange that.
 

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Hmmm, I seem to have a similar problem...
 

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If you disable temperature monitoring in ATi Tool you can continue to use it without any lag :D.

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SEt priority

You dont have to disable temp monitoring for the lag to go away,open the task manager(ctrl+alt+del)then right click atitool.exe under processes and select realtime priority.tada input lag is gone,un fortunatly this has to be done everytime you restart and want to play a game,but if you really want to you can disable the temp monitoring but me personally i like to see the temp of the card.:nutkick:
 
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