Cursor Very Slowed and Multiple Instances.

[abrogard]

I don't know what to call this phenomena but it's known to everyone I think, maybe.

Your cursor (an arrow in this instance) starts moving very slowly and at the same time leaves its image where it has been.

So that a string of arrows appears across the screen. Following the cursor wherever it goes. Like the screen doesn't seem to get refreshed after a cursor movement.

What is going on? Is there a fix?

My son plays Roblox and it used to work okay: so that looks like his old machine, running XP, at least was good enough.

But now it does that.

Roblox is a web based game of course. Is it a fault at the web end? Or down on his machine? Does anyone know exactly what is happening when this happens? What can I do for him short of going out and buying him a new machine?

There's gigabytes of disk space. CPU usage is not 100%. Mem usage is not 100%. As best I can make out from Task Manager.

[theewizard]

cursor 'trails' can be turned off in the control panel, or touch pad control
along with speed of the cursor movement

sounds like something changed 'there'

thats the first place i would look

[abrogard]

I'll take a look but I strongly doubt that's the problem. It only happens in Roblox. Game graphics. Control Panel cursor controls effect what the cursor does all the time, anywhere, don't they?

[redwudz]

I would suspect your video card drivers and software. Maybe update them or replace the video card if it's a bit old.
Video card drivers and associated video card software has been getting much larger in the past few years. ATI software is now a huge download.
I suspect others are similar.

Maybe start over? Uninstall your video card software and reinstall it with the latest version. Worth trying if all else fails.