Windows 11 has problems with mouse polling rates higher than 500hz

[clar1tyyy]

I noticed this myself, I googled it and it seems that others have aswell. Can you confirm this?

[DPI Wizard]

Got no problems with higher polling rates here, if there is an issue it's probably hardware or driver related I guess.

[philheath]

im on windows 11, only thing i have noticed is mouse randomly feels sluggish on desktop moving through opened windows, may have some bug with gsync/freesync

[clar1tyyy]

For me it was especially noticable when I was playing cs:go. That being said I do not use g-sync/freesync.

[DPI Wizard]

Just now, clar1tyyy said:

For me it was especially noticable when I was playing cs:go.

Even with raw input on?

[clar1tyyy]

Yeah. I always have it on.

[clar1tyyy]

Maybe it happens with relation to the faceit anti-cheat.

[DPI Wizard]

Is it sluggish like there is a delay, or is the 360 distance etc just plain wrong?

[clar1tyyy]

The distance travelled feels inaccurate.

[DPI Wizard]

10 minutes ago, clar1tyyy said:

The distance travelled feels inaccurate.

Ok, this is typically what you get in Unreal Engine 4 games with smoothing on and 1000+ Hz. It is completely unrelated to the OS though, and a deliberate (and horrible) function of the game engine. In CSGO with raw input on I have never encountered this though.

Have you tried to check the sensitivity with a tool like Kovaak's sensitivity matcher? Although it does not replicate a physical mouse input, it does usually (but not always) stress the OS and game enough to check for inconsistencies.

[clar1tyyy]

Maybe it was a gpu driver issue all along.

Today for no reason my screen started flashing, and afterwards a window popped up indicating that my gpu drivers were "incompatible" with my hardware. I uninstalled using ddu in safe mode and I reinstalled the drivers having changed "device installation settings" to "no" prior to that. I changed the mouse's polling rate back to 1000hz and I played csgo with bots in a custom map for 5 minutes. I didn't have any issues... If I encounter the same thing again I will report back. Thank you for your time. I'm sorry my thread possibly turned out to be irrelevant.

[DPI Wizard]

1 minute ago, clar1tyyy said:

I'm sorry my thread possibly turned out to be irrelevant.

Not irrelevant, if the GPU driver can cause such issues it's good to know!

[clar1tyyy]

I am speculating now, but I think the issues that the drivers had, affected the mouse input because I had "GPU scaling" enabled under "display" settings.

[Quackerjack]

GPU scaling should be used for csgo at least at my system. Display scaling gave me stutter ingame.

[clar1tyyy]

Same applies for mine. I was just trying to connect the gpu driver issue with the mouse input problem.