Game Vs Mouse Mouse winning

[Kokopelli]

 
 I just don't get why my mouse keeps freezing up on me so many times during game play.
I have more than enough RAM, the stupid computer is only two yrs old, and the only game I have on it is the Sims2, University, and  Nightlife.( I gave up on OFB due to the broken final exam). I have no hacks( and I wish I had hacks) but the game is on the newer machine, not online.
Can someone much more awsome than me help

[Nova]

Have you tried a different mouse? 

[Kokopelli]

yep and still the same thing.

[Nova]

I found this link..a few suggestions for you

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t11771.html

[Kokopelli]

Thank you Nova
 I got into my game to get my avater picture and so far things are going smooth.
 The mouse is behaving so far

[Nova]

Hope it keeps behaving for ya

[Kokopelli]

Did anyone see the earth shattering kaboom! Well my mouse went crazy...No the game just went into BFBVFS! At least in my custom hood   I give up, something must be way, way wrong somewhere deep within the bowels of the beast...  err game.
I mean how does one explain the out of control behaviour the mouse and /or game was giving me Rapid go here directions for the household at ramdom times and fastgoing I might add, and I could not gain control for a long time.
Stupid game

[Kokopelli]

Oh dear, looks like I'm alone on this one now

[Nova]

Need to pass this on to somebody else now...way out of my league here. 

[Kokopelli]

*sigh*, just deleted the troublesome hood and am starting a new one with the same sims since I am good at cloning. *smacks head* Ug I have to send 8 sims BACK to uni and make sure everyone falls in love with the same ones....
Good thing I enjoy simming a lot

[RainbowTigress]

I was going to say it sounds like your mouse has given up the ghost, but you said you tried a different mouse with the same results.  What kind of mouse are you using, and what brand?  Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling the mouse drivers?  I have a Logitech mouse, and I don't use the Logitech drivers because I can't use the middle mouse button to rotate the view angle.

Also, do you have floppy disks on your computers?  You could get hacks to your non-Internet connected PC that way.  I don't suppose you have them networked together?  Or a CD burner on your Internet PC?  Or maybe you could get a Jump drive or portable USB Flash drive?   

[BlueSoup]

If you can't download hacks, then you probably can't download patches, and that's a VBT (c. Rainbow  )

[Kokopelli]

I was going to say it sounds like your mouse has given up the ghost, but you said you tried a different mouse with the same results.  What kind of mouse are you using, and what brand?  Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling the mouse drivers?  I have a Logitech mouse, and I don't use the Logitech drivers because I can't use the middle mouse button to rotate the view angle.

Truthfully, I don't think the mouse gave up the ghost I think my custom hood did.

Also, do you have floppy disks on your computers?  You could get hacks to your non-Internet connected PC that way.  I don't suppose you have them networked together?  Or a CD burner on your Internet PC?  Or maybe you could get a Jump drive or portable USB Flash drive?  

Old one yes I have a slot for floppies and a cd driver but I can't write anything on it. The new one, no just two cd slots, and plenty of places to put digital camera memory cards in.  Stupid Gateway.
What I wouln't give to have hacks and simPE. Maybe one day after this hunk of junk gives up the ghost, my game will be set free and hacks here I come!

[Avie]

Floppy disks? Did they not become obsolete when Bill Gates became God?

[ElfPuddle]

Avie! I thought you were a Mac-oid! and yet you worship Gates? wow.

[RainbowTigress]

No, they actually still sell floppy disks and floppy disk drives.  They come in handy in a pinch.  I don't have one on my newer computer my brother-in-law and I built, but some utilities require a bootable floppy, so I can't use them.  Fortunately, some will allow you to make a bootable CD, but my mom's old computer won't read certain brands of CD-Rs. 

[Kokopelli]

Floppy disks? Did they not become obsolete when Bill Gates became God?

 
 Bill Gates is GOD? Phfft he wishes! Windows XP showed just how ungodlike he is.

[MistyBlue]

Floppy disks? Did they not become obsolete when Bill Gates became God?

 
 Bill Gates is GOD? Phfft he wishes! Windows XP showed just how ungodlike he is.

And if you've tried the Beta for Windows Vista, you'll definately see how far from God he really is!

[Myth]

If it's a wireless mouse maybe the receiver has fallen off the back of your desk and you haven't noticed.  Or could be covered up by candy wrappers.  Or maybe the connection to the usb on the receiver needs to be jammed in a little better.  Peanut butter works as a great conductor.  (just kidding on that last part)

I know you said you tried a different mouse, but if your "different" mouses are anything like mine, they are the exact same one from the boyfriend's desk area.

[Kokopelli]

Actually Myth, that stupid hood decided to self destruct on me, but that's ok, I have started a new one and boy is this going to be FUN! My mouses are fine.

Wireless mouse eh. That sounds neat and how much is it? (as if I can afford it right now).

[J. M. Pescado]

Wireless mice SUCK. They have unreliable tracking and constantly die. Do not use wireless mice for games. I honestly can't think of why you'd need a wireless mouse for ANYTHING, since if you're too far away from the computer to use a wire, you're too far away to see the screen anyway.

[Kokopelli]

Well, one less wire behind desk,
getting entangled with feet during hours of gameplay,
only to find that after one gets up to eat,
one takes mouse and keyboard to back of desk.
Not to fun for me.

[J. M. Pescado]

You exchange that for dead batteries, bad tracking, and general unreliability. A mouse is not something you want to go wireless on, believe me. The lack of smoothness in wireless mouse tracking is readily apparent once you've had it for a bit, especially for gaming or any other fine manipulation. Wireless mice bad!

[Kokopelli]

In that case I'll stick to what I have, until something breaks that it.

[RainbowTigress]

My brother-in-law loves his wireless mouse and says once you go wireless, you'll never go back.  But I don't think he does a lot of gaming.  Mostly he makes copies of DVDs and videocassettes and burns them to DVD.