Strange problem with my mouse

Hi there!

3 days ago I downloaded and installed the latest driver version for my Radeon 9800 XT card. Since then I have a really bad problem. I can play and the game runs much better than before but I get a complete computer crash sometimes while playing. Not CTD, the screen turns black and the monitor turns off while the PC gets stuck and I have to reboot. I reinstalled the drivers but still, same problem. I changed nothing else. DirectX 9.0c was installed before.

Here my PC specs:

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Page File: 318MB used, 2144MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found

Card name: RADEON 9800 XT
Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP (0x4E4A)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6677 (English)

May this happen because some drivers are German, some English? I don't think so but what do I know...


I have another, rather strange problem. My mouse tends to doubleclick on the battlefield which is REALLY annoying, especially during the deployment phase. I sometimes need 20 minutes just to position all my units because I can't draw a line as my right mousebutton always adds a 2nd click.

I never had this problem before in any game, and my mouse works properly in all other programmes, it's only messing around in EB.

I changed my mouse sensivity in Windows but that didn't help still the same when I play EB and there is no option ingame to change sensivity during the game.

Does anyone know what could cause this?

btw I have a Saitek optical mouse.

We have not had any reports about a specific graphics driver before, and it's not really something we're in any position to test. But as the game does not CTD, but rather crashes the computer, it's likely not part of EB doing it. Do I understand correctly when I conclude that the game was stable before installing the latest driver? I've had the same happen with an XFX NVidia card some 1-2 years ago, I had to search out an old driver that was stable (but a LOT slower than the latest one). You may have to try out a selection of drivers to see from which number it starts being unstable. In the end I had to buy another graphics card, let's hope that is not your case.

As for mouse doubleclicking, I think perhaps the contact inside the mouse is screwy. You could try another mouse to see if it's your hardware causing it. You could try to dismantle the mouse and clean it. Also, I think I've seen an option to "detect accidental double-clicks" in Windows, I have no idea what this really does though.