Grrr crezy mouse

[Ibis]

sometime, my mouse become crezy and jump all around the sreen. The game crashs and i must reboot

i have the patch 1.01

i play on PC

thanks

[Schrullenhaft]

Do you have this problem only playing CM or does it happen to you when you may be running anything else ?

Unfortunately your symptoms could point to any one of dozens of possible problems. With your cursor "jumping" all over the place it sounds as if your CPU has become too busy to update the cursor on the screen (which is a heavily interrupt-driven process).

Some of the obvious things to do would be to check and see if there is an update to your mouse driver software (assuming that you're not using the default drivers provided by Microsoft from Win9x). The same goes for your video card - see if there are any driver updates for it. And also check any sound driver updates, especially if you're using a PCI sound card.

I'd also suggest closing down any programs that may be running while you're in CM. Close any of the applets that you can from your System Tray (usually by right clicking on the icon and selecting "exit" from the pop-up menu). Disable your antivirus software too (just while you're playing CM). There has been word out that the latest update to Norton Antivirus (late June anti-virus DAT) has caused crashes. And finally shut down all other processes by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del. This will bring up the "Close Program" dialog box. This will list all the running programs and applets (many of which you will not see an icon for anywhere). Close all programs except for "Explorer" and "Systray". You will have to Ctrl-Alt-Del after each attempted closing to get back to the dialog box. You will probably notice that it takes several attempts to close some programs (sometimes up to five attempts). If you recognize any program that is necessary for your sound or video to operate properly you will probably want to leave it running (some software-based sound cards may have an applet running in order to control the audio, etc.).

Another possibility is that this is an overheating problem. If that was the case then you would normally get lockups all the time within a certain amount of time of powering on your computer. Or it may be that a card is overheating, especially a video card. I'd guess that this isn't the case, but it is a possibility.

After all this try to run CM and see if it works for you. If not then you may have a lot of work ahead of you to get it running. If you need further help post some of the details of your configuration (hardware and software) to this thread.