Talk to me about Keystroke Lag

[Peanut]

Really bad keystroke lag for me when I'm on posting CP, and I experience it often on other websites (gmail, etc.) as well. I did a quick google and didn't find any quick answers... so do the tech gurus of CP have any advice/suggestions? How do I get rid of the annoying lag?

I'm using Internet Explorer 8 if that makes any difference.

[HOOT]

Internet Explorer hates baby Jesus.

Try Firefox or another application and see if you get the same result.

[photon]

Or you can try turning off the WYSIWYG interface under your UserCP, Edit Options, down at the bottom. Doesn't work as well, but turns off a lot of Javascript which on a slow PC might be causing the lag as well.

[Hack&Lube]

I had to turn off the WYSIWYG, it was really terrible for whenever I typed and it kept added extra line breaks and returns.

[Resolute 14]

If it happens on a lot of sites, I would lean towards something eating memory and CPU like mad. Is your antivirus scanner running a lot? You could try another browser as well, though both IE and FireFox are prone to memory leaks from time to time.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

If it happens on a lot of sites, I would lean towards something eating memory and CPU like mad. Is your antivirus scanner running a lot? You could try another browser as well, though both IE and FireFox are prone to memory leaks from time to time.

I think this is the most probable cause.

Are you running multiple things while using CP? Facebook and a few other browser tabs, with iTunes playing the latest soothing baby music? If this is the case, you can either cut down on your multitasking, or upgrade your RAM.

Look at your system tray (bottom right corner). How many icons are there when you expand it? More than 5 and you probably can eliminate things running to make your computer faster.


Also, could be malware eatting system resources, run a scan of Malware Bytes and see what it brings up.

There are other autostart services that are probably running that you don't need. Things like Adobe Reader speed loader, iTunes Helper, the crappy bloatware 'utilities' that your computer manufaturer installed on your system that have never been used but run in the background all the time. These are trickier to determine, but if the other options don't seem to be helping then we can see about them.

[Bobblehead]

Does IE8 have a dictionary that may be spell checking as you type?



Edit: It doesn't look like IE8 has a spell checker by default, so probably not the issue.

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I think this is the most probable cause.

Are you running multiple things while using CP? Facebook and a few other browser tabs, with iTunes playing the latest soothing baby music? If this is the case, you can either cut down on your multitasking, or upgrade your RAM.

Look at your system tray (bottom right corner). How many icons are there when you expand it? More than 5 and you probably can eliminate things running to make your computer faster.


Also, could be malware eatting system resources, run a scan of Malware Bytes and see what it brings up.

There are other autostart services that are probably running that you don't need. Things like Adobe Reader speed loader, iTunes Helper, the crappy bloatware 'utilities' that your computer manufaturer installed on your system that have never been used but run in the background all the time. These are trickier to determine, but if the other options don't seem to be helping then we can see about them.

Cut down on multi-tasking?! Nooooo!!

I will try the malware thing. Also my system tray has about 15 icons... I will investigate.

I did the WSIYW... change and it seems to have helped for CP. But I still am experiencing a bit of lag here and quite a bit at other sites so I'll take these next steps.

Thanks for all the advice, guys!

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Cut down on multi-tasking?! Nooooo!!

I will try the malware thing. Also my system tray has about 15 icons... I will investigate.

I did the WSIYW... change and it seems to have helped for CP. But I still am experiencing a bit of lag here and quite a bit at other sites so I'll take these next steps.

Thanks for all the advice, guys!

It's not stuff running in the background - if your system was running that slowly due to active apps, you'd be seeing input lag everywhere.

It sounds more to me like a bad IE add-on, or a page or tab that you have open have a javascript element on it that is not executing properly under IE8.

You should be able to run IE without any addon's from a shortcut on the start menu - I think it's buried under System Tools somewhere.

[photon]

If your right click on your task bar (somewhere where there isn't a program or an icon), you should get a "Start Task Manager" or something similar.. in there there should be a tab to tell you how much CPU each process is using, and you can click on the CPU column to sort by CPU, and see which ones are sitting at the top when the lag hits. Most of the time everything should be down around zero if your computer isn't doing anything.

Could also be a software/driver issue, I know computers that don't have the proper drivers for their hard drives installed can be brutally slow.