Selection Rectangle Mouse Lag... Darn

So hmmm... I am experiencing a weird lag in my translucent selection
rectangle when I go to click and drag my mouse on my desktop. I've done a
bit of research and tried the 'untick - retick' solution but it doesn't work
for me. To get a better 'picture' of my pain... my curse... here is the
image of what it looks like:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1381/bluevistarectanglelagcz3.jpg

It's some pretty deep lag. And when I turn off translucent rectangle, the
old school selection rectangle flickers when I click and drag on my desktop.
Anyone ever heard of this?

PC Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4Ghz
nVidia 7800GT
320GB
2GB Ram

....darn

 

Are you using the latest drivers for that Nvidia card? If not, get them
from www.nvidia.com.


Malke

 

Hi,

Yes I've updated my drivers as frequent as they release new ones. I fear
that I may have updated it too much and my drivers are now cluttered somehow.

 

I have always gotten the same thing. I think it's a problem with Vista
I think it happens on most PCs

 

Nothing else is lagging I take it, if you think your drivers ar
cluttering your system, delete or rollback all your drivers and the
reinstall, see if this helps. seems like a minor issue but I know ho
when I want my PC in perfect pristine condition I must have it.
were you always having this issue, did you recently make any changes t
your hardware/ install new softwar

 

Not on mine

 

If so, why aren't there more than the one poster who started that
FEBRUARY 2007 thread, doofus?

 

I believe lag could be mitigated by upgrading CPU and GPU to an extreme
but the point is to have adequately optimized performance, and this i
not the case for me. Some of my specs

• Intel Core 2 Duo overclocked near 3 GHz but still healthy, 5
°C max - actually it might only be at 2.4 GHz right now, anyway I don'
think CPU is the proble
• Nvidia GTX 280 which I will note is factory overclocked, 74 °C
yes it runs hot, has given me memory and shader clock problems in game
(artifacting, loss of image)...in the end it's completely adjustable s
I can tune it down if need be, but the point is it's a consumer-grad
GPU that can handle most games and graphics applications and I don'
think it should be having this sort of driver-OS-interrelated proble
since it performs well for everything else, at extremely hig
temperatures, mind you
• 2x 1 TB HDD, 49 and 51 °C, respectively (and I don't see wha
storage has to do with this
• 8 GB RAM, 800 MHz, pretty hot...not sure, but works well, n
leaks, in fact this was a problem with the first set of RAM I put i
this mobo. I had to buy new RAM, but this issue is definitely solve
now. I have not had a memory-leak induced bluescreen since. This RA
performs well at hot temperatures, albeit a somewhat slow clock
• Vista Ultimate x64 SP2 - note that this has happened sinc
pre-SP

No crashing whatsoever after having used Vista for 2-3 years
I believe I have installed Vista only once, maybe twice
I have cloned and replaced a HDD with Vista on it once

In short, I know what I'm doing as far as Windows goes, I was jus
concerned as to what everyone else has heard about this issue, and i
anyone else has experienced it. I believe part of this problem could b
that the desktop itself is not GPU-accelerated in any way other tha
possibly for DreamScene content, but I would hope that a GPU would no
be necessary for such a simple transparency effect. I do take int
consideration, though, that I have 44" of screen real-estate here, and
can very clearly identify that the lag is cumulative, i.e., the bigge
*the rectangle, the more lag*. Imagine you had -several- feet of scree
real-estate. This could then be quite a problem for the end-user. On
you'd think wouldn't still exist

MY PC IS A CUSTOM BUILD (from scratch). Newegg rules my world