Mouse lag/delay in games.

Phal · 28 Mar 2009 at 19:10

Ive noticed it before in the past and just kinda put up with it...

Now Ive just installed Dead Space and got about 2 minutes into before the mouse/look delay has annoyed me enough to make me quit :|

Its not an FPS problem, Im Running a Q6600 and a GTX260 and Im not exactly using the highest settings either. You can also feel the mouse delay in the menus before you even start the game so that would seem to indicate its nothing to do with FPS.

Its just an annoying delay! Had the same in Farcry2 and other games :/ Is there something to enable/disable to get the mouse to feel more responsive?

Craig321 · 28 Mar 2009 at 19:19

I noticed the same in Far Cry 2 on the menus, but the problem went away when I actually got in game.

Some games just have crap mouse support on menus for some reason.

Phal · 28 Mar 2009 at 20:20

Yeah, Farcry2 menu was worse in the menus than in the game but I still noticed it in the game :/

Dead Space seems a lot worse though :| its all very elastic. You move and it feels like the camera view is moved by elastic bands :/ starts slow and then catches up.

Annoying!

Streeteh · 28 Mar 2009 at 20:25

Its a known issue in dead space so don't panic, it's easy to fix. Disable v-sync using the in-game menu and the lag will go away, if you can't live without v-sync force it in your driver options and you'll get v-sync without the lag.

Rroff · 28 Mar 2009 at 20:31

Some newer nvidia drivers don't seem to sync the settings in control panel with the actual applied settings so you might wanna toggle vsync, etc. on and off a couple of times, seems to fix it.

Phal · 28 Mar 2009 at 22:45

Ill give that a go

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EvilDreams · 29 Mar 2009 at 15:04

If the problem persists you'll have to set "render frames ahead" to 0 in coolbits/control panel/whatever nVidia uses these days.

HangTime · 29 Mar 2009 at 21:29

Yep, unless you get bad screen tearing you should always disable vsync to reduce 'mouse' lag (it's actually a delay in the screen rendering, but it's most noticeable when moving the mouse).

Also make sure you disable any 'mouse smoothing' options in your games.

Finally if you are running with a high framerate and refresh rate you may see a benefit from overclocking your USB mouse sampling rate, default is 125hz but you can change it up to 250, 333, 500 or 1000hz.

Phal · 29 Mar 2009 at 23:13

HangTime said:
Yep, unless you get bad screen tearing you should always disable vsync to reduce 'mouse' lag (it's actually a delay in the screen rendering, but it's most noticeable when moving the mouse).

Also make sure you disable any 'mouse smoothing' options in your games.

Finally if you are running with a high framerate and refresh rate you may see a benefit from overclocking your USB mouse sampling rate, default is 125hz but you can change it up to 250, 333, 500 or 1000hz.

Yeah, my mouse is already at 1000mhz sampling cos its set in the control panel for the mouse ( Roccat Kone )

It seems silly that you have to turn stuff off to make the game work properly :/ but I guess itll do!

Dead Space definitely seems a lot better with VSync off.

Another gripe Ive got with the game, when you go into aim mode, your sensitivity is reduced to 0.1