Flks
12-22-2010, 12:21 PM
Every once in a while keystrokes seem to be detected by TS late, like something, somewhere is busy for a moment and temporarily stops the stream of keystrokes. It usually happens every few minutes and it usually lasts a little under a second, though one time it took so long I nearly died. A few plays ago it happened at the very end of Unforgivable while I was at 100% accuracy. It took me several more plays to get it AAAd again, but it's extremely annoying. At that point I decided to uninstall my keyboard driver (it's now running on the default Windows XP PS/2 driver which I assume to be faster because), kill everything that isn't a service or system process (including explorer and several drivers) and set plugin-container.exe (which runs flash when using firefox) to realtime priority, which helped loads, but it still happens occasionally. I've also been running with task manager on while I'm playing (need to screencut to play properly anyway) to see if there's sporadic CPU activity when it happens, and have even played with sysinternals/process monitor on to check for weird stuff from flash, but have found nothing whatsoever.
I'm using firefox 3.6.8 with flash 10.1.102.64, running windows xp 32. It isn't particularly slow or anything (core 2 quad 2.66 GHz, 4x 1GB RAM and a HD4870 gfx card.) I've already checked for malware (keyloggers in specific) several times using linux-based scanners to increase the chance of finding things like rootkits, but never found a thing. I tend to keep an eye on network activity as well (using a router's activity led, not the flashing icon which can be easily faked) but never even found anything remotely suspicious.
Anyway, I seriously doubt this is a TS bug because TS itself doesn't hang (gfx and sound continue normally). I'm just wondering if it's just my computer or if it happens to more people.
I'm using firefox 3.6.8 with flash 10.1.102.64, running windows xp 32. It isn't particularly slow or anything (core 2 quad 2.66 GHz, 4x 1GB RAM and a HD4870 gfx card.) I've already checked for malware (keyloggers in specific) several times using linux-based scanners to increase the chance of finding things like rootkits, but never found a thing. I tend to keep an eye on network activity as well (using a router's activity led, not the flashing icon which can be easily faked) but never even found anything remotely suspicious.
Anyway, I seriously doubt this is a TS bug because TS itself doesn't hang (gfx and sound continue normally). I'm just wondering if it's just my computer or if it happens to more people.