Vista - Selection Rectangle Mouse Lag... Darn

So hmmm... I am experiencing a weird lag in my translucent selection
rectangle when I go to click and drag my mouse on my desktop. I've done a
bit of research and tried the 'untick - retick' solution but it doesn't work
for me. To get a better 'picture' of my pain... my curse... here is the
image of what it looks like:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1...nglelagcz3.jpg

It's some pretty deep lag. And when I turn off translucent rectangle, the
old school selection rectangle flickers when I click and drag on my desktop.
Anyone ever heard of this?

PC Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4Ghz
nVidia 7800GT
320GB
2GB Ram

....darn

Coola wrote:
> So hmmm... I am experiencing a weird lag in my translucent selection
> rectangle when I go to click and drag my mouse on my desktop. I've done a
> bit of research and tried the 'untick - retick' solution but it doesn't work
> for me. To get a better 'picture' of my pain... my curse... here is the
> image of what it looks like:
>
> http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1...nglelagcz3.jpg
>
> It's some pretty deep lag. And when I turn off translucent rectangle, the
> old school selection rectangle flickers when I click and drag on my desktop.
> Anyone ever heard of this?
>
> PC Specs:
> Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4Ghz
> nVidia 7800GT
> 320GB
> 2GB Ram
>
> ...darn

Are you using the latest drivers for that Nvidia card? If not, get them
from www.nvidia.com.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Hi,

Yes I've updated my drivers as frequent as they release new ones. I fear
that I may have updated it too much and my drivers are now cluttered somehow.

"Malke" wrote:

> Coola wrote:
> > So hmmm... I am experiencing a weird lag in my translucent selection
> > rectangle when I go to click and drag my mouse on my desktop. I've done a
> > bit of research and tried the 'untick - retick' solution but it doesn't work
> > for me. To get a better 'picture' of my pain... my curse... here is the
> > image of what it looks like:
> >
> > http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1...nglelagcz3.jpg
> >
> > It's some pretty deep lag. And when I turn off translucent rectangle, the
> > old school selection rectangle flickers when I click and drag on my desktop.
> > Anyone ever heard of this?
> >
> > PC Specs:
> > Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4Ghz
> > nVidia 7800GT
> > 320GB
> > 2GB Ram
> >
> > ...darn
>
> Are you using the latest drivers for that Nvidia card? If not, get them
> from www.nvidia.com.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

I have always gotten the same thing. I think it's a problem with Vista. I think it happens on most PCs.

Nothing else is lagging I take it, if you think your drivers are cluttering your system, delete or rollback all your drivers and then reinstall, see if this helps. seems like a minor issue but I know how when I want my PC in perfect pristine condition I must have it.'
were you always having this issue, did you recently make any changes to your hardware/ install new software

"konimotsinui" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:d318b83725a6de3f929f25bd6f10c81e@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Not on mine

I believe lag could be mitigated by upgrading CPU and GPU to an extreme, but the point is to have adequately optimized performance, and this is not the case for me. Some of my specs:

• Intel Core 2 Duo overclocked near 3 GHz but still healthy, 52 °C max - actually it might only be at 2.4 GHz right now, anyway I don't think CPU is the problem
• Nvidia GTX 280 which I will note is factory overclocked, 74 °C, yes it runs hot, has given me memory and shader clock problems in games (artifacting, loss of image)...in the end it's completely adjustable so I can tune it down if need be, but the point is it's a consumer-grade GPU that can handle most games and graphics applications and I don't think it should be having this sort of driver-OS-interrelated problem since it performs well for everything else, at extremely high temperatures, mind you.
• 2x 1 TB HDD, 49 and 51 °C, respectively (and I don't see what storage has to do with this)
• 8 GB RAM, 800 MHz, pretty hot...not sure, but works well, no leaks, in fact this was a problem with the first set of RAM I put in this mobo. I had to buy new RAM, but this issue is definitely solved now. I have not had a memory-leak induced bluescreen since. This RAM performs well at hot temperatures, albeit a somewhat slow clock.
• Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 - note that this has happened since pre-SP1

No crashing whatsoever after having used Vista for 2-3 years.
I believe I have installed Vista only once, maybe twice.
I have cloned and replaced a HDD with Vista on it once.

In short, I know what I'm doing as far as Windows goes, I was just concerned as to what everyone else has heard about this issue, and if anyone else has experienced it. I believe part of this problem could be that the desktop itself is not GPU-accelerated in any way other than possibly for DreamScene content, but I would hope that a GPU would not be necessary for such a simple transparency effect. I do take into consideration, though, that I have 44" of screen real-estate here, and I can very clearly identify that the lag is cumulative, i.e., the bigger the rectangle, the more lag. Imagine you had several more feet of screen real-estate. This could then be quite a problem for the end-user. One you'd think wouldn't still exist. I know there are hardware requirements for certain bits of this puzzle, but c'mon, it's simple. Fix it Microsoft. (And don't disable my Aero.) In short, I don't think reinstalling drivers is going to fix this.

MY PC IS A CUSTOM BUILD (from scratch). Newegg rules my world.