Does a good gaming mouse remove VSYNC mouse-lag?

mxoagentjohnson

mxoagentjohnson

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I was just curious, as i was considering getting a R.A.T 3 to replace my cheapo mouse thats causing problems.

But i wondered if the good gaming mouse owuld remove mouselag with vsync on

My specs are 6870 1GH sapphire.
6GB of ram
i7 2600 @ 3.4ghz
Thanks!

Also if you have any suggestions for mouses that'd be great too!
 
Technically, vsync has nothing to do with the mouse, but the way the game updates are implemented. If the game uses vsync and locks the update, the input capture, as well as the rendering to it, then you will still get an average of 8 ms 'lag'.

Some games lock even game logic updates at 30fps, while the render thread runs as fast as it can. Some games also poll inputs in another thread, faster than the update thread, to compensate for the low update rate.

It's game dependent, really, but it can also be your mouse being ****, so could see some improvements. In theory, you would perceive between 30ms to 10ms lag from the game, plus your mouse polling latency, and USB latency.
 
im having the same issues as you, especially in The hunter and GTA IV. the issue was so bad in the hunter that i asked the devs and, while there was no complete fix, enabling triple buffering and reducing maximum pre rendered frames to 1 (both at a driver level) did help slightly
 
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