Odd issues on new Alienware laptop
Some touchpad drivers have features to prevent accidental input (e.g. brushing the touchpad with your hand) while typing. Are you sure you don’t have one of these enabled? It could be assuming your keypresses are an attempt to type and blocking mouse input.
On the last laptop I ran Windows on, the touchpad driver was written so badly its settings affected regular mouse input, too (yes, even the acceleration/sensitivity settings, seriously…)
I’ll have to check out the driver stuff and see…thanks. It just puzzled me since I’m 99% sure this kind of thing didn’t happen on my old laptop, and I got my gf to confirm that her laptop doesn’t have these odd problems, either.
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Oh god…I just noticed now this kind of issue is not only in game ;/ I can’t move cursor on desktop while holding a key either..
EDIT: Oh, and I don’t think adjusting sensitivity changed anything.
EDIT2: Oh wow, scratch that, problem solved!
I found my solution thanks to this page :http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-221821-i-cannot-move-my-mouse-while-typiing
quoting the specific comment for clarity
waheed- Apr 22, 2010 07:46PM
Go to Synaptics Pointing Device Program which you’ll find in your tray, then go the tab named ‘Device Settings,’ then Click the settings box, then expand the + icon called pointing and turn palmcheck all the way down then click ok. It’ll fix it.
However in my case the setting is called TouchCheck.
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Oh god…I just noticed now this kind of issue is not only in game ;/ I can’t move vursoron desktop while holding a key either..
EDIT: Oh, and I don’t think adjusting sensitivity changed anything.
your touchpad has a key detection setting so that while you are typing your mouse cannot be used. you can disable this, or better yet disable the touchpad when an external mouse is present (open in the touchpad control panel).
Laptop: M6600 – 2720QM, AMD HD6970M, 32GB 1600CL9 RAM, Arc100 480GB SSD
Edited my last message since I solved the problem. Funny/odd as it may sound, I generally don’t mind playing using touchpad lol.
Ice Mage, how is the heat from your laptop whilst playing this game? I’d like to know since you’re one of the few that plays on a laptop besides myself.
It seemed a little hot alright when I bumped settings higher and was on Balanced power plan. I haven’t installed a temperature check utility to get accurate values yet (unless there is something preloaded, which I wouldn’t have noticed) but at any rate I think, as people have often suggested, I will invest in a cooling stand for it.