I've noticed that in Steam, Notepad++, and Spotify when I begin typing in a field the first character will appear, then nothing until somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds later the rest of the text will appear. There's no exceptional memory or disk use during this time period, and nothing else is effected. Steam is the worst offender, occasionally taking up to 45 seconds for the message to appear, though it doesn't stop responding. There is no delay in sending or receiving messages otherwise. Restarting fixes it temporarily but it the problem reappears over time. All I've managed to find using Google relates to keyboard issues, and I'd assume it would be system wide if somehow my laptop keyboard was screwing up. All drivers are, as far as I can tell, up to date.
If anyone has any idea what it could be, or could give me an idea of what to search (I've been searching "input lag" but I feel that's probably not the right term) to figure out how to solve it on my own it'd be much appreciated.
so its only some programs? ill have a look and see what i can find.
It's now spread to most anything that has a text field and isn't in a browser and some programs are slow to close (opening sees no delay as far as I can tell). I noticed that my processor usage now spikes from 8-10% to around 30%, or even as high as 78% one time while I'm trying to type. If I type with a 3-4 second delay between letters there is no problem, but a brief spike in processor use with each keystroke. This processor hit doesn't happen when typing in Firefox.
It is a laptop, but the processor and mobo are both idling (well with 3 FF tabs open, and Speccy itself) at 60+ degrees, typically around 65ish. Laptop sits on a flat surface and is propped up for more ventilation because it's had mild heat issues since day 1, but never this bad under minimal load.
I thought it was possibly the Nvidia card in it causing the massive heat, but switching over to the Intel Integrated only knocked the average down by 2 degrees. I fairly regularly take a can of air to it, but did so today as well so unless there's filth caked deep inside its guts somehow I don't think that contributes.
Processor is a 2.3GHz i7.
You should see what process is using the CPU when typing. it could be a program in the background causing the delay
According to task manager, it's the programs themselves, well, solely the program in the case of steam, and a combination of both Notepad++ and WindowsErrorReporter for Notepad++.
Check the location of that windows error reporter. Right click, view file location
It was Windows Problem Reporter rather (WerFault.exe) and it's in C:\Windows\SysWOW64
-im dumb, missed out a simple fact-
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