is my windows software causong problems?

**Rrasyrogenees** · October 8th, 2009

i am playing World of Warcraft on my computer and it seems that only when i have that on that my mouse will periodically stop working. it is a USB mouse so i just unplug it and plug it back in and it works again... but i was just curious if this was due to having a *cough* windows program on my computer. it sounds good to me to start another problem for windows as the downfall of mankind but it is more a curiosity thing. WoW plays great without much trouble except a little here or there but i know many "windows" users having the same or worse problems. i do usually have firefox open and playing youtube or sometimes a movie playing in vlc (but it doesn't seem to happen much with the movie playing). then again i am wondering if my computer is just not "up to speed"... that is always a worry to me but since i don't have any money left to buy more "goodies" i guess i have to wait a decade or two for my next computer... lol

asus m3a78-em
phenom quad 9950 2.6Ghz
4x 2Gb Kingston (KHX6400D2/2G)
nvidia geforce 9800gt
wd250oks 250Gb hard drive
razer copperhead laser gaming mouse
running on ubuntu 9.04

i do have windows xp on a separate hard drive and i don't use it much at all... i have it mostly for gaming but since WoW is taking most of my time for games i don't bother.

if anyone has some ideas about my mouse i would love to hear about it... if others have ideas and it has got nothing to do with my mouse... tell me anyway...

**marshmallow1304** · October 8th, 2009

I've never used WoW, but here's an idea. On the Graphics tab of Wine configuration (Applications -> Wine -> Configure Wine) check "Allow DirectX apps to stop the mouse leaving their window".