Mouse Lag / Input Delay

Product: Battlefield 2042
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number RTX 3080 10GB
Enter RAM memory size in GB 32GB
Are you using any software with an overlay? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
Which part of the mode? Breakthrough
Please select your region Europe
On which server did this happen? all of them
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 06.10.2022 ALL Day
Summarize your bug Load into a server, try to move my mouse, mouse input is laggy and feels floaty.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Who knows, plug a mouse in and see if it happens. Logitech G305 is the mouse I use.
What happens when the bug occurs? The mouse input doesnt act as it should, move mouse left, after 500ms the mouse will actually float left.
What should be happening instead? The mouse should be moving my reticle / view at the speed im moving my hand and not floating.

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Here is a video of my hand & and the ingame input floating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viIfxVYdaMg

bug

h3x1e
3 years ago
So funnily enough, I was getting another issue this morning when trying to launch the game where it would just stick on a small black box screen.
Fix: Delete settings folder in ~/Documents/BF2042/
I was then able to join a game after re-doing all my settings, and I didnt experience the floaty mouse issue as shown in the video.
Will keep playing to confirm it fixed the issue. (for now)

20 Replies

EA_Illium
Community Manager
3 years ago
@h3x1e Can you try turning down the mouse's dpi setting and checking if this continues?
h3x1e
3 years ago
Mouse DPI is at 400, it's lowest it'll go.
This issue was intermittent previously, it now seems to be constant. Gonna try polling rate to 500 or something now that you mentioned DPI.
h3x1e
3 years ago
Using 500 Polling rate seems better, but there still feels like some floaty ness, it isnt anywhere near as bad as the video though.
pecmeserp
3 years ago
Try enabling Raw Input (in game) and disable mouse acceleration in Windows. Always use the highest available polling rate.
h3x1e
3 years ago
This is standard gamer stuff, Mouse Accell is OFF, and Raw Input in game HAS to be enabled or the mouse doesnt work at all.
h3x1e
3 years ago
So funnily enough, I was getting another issue this morning when trying to launch the game where it would just stick on a small black box screen.
Fix: Delete settings folder in ~/Documents/BF2042/
I was then able to join a game after re-doing all my settings, and I didnt experience the floaty mouse issue as shown in the video.
Will keep playing to confirm it fixed the issue. (for now)
EA_Illium
Community Manager
3 years ago
@h3x1e Glad to hear you found a solution for this!
LazyPlayer07
3 years ago
@EA_Illium I'm having the same issue. Deleting settings folder didn't solve the issue for me. Anything else you could suggest?
Tygrvs
3 years ago
On the surface, the problem seems to be related with Mouse Input. This is not the case at all. The issue is entirely caused by the latest version of Nvidia driver.
Geforce Game Ready Driver 522.25
I experienced this issue yesterday evening, after downloading the new driver. I performed clean installation and removed every profile. My friends had exactly the same problem on the Turnig and Ampere GPUs.
@LazyPlayer07 @h3x1e
Rolling back the older version of the Nvidia driver solves the issue entirely.
@EA_Illium
This issue should be further verified and Nvidia employees should be informed that their driver has broken your product.
h3x1e
3 years ago
It isnt an Nvidia driver problem, as it was happening on 521 driver too and on WAY earlier drivers.
It's an issue with battlefield
It hasnt re-appeared yet (Nvidia Driver 522.25) but Im not holding my breath, as this issue was an inconsistent one on previous drivers / versions of the game althought I havent been experiencing it intermitently during gameplay these past few updates.