Input Lag while playing games

[mwpeck]

Bump: As said above, disabling fan override seems to have stopped the input lag.

Yours must have been a slightly different promblem than mine, I disabled the temp monitoring and mine worked fine.

 

[VpShockWave]

I finally found a thread relating to my problem -- however mine is somewhat different.

I have a laptop -- a sony VGN-A690 to be precise. It has a PCIE X600 128MB (256MB with turbo-whatcha-ma-call-it enabled).

Anyway I have the exact problem described. My games will randomly stop responding for a few seconds, usually continuing with the last key pressed. However... I do NOT have AtiTool installed anymore. I used to have it installed, and had a minor overclock running while playing games.

Its been months since I've used it. Is it possible it changed something permanently, perhaps? It doesn't sound plausible, but I'm open to suggestions. Its getting EXTREMELY annoying and I can't take it anymore.

 

[mwpeck]

I'm not quite sure exactly how ATITool works so i'm not gonna say theres no way it coulda changed something.

The only thing I would think of doing is reinstalling windows completely. Sorry if i'm not much help but I dunno what else you could do.

You have tried updating all your drivers though, right? If not, start there.

I understand how annoyed you are, I was about to RMA my card for a 2nd time because of this. I literally stopped even attempting to play games till I figured out what was causing it.

As I said, sorry if i'm not much help, the only solution that worked for me was disabling ATITool's temp monitoring, and you said you dont have it installed anymore, so thats kinda outta my area.

Though if it IS software related, a reinstall would work. If you decide to take this route, install all your drivers first, then install the game your playing. And install programs 1 by 1, trying your game between each one to see if you find whats causing it. If a fresh install doesnt fix it(fresh being only your drivers and game(s)) then it sounds like its hardware related.

 

[VpShockWave]

No no... you dont get it. I've completely reformatted since then. 0 traces of atitool still left. Thanks for trying though.

And I can't really RMA it. Its a laptop. 2 years old at that (I have a 3 year warranty on it, but I dont think they would get the problem if I sent it in).

[EDIT]: My bad. Refer to my current thread if you want to respond. I didnt put in this one that I reformatted a couple times.

 

[KennyT772]

more then likly a driver issue unrelated to the video card then.

as far as ive noticed setting force fanspeed fixes the problem. its only when atitool has to jump speeds from one notch to another that the lag happens and it quits once the fan is at that speed. can anyone else verify?

 

[semjonov]

I can also confirm that there is an issue with the fan controll, you need to set it to a fixed value (Or disable it.) to avoid the imput lag.

For my x1900xt:
I use one profile for regular work with 500/600 speed and fan at 35%, about 50-55 degrees.
Then I use a second profile for games, right now I am testing it out but 55% at normal 3d speed seems to work allright, get around 65-75 degrees with that.

 

[stainer711]

I continued having input lag when I set the fan speed to a constant value. I haven't tried shutting down ATI tool after doing so, but I think that this might solve the problem. Why wouldn't setting a dynamic fan control policy and then shutting down ATI tool work the same way? The fan still changes dynamically even if the program gets shut down.

 

[stainer711]

Update: After loading a profile and then playing I was able to rectify the problem completely.

 

[Stinger_PY]

Try disabling only the Temp Monitoring of ATI Tool.
It worked for me... and i'm using the fan control.

 

[Miscelaneous Gamer]

I've had this input lag myself, but it's only been with particular games. Like SWAT4, F.E.A.R. and UT3Demo.
Oblivion has been exempt from this.

ATi tool has been installed, but if thats what you guys think is the problem I'll try your ideas.

Thanks in advance for the ideas.

 

[Miscelaneous Gamer]

Oh, um... a little thing I had noticed with most games... if I continually tap other buttons, I get to play like normal, except for some particular little bits... ever tried to snipe someone while crouching and leaning left and right every .1 seconds? No, I dont think it's all that easy.

I should also note, I was playing BF2 fine before, now it's got this input lag. (Exactly as described)

 

[KennyT772]

Set a static fan speed, and turn off temp monitoring. You can also just close atitool after loading the profile.

 

[Miscelaneous Gamer]

Not ATitool

Close ATitool. It'll end it.

Upon further inspection and trial and error, I have found that by closing ATitool, there was no effect. Input lag continued to remain in effect. Same with closing daemon tools.

However, whilst testing several other self thought ideas, I had noticed that I *can* use the keyboard without input lag occurring, and when just using the mouse, input lag did not occur here either. But when trying to move the mouse whilst pressing a button on the keyboard, (ANY KEY ON THE KEYBOARD!!!! Even if it did nothing in game) input lag occurred.

Also, frame rate remains. no change.
(UT3Demo no bots, 10-15fps with Vehicle CTF, Suspense Map, Hammer pumpin', 1024x768 windowed, world set to 3 and texture set to 4, screen size at 100, v-sync enabled)
(Also, UT3Demo, same but with world set to 1, fps clocks at: 15-20fps [22 when looking at the ground])
(Oh yeah, and Brightness set to 6.)

(frame rate data included for bare pointlessness, also screenshot of UT3Demo for sheer pointlessness too)

Simply, it's not ATitool that's causing my problems.

My Graphics is an ATi Radeon 9800Pro, most likely incompatible, but I'd doubt it too much. I also believe this occurred prior to installing ATitool as well. I first experienced it during SWAT4. I had previously played F.E.A.R. and BF2 without input lag.

Anyone know what else happens to create input lag?