Cursor stutters and becomes very slow when something is loading (a website, a program, etc.)

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Hi there,

I purchased Cursor FX a couple of days ago, and while I love all the features and huge range of cursors, I'm experiencing slowdown issues on my high-end, more-than-capable gaming PC.

For example, if you moved my cursor around in a circle continuously on the screen while I loaded Chrome, searched Google, clicked on sites, etc. you'd notice whenever something is loading, whether it's loading Chrome, loading a site, opening a Word document or opening Task Manager, it slows down and stutters. It's not significant in a way that the cursor has big sudden gaps of movement, rather the cursor's movement is reduced until whatever is loading is completely finished. It's beyond irritating and unfortunately I now have gone back to the standard plain Windows 7 cursor which runs completely fine all the time.

I tried several different cursors including the very basic CursorFX Default cursor, and still, the problem occurs on every single one.

My overall CPU usage is mostly at 0% with the occasional touch of 1%, with RAM usage at just under 50% of my 4GB total. CursorFX's CPU priority is always set to High, and no matter what I change it to it always reverts back to High after a couple of seconds.

 

If anyone can help me with this, I'd be greatly appreciative.

Thank you,

Miles

cursorfx
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sounds like Your processor only have so much capacity... When working with things taking up much of it´s function it would obviously affect the visuals a bit... :|

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting neone6, reply 1
Sounds like Your processor only have so much capacity... When working with things taking up much of it´s function it would obviously affect the visuals a bit...
End of neone6's quote

 

Thanks for the reply, but I don't quite understand what you were getting at.

 

System specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.8GHz

Asus Radeon HD 5850 1GB Reference

Corsair Dominator (2x2GB) DDR3 Dual Channel @ 1600MHz

CursorFX - Customize your Windows cursor
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well, the symptoms you described sounded like the cpu was busy doing other stuff. :grin:

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting neone6, reply 3
Well, the symptoms you described sounded like the cpu was busy doing other stuff.
End of neone6's quote

 

That's what I thought, which is driving me insane :P I don't know what's going on, I felt like I was using a crappy laptop every time I was using CursorFX, when the PC is very far from it.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Have you tried another mouse? If using Setpoint, have you tried disabling it?

Not saying CFX should behave that way with any mouse, just trying to narrow it down. ;)

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Perhaps if you open task manager and take a look at the processes. See which ones if any are running high numbers. Background apps may be responsible. Don't know if that's the case but it may help narrow it down further.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Email support@stardock.com so we can get some logs and see what's up.