Major Problem With Steam

jonyi

<div class="IPBDescription">Please help a fellow gamer out</div> Whenever I play NS combat v3 I get sessions of FPS spikes. ie every 5-7 mins WHENEVER I move my mouse my FPS drop to 5-10 FPS which is not per se lags me but slows my FPS down signifcantly so I can't play normally. However if I walk, strafe or jump around while moving I do NOT get the decrease in FPS. It happens *ONLY* when I move my mouse whether I am standing still or not it still happens. Then after like 2 mins my FPS is PERFECTLY fine and I get no lag at all. I've tried the FPS max command in the console and that did not help. I am not downloading and I even have my AOL AIM closed. What is the problem and what do I need to do to fix it. I have tested this problem by playing counterstrike and it still occurs. (I have joined a sever where my average ping is 10-20 and then after like 15 mins this FPS drop session begins)

Here is a summary of whats wrong:
-FPS drops to 5-10 every 5-7 mins for about 2 mins then goes back to normal.
-Even if I'm nowhere near people (which affects your ping) and I move my mouse it still drops the FPS.
-If I walk or strafe and jump/crouch my FPS does not drop. It ONLY drops when I move my mouse to look.

Windows XP Home, Wireless mouse (this isnt the case) I also installed lastest ver of Direct X v9. I use OpenGL and have no firewall or anything running in the background.

I have no idea why it is happening. Should I close the steam icon in the systray? Why doesn't happen constantly? PLEASE help.

lightning1

Probably stupid ideas, so please flame me if you care to.

Have you tried a different mouse? Wired? Latest drivers?

In game options have you tried different mouse settings?

Soylent_green

Try deleting clientregistry.blob and letting steam rebuild it, can fix all sorts of weird problems.

edit: is it just combat? then ignore below

I had a mouse where signal wires got shorted or something and it would allmost crash with looping sounds for a few seconds at what seemed to be completely random but mostly in games. Naturally I suspected heat or PSU problems but after much looking it turned out to be the mouse and bending the cord I could reproduce the problem at will.

(Why did it happen mostly in games? I like using a low mouse sensitivity and you move the mouse around alot)

Try to swap out the mouse, even if all you can find is a junk or semi-b0rked mouse and see if it makes a difference. Or try and play some non-steam game, does it still happen?(this would of course indicate that the mouse broke somewhere along the line and it's not a steam issue).