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Answer» While playing games online, my keyboard seems to be delayed in reacting to what keys I hit. My sound will often repeat over and over when this is happening. I have looked at my task manager and under cpu usage, it is bottoming out when i am having these problems. I can hit the w key to move forward in a game and my guy will not move for a few seconds, then go on forever and I can't make him stop. I am running WinXP SP2, my mobo is a Biostar NF325-A7, 1 gig pc3200 ram, Athlon 3200 64 processor. I have a 600 watt ps, and an ATI 1650 512mg AGP card. I have tried other keyboards, but am afraid it is something a little more over my head than that. All drivers are current. Any help is much appreciated.What Windows version is it?Sorry...can't believe I forgot that one. I'm running WinXP XP3. I did have the same issue before I updated to SP3 also. Thanks again.It may be your video card. How are your computer temps? Have you cleaned it inside, lately? Tried to re-seat video card? Tried it on another computer?PCB Temp on card is 49C. GPU is 60.8C. These are not while playing anything though.....I cleaned the inside of my pc just last week, and I did reset my vid card.Quote GPU is 60.8C. These are not while playing anything though This is rather hot. Athlon 3200 64-bit max. temp is listed at 69-70C, so I can imagine what your temps are while playing. I'm not a hardware guy, but you have some heat issues, which most likely causes problems with your games. I think, you need to take some action right away. Installing extra fan?The most likely cause of these symptoms is network lag. You can reduce network lag by taking a few of the FOLLOWING actions. If you are gaming on a Wireless connection, purchase an ethernet cable and connect your computer to one of the four ethernet ports on the back of your Wireless Router. You will need to then Disable your Wireless connection to ensure that your computer is using the faster and less lossy transmission method. If you are connected to a router through an intermediate device such as a switch or hub, remove the intermediate device by connecting your computer directly to your router. Ensure that your router is not prioritizing packets from another service when bandwidth becomes critical, your router firewall expects packets in the port range of your game, and that your NAT (Network Address Translation) settings on your router are compatible with your game. Ensure that during gameplay, no other bandwidth intensive applications are running on your computer or another computer on the network. These could include file sharing applications, streaming video or audio, other games, and may even include background activity from computers infected with spyware, malware, or viruses. Ensure that your computer and computers on your home network are free of malicious software. Ensure that you are not connecting to the internet through a proxy server, or via any sort of internet anonymity software, and make sure that antivirus suites or security software on your computer are not analyzing network traffic, as this will cause significant delay in game responsiveness. When selecting a game server to connect to, try to either Ping or Traceroute the game server (by going to Start Menu->run->cmd and then typing ping your.game.server (or your game server's ip) or traceroute your.game.server). The Ping and Traceroute COMMANDS will display the AVERAGE packet transmission TIME and loss ratios for a connection from your computer to the server you are targeting, which will give you an indicator of the application's perormance while connected to that server. Tolerable ranges for MMO gaming are a ping average of 1-300 ms, for FPS gaming 1-100 ms, and for RTS gaming 1-600 ms. To find servers which will more than likely meet these requirements, try to select a server which is geographically closer to you than other servers, and try to avoid servers with more players currently connected, as server load may also be an issue. To see which servers are geographically closer to you, google a service called I.P. Geolocator. If you are connected to the internet through a DSL or Dial Up connection, you may simply not have a stable enough connection to play this particular game. Also, some AOL subscribers will have difficulty with gaming due to AOL's network structure. If you are not sure whether or not your connection is stable, you can google a service called Internet Speed Testing, which will check your upload and download capacities empyrically, and tell you your average packet loss statistics. If you are having trouble finding any of the services or processes I mentioned, feel free to reply or PM and I will try to find you a link or more detailed instructions. P.S. Based on the hardware your computer is running, I sincerely doubt that the game is beyond your computer's capacity, but which game or games of yours exhibit this behavior?I wonder what does internet connection have to do with poster's problem, unless there are on-line games.Please read the fourth word of the original post.Oh, I see...my bad. I apologize.Its all good I think I have found the POSSIBLE problem. I downloaded the ATI Tool Tray and have noticed that as my card is heating up, the fan on the card doesn't increase speed to move the heat away. I just manually increased fan speed and it seems to have cured the problem. I know it's probably just a short term fix, and will have to get a new card, but it has prevented the problems. I wouldn't have thought it was my connection....my ping is normally around 60. Thanks for all your responses, as your thoughts led me in the right direction to finding the problem.You may want to just leave the fan at full throttle and shop for a replacement fan in the meantime... I added a new fan to a card around XMas and it's still going strong so i added some life to it...That sounds like a great idea...I didn't know you could just replace a fan on the card. I imagined them being a little more proprietary than that...Thanks for the info!Yep. As long as the mounting holes line up all else you need to check is it should meet or exceed the RPM's of the OEM fan...ball bearing ones work best but are not available in all size formats.

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While playing games online, my keyboard seems to be delayed in reacting to what keys I hit. My sound will often repeat over and over when this is happening. I have looked at my task manager and under cpu usage, it is bottoming out when i am having these problems. I can hit the w key to move forward in a game and my guy will not move for a few seconds, then go on forever and I can't make him stop. I am running WinXP SP2, my mobo is a Biostar NF325-A7, 1 gig pc3200 ram, Athlon 3200 64 processor. I have a 600 watt ps, and an ATI 1650 512mg AGP card. I have tried other keyboards, but am afraid it is something a little more over my head than that. All drivers are current. Any help is much appreciated.What Windows version is it?Sorry...can't believe I forgot that one. I'm running WinXP XP3. I did have the same issue before I updated to SP3 also. Thanks again.It may be your video card.
How are your computer temps? Have you cleaned it inside, lately?
Tried to re-seat video card? Tried it on another computer?PCB Temp on card is 49C. GPU is 60.8C. These are not while playing anything though.....I cleaned the inside of my pc just last week, and I did reset my vid card.Quote

GPU is 60.8C. These are not while playing anything though

This is rather hot. Athlon 3200 64-bit max. temp is listed at 69-70C, so I can imagine what your temps are while playing.
I'm not a hardware guy, but you have some heat issues, which most likely causes problems with your games.
I think, you need to take some action right away.
Installing extra fan?The most likely cause of these symptoms is network lag. You can reduce network lag by taking a few of the FOLLOWING actions.

If you are gaming on a Wireless connection, purchase an ethernet cable and connect your computer to one of the four ethernet ports on the back of your Wireless Router. You will need to then Disable your Wireless connection to ensure that your computer is using the faster and less lossy transmission method.

If you are connected to a router through an intermediate device such as a switch or hub, remove the intermediate device by connecting your computer directly to your router.

Ensure that your router is not prioritizing packets from another service when bandwidth becomes critical, your router firewall expects packets in the port range of your game, and that your NAT (Network Address Translation) settings on your router are compatible with your game.

Ensure that during gameplay, no other bandwidth intensive applications are running on your computer or another computer on the network. These could include file sharing applications, streaming video or audio, other games, and may even include background activity from computers infected with spyware, malware, or viruses. Ensure that your computer and computers on your home network are free of malicious software.

Ensure that you are not connecting to the internet through a proxy server, or via any sort of internet anonymity software, and make sure that antivirus suites or security software on your computer are not analyzing network traffic, as this will cause significant delay in game responsiveness.

When selecting a game server to connect to, try to either Ping or Traceroute the game server (by going to Start Menu->run->cmd and then typing ping your.game.server (or your game server's ip) or traceroute your.game.server). The Ping and Traceroute COMMANDS will display the AVERAGE packet transmission TIME and loss ratios for a connection from your computer to the server you are targeting, which will give you an indicator of the application's perormance while connected to that server. Tolerable ranges for MMO gaming are a ping average of 1-300 ms, for FPS gaming 1-100 ms, and for RTS gaming 1-600 ms. To find servers which will more than likely meet these requirements, try to select a server which is geographically closer to you than other servers, and try to avoid servers with more players currently connected, as server load may also be an issue. To see which servers are geographically closer to you, google a service called I.P. Geolocator.

If you are connected to the internet through a DSL or Dial Up connection, you may simply not have a stable enough connection to play this particular game. Also, some AOL subscribers will have difficulty with gaming due to AOL's network structure. If you are not sure whether or not your connection is stable, you can google a service called Internet Speed Testing, which will check your upload and download capacities empyrically, and tell you your average packet loss statistics.

If you are having trouble finding any of the services or processes I mentioned, feel free to reply or PM and I will try to find you a link or more detailed instructions.

P.S. Based on the hardware your computer is running, I sincerely doubt that the game is beyond your computer's capacity, but which game or games of yours exhibit this behavior?I wonder what does internet connection have to do with poster's problem, unless there are on-line games.Please read the fourth word of the original post.Oh, I see...my bad. I apologize.Its all good I think I have found the POSSIBLE problem. I downloaded the ATI Tool Tray and have noticed that as my card is heating up, the fan on the card doesn't increase speed to move the heat away. I just manually increased fan speed and it seems to have cured the problem. I know it's probably just a short term fix, and will have to get a new card, but it has prevented the problems. I wouldn't have thought it was my connection....my ping is normally around 60. Thanks for all your responses, as your thoughts led me in the right direction to finding the problem.You may want to just leave the fan at full throttle and shop for a replacement fan in the meantime...
I added a new fan to a card around XMas and it's still going strong so i added some life to it...That sounds like a great idea...I didn't know you could just replace a fan on the card. I imagined them being a little more proprietary than that...Thanks for the info!Yep.
As long as the mounting holes line up all else you need to check is it should meet or exceed the RPM's of the OEM fan...ball bearing ones work best but are not available in all size formats.

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