I'm recently seeing some very odd mouse behaviour in TA. It's been working pretty fine since I bought it at release, but now it's not possible to play.
The bug manifests as the graphics completely freezing when the cursor is moving. I get nice, stable FPS (atleast according to fraps) when it's still, but as soon as I move it, it gets very, very choppy and I have no idea where I'm actually moving the cursor. The choppiness seems to be almost complete graphics-freezes as long as the mouse is moving; rapid movement results in a near still-image of the menu screen (or wherever I'm at). Slower movement is choppy, but atleast it's possible to see a bit of what's going on. It also seems to jump around a bit, not much more than a few pixels in a random (I think) direction.
I've tried poking at the hardware mouse cursor setting, but there was no difference. Well, almost none: I could see the cursor since it was the default windows cursor now, but the game itself was still choppy and unusable.
The only change (to the game and it's related files) has been creating a character and logging into metaverse with it. No games played, though. I can't seem to find anything obvious in debug.err, but I've attached it in case it's needed. I haven't tried the exception catcher program from SDCentral, since that only seems to be useful with crashes.
EDIT: Solved. See
https://forums.galciv2.com/314558/page/1/#1764150
Debug Message: Version v1.91 Twilight of the Arnor last updated on: Thu May 1 12:15:51 2008
Debug Message: Checking DX Version.
Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.*********
System Info
Time: 6/10/2008, 17:31:23
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Machine Name: ILIA
Operating System: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (5.2, Build 3790) Service Pack 2 (3790.srv03_sp2_gdr.070321-2337)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Physical Memory: 4094MB RAM
Page File: 904MB used, 4477MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce 7950 GT
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0295&SUBSYS_82251043&REV_A1
Display Memory: 512.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (75Hz)
Monitor Name: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0011.6921
Driver Date: 12/5/2007 02:41:00
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes
Sound info
Sound device 1:
Description: SoundMAX HD Audio
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_198B&SUBSYS_104381F2&REV_1002
Manufacturer ID: 65535
Product ID: 65535
Driver Name: ADIHdAud.sys
Provider: AnalogDevices
Driver Version: 5.10.0002.6110
Driver Date: 1/16/2007 09:05:30
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 1
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Debug Message: *********END dxdiag info.*********
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