Cursor moving sluggish when games are open.

Xanek

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Hi, I am experiencing a problem with my computer to where whenever I have any kind of game open, my mouse will move sluggishly across my desktop whenever the mouse is not focused on the game, via alt-tab or second monitor.

This started happening last week for an unknown reason and I cannot find a solution on how to fix this.

Originally I thought it was a problem with my hard drive, but after running a scan with DTI's surfacescanner ( http://www.dtidata.com/windowssurfacescanner/ ) it showed no errors.
I have defragmented my hard driver and made sure all drivers were up-to-date before testing again and it still persists.

If possible, can anyone explain how this could be happening and how to fix this?

My computer specs are located in the following link, along with currently running processes.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/hvbIUD5mtBrpCyv8d5eb...

But for specifics, the mouse is the Razer Deathadder 2013 model
 
Try cleaning the underside/laser side of the mouse with canned air.
Re-post please and let us know if that helps.
If it isn't a dirty (doesn't take but a speck of dust or a hair to mess up the laser tracking), then it sounds like the mouse could be dieing or there is a conflict with software.
 

Xanek

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This only started happening last week though, I'm pretty sure I haven't installed any new drivers of the sort to create a conflict with drivers.

Also cleaning the underside of the mouse didn't do anything.