I have a problem in ez-quake where my mouse freezes completely for about half a second or a second, about twice a minute. Now I play Urban Terror all the time with no mouse problems there, so it's definitely an ez-quake issue.

Also, when I type in the console or T chat, often times the text doesn't appear on the screen as fast as I am typing it - it might even lag a couple words behind. I can live with that, but I mention it because I think it could be linked to the mouse input problem.

Anyone have any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

http://wiki.qwdrama.com/Smooth_Quake
sys_highpriority
sys_yieldcpu

i get timeouts and mouse freezes whenever my laptop overheats. but i get them in all games and even when not running any game. if you only get this in qw try to change settings.

sys_yieldcpu 0 seems to have *maybe* fixed the problem

sys_highpriority gave me extreme lag when I tried it

Did you try the value of sys_highpriority -1 also? *notice the minus* Since if shouldn't really lag your computer more atleast.

But it also shouldn't conceivably help since -1 means less priority. But, granted, perhaps my input is lagging because ez-quake is taking too much priority from windows or something... But it doesn't matter since sys_yieldcpu 0 seems to solve it. I'll know more clearly after trying it out some more.

sys_yieldcpu 0 did not solve it. The problem appears to be my binds like:

bind mwheeldown "impuse 3; wait; impulse 4; wait; impulse 5; wait; impulse 6; wait; impulse 7;"

That bind and a couple other similar binds seem to gum up the input on quake and make my mouse input not work for a second once or twice a minute.

I'm going to try to edit the actual mod I play to add a "best weapon" command, which I could then use in place of my lag-causing binds.

why not use

bind wheeldown "impulse 3 4 5 6 7"

?

I tried that and it doesn't seem to work at all. I could try it again and write down exactly what happens, but, basically it would only go to weapon 3 even if i had weapon 7. And then I tried doing it the other way and it would still go to the wrong weapon.

Are you using the latest version of ezQuake?

Come to think of it, no. lol. Guess I should.