Questions tagged [lag]
Lag is a term for delay or high latency. It means that the answer for a request is taking more time than expected.
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Why is my computer really slow despite having a considerable amount of free memory?
I have a Lenovo g560 3-4 years old, Intel i5, with 2GB ram and with a Geforce 310M. It always had some issues during startup or when starting a new program, but recently it just went crazy.
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How to fix choppy video with VLC player?
When playing most movies in VLC player, the video feed is choppy while the sound is near perfect. Another catch is that this video issue wasn't always a problem. I used to play movies without problem ...
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USB mouse pointer lags when external HD is plugged in
So I just discovered the cause of my mouse's "random" lagging. I have a Microsoft 3500 USB mouse and a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500 GB external hard drive. When the former is plugged in, everything is ...
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What are possible causes of keyboard lag on my desktop machine?
I am running Windows 7 and began experiencing keyboard lag in most applications, and it seems to be getting worse. Certain websites are the worst - on some, I can type a sentence, take my hands off ...
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Chrome mouse lag
I recently upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate (without reinstalling, an actual upgrade) and now I'm experiencing some really annoying mouse lag in Chrome. It seems to happen most often when there is a ...
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Windows 10: Keyboard type rate extremely slow after boot
I have upgraded my computer using a core i5 2500K from Windows 7 x64 to WIndows 10 x64, and the whole system runs fast and reliable, with one exception: after booting from SSD, which takes only about ...
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Apple Magic Trackpad 3-Finger drop lag
After enabling three-finger dragging for my Trackpad, I notice that it drags well, but when I release there is about 1-2 seconds of lag before it actually drops. I understand this is supposed to be a ...
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Why am I having a severe mouse lag when CPU usage spikes up to %100?
I'm having a very noticeable mouse lag when my CPU usage spikes up to %100 or between %90 and %100, this happens when I open a project in visual studio, or when building a project, or when rendering a ...
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closing windows: ctrl-W vs alt-space C
When closing a window (like notepad or Windows Explorer), I've been realizing that when I do Ctrl-W there will be a short lag but when I do Alt-Space-C there will be no lag.
Does anyone know what ...
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Roommate lagging internet connection by watching videos from Chinese website. Can QoS fix issue?
My roommate is an international student from China and likes to watch Chinese TV shows online using a website based in that region (we're on the U.S. East Coast). But it causes our network's latency ...
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Bluetooth headphones + bluetooth mouse = mouse lag
When I connect my Bluetooth headphones to my laptop (Linux Mint 18), they work fine. Same with my Bluetooth mouse. When both are connected, the mouse jitters and lags.
I'm using this Bluetooth ...
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Clicking/Moving mouse produces beeps, laggy keyboard key presses on pc start [closed]
I can't for the love of god figure this out. When starting my computer, sometimes when I open an application, my computer comes to a halt. These things happen:
-Pressing a button on my mouse produces ...
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Why do I regularily lose my wireless connection?
I use a wireless connection to access the Internet, and lately (since upgrading to ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala) it has started to be a pain in the ***. Every once in a while (loosing count at the end of ...
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YouTube is stuttering in chrome on a brand new computer
So I just hooked up a brand new rig with an Asus P9X79 WS board, an i7-4820k chip, 16GB of G.Skill TridentX RAM, Evga GTX 650(soon to be upgraded in the future), and I’ve got one 1TB HDD with 500GB ...
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Significant OS X lag when listing directories/files
I'm experiencing some significant OS X lag when listing directories/files. I originally thought it was purely an issue with Finder, and not the HD or any other part of OS X, however I have since ...
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Stack-based keyboard delay using Logitech MX3100 keyboard
I've been using a Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3100 keyboard for quite a while. I've never really had any problems, except for the occasional typo.
I noticed however that I tended make the typo "Laod" ...
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Improve mouse input lag over Remote Desktop connection
As the title suggests, how can I improve input latency over a remote desktop connection in certain applications? I use a lot of 3D applications (Blender, Unity, Unreal) that involve clicking and ...
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Graphics freeze whenever hard drive is accessed
Any time I'm playing a game (and even sometimes just using desktop programs), whenever the game accesses the hard drive the graphics freeze. Sometimes the audio stutters, most other times it doesn't.
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Some Portions of Computer Running Slow (Specifically Graphics)
I noticed that a few things are running slow today on my Windows 7 laptop. Specifically, they are:
Opening and closing windows takes several seconds for the animation to complete.
Windows media ...
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Remote Desktop how to frame drop?
When eg. scrolling, remote desktop is very slow because it tries to render every change. Is it possible to ask remote desktop to drop frames when it laggs behind too much, similar to -framedrop in ...
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Windows 8 System.exe writes to HDD like crazy
I have checked Application event logs and found that every second about 20 entries for MSSQL Server were recorded. Removed the server and all its components and the problem is gone... Thanks everyone ...
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Do leds (num lock, caps lock, scroll lock) on keyboard light up before being handled by computer or after?
I'm trying to find a simple method to measure input lag in games and came up with idea of binding some action (shooting from a gun for example) to caps lock and measuring difference between caps lock ...
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Does the size of a monitor impact game performance?
I just build a brand new computer and I am having an issue while playing Minecraft.
The new computer is an Inel i7 3820K with 32GB of RAM and 3 WD Black 1TB drives in a RAID 0 using th e Intel Matrix ...
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Why are all flash videos lagging a lot?
Windows XP - SP3
I'm using both Firefox 3.5.2 and Opera 10 and I have this problem with both.
Flash videos stutter visually a LOT. During the short millisecond stutters the UI of the browser freezes ...
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Microsoft Office 2003 document (Excel and Word), intermitently, takes 30 seconds to load
I am trying to figure out why a simple .XLS EXCEL workbook is taking, randomly, 30 seconds to open.
Before answering:
Please, bear mind the following:
Main symptoms
Using Windows Explorer, here is ...
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System stuttering caused by hard drive
My system keeps freezing for about 1-2 second every time I try to do something. For example, when I enter URL in browser, it freezes and starts working after few seconds. It is probably related to ...
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Why is my mouse lagging?
Don't remember this from earlier, but my mouse is lagging when I refresh specific websites in Chrome and Firefox. I can't observe such lags with Internet Explorer.
Here's a video i made
I tested ...
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Ubuntu lag, everything stuck every 5 seconds
I just installed Ubuntu in my Acer 4820TG yesterday but everything lags. Every 5 seconds (approximately) my mouse & keyboard sticks and the screen blinks and loops.
Here is a video showing the ...
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Latency of WiFi router
My current gaming desktop is connected to router via few meters of class 5 UTP. But I have to move it to another room, and I'm reluctant to drill holes in the wall to get cables trough. Currently I ...
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What are the requirements for using SLI?
I've just got a second graphics-card and I wanted to try SLI.
After I've installed the latest driver for my cards (bother are the exact same model and chip), I was able enable SLI in the Nvidia ...
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Is there a Chrome-like plugin container for Firefox?
This is exact opposite of Is there a Firefox-like plugin container for Chrome.
With my 100+ tabs open in FF, there are two and a half alternatives:
use plugin-container and get it eat CPU, memory ...
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Thunderbird lagging for a few seconds after certain actions (but not freezing)
I am using Thunderbird since a long time and never had real problems with it. This recently changed on one of my PCs (Windows 10 x64 Enterprise, Thunderbird 60.9.0 32 bit).
On this PC, Thunderbird ...
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Synergy choppiness: Is my wireless router delaying packets after silent period?
I am sharing keyboard and mouse between my Linux desktop and MacBook Air using Synergy. There is a very noticeable lag every time I begin moving my mouse (or start typing), but everything becomes ...
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Why does QuickTime lag in Firefox if I don't put my mouse over it?
This has happened for me as long as I can remember. Since the first version of Firefox, on multiple computers and under different versions of Windows. QuickTime plays fine in IE and Chrome (even ...
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Mouse lag/stutter playing games in Windows 10
Since I got this computer:
i5 7600K 3.80Ghz
16 RAM Single channel 1069 Mhz
STRIX Z270E mobo
PG348Q Monitor
GTX 1080 Zotac
500 GB SSD Western Digital
I haven't been able to play smooth any games with ...
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A kinetic mouse lag when connecting to a TV via HDMI
I've been unable to find out what is causing a mouse cursor lag when I'm using my Win7 laptop connected to a 1080p TV via HDMI.
The symptom can be described as the cursor feeling 'heavy'. When I'm ...
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solved - Decreasing lagging on router, while gaming
Solution: #1 answer, #3 comment
I had absolutely no idea where to post this question and get a professional answer for it but here goes...
Okay, so I guess everyone whos is reading this had played ...
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unresponsive system when running io heavy operation
I have a HP Pavilion Elite e9105f running Ubuntu 11.10 Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64 with unmodified core system. When I try to run some io heavy command such us dmg2img, cp -r, the system becomes ...
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Windows 7 Basic Theme "frame lag" of some kind
I have been having a problem with my computer(laptop) when using the Windows 7 Ultimate Basic Theme.
The problem I'm having is that, whenever this theme is active, and I move one window over another, ...
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GPU usage drops causing FPS drop spike
I've been experiencing some stuttering/micro freezes while playing a certain videogame, BF4 to be precise. When running at different video qualities, ranging from low to ultra, the game scores 60fps ...
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Why does the mouse lag when screen recording with CamStudio?
When I try to record a screen capture video using CamStudio (portable version), my mouse lags so much that it is practically impossible to do anything. Reducing the size of the region I'm capturing ...
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Second screen video lag in windows 8
I have a (pretty old now) Radeon 4870 which I'm using in my windows 8 box. Its using the WDDM (1.1) drivers.
When I have a full screen app open on my primary monitor anything running on the secondary ...
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How to diagnose which driver or program cause stuttering in Windows 10?
My Windows 10 system experiencing regular lags and stuttering, approximately once per minute. This is especially noticeable when I'm watching video. Strangely, this problem disappears when GPU-heavy ...
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Brand new rig experiencing terrible fps lag in games. Tried everything I can think of to fix it
I have an entirely new computer SPECS HERE (except for the ram which is ~5 years old) that has been running great.
Today however, every game I play has been experiencing lag that makes them nearly ...
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svchost causing problems
Lately I've had one particular svchost.exe instance that's often spiking up and taking 12-40% of my CPU. The services it's hosting are:
FDResPub (Function Discovery Resource Publication)
FontCache (...
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USB lag when mouse cursor changes
Please, do not consider this question as a duplicate of this one -- it’s not an Intel graphics problem in my case and the issue is a bit different.
I’ve got a new PC with Windows 10 and experiencing ...
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WLAN media streaming mode for Linux to stop ping spikes?
After hours of trying to fix my router ping spike problem I found a thread on Tom's Hardware. Last answers directed me to this Windows program called WLAN Optimizer:
http://www.martin-majowski.de/...
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Windows 7 Lagging with multiple disks
I have an EVGA SR2 build with two Intel Xeon X5680, 48GB ram OCZ Reaper HPC Series at 1600 MHz running on Windows 7 x64 Proffesional. My bootable hard drive is an OCZ Vertex II 120GB and I have an ...
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Computer Lags When Playing Loud Music/Sound?
Is it normal for a computer to lag when sound on a video gets too loud, or when playing music loudly? I have a laptop running vista, 2GB Memory, 512 MB video card, 128 MB integrated sound card. Would ...
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My laptop takes ages to startup, after recent format. Whats up?
After a boot sector crash, I formatted my hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 from scratch.
Although my laptop now takes ages to startup (about 10-15mins!) and after I'm logged in, everything lags!
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