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zeptriani's avatar
6 years ago

Mouse sensitivity and polling rate

Hello,

ever since Firestorm released I have had a problem with my mouse sensitivity. I normally have it perfectly set to 12in movement for 360 degree turn. Since the patch, no settings have changed, but the sensitivity is slower. I tried changing multiple different settings, but finally found lowering my mouse polling rate from 1000hz to 125hz fixed my slower mouse movement (though now more jerky given the lower Hz). This only occurred after Firestorm was released, previously in BFV my mouse worked perfectly.

This has not been an issue in any other application I have tried.

Any help would be appreciated, I dont understand why a lower polling rate in bfv improves mouse movements

3 Replies

  • A few possible solutions:

    -Update videocard software drivers

    -Defragment or TRIM (SSD) your OS and game drive

    -Make sure Windows is not updating in the background during a game (check windows update tab)

    -Remove mouse software

    -Update mouse software

    -Test other USB port

    -Re-Calibrate the mouse in the mouse software (calibration is sometimes removed on update or profile switch)

    -Lower the ingame mouse speed and up the mouse basic overall movement speed

    -Lower BFV graphics settings

    -Disable background applications (including mouse software) during a game

    -Preform a cleanboot of Windows

  • zeptriani's avatar
    zeptriani
    6 years ago

    thank you for the reply, unfortunately after trying everything on that list I have the same results..

    When using 1000 polling rate, my mouse sensitivity is off. when dropping it down to 125hz it is back to normal

    I also found that the discrepancy of mouse sensitivity is worse when playing a multiplayer game (vs the test range). for some reason 1000hz polling rate and playing online make the mouse sluggish and about 3-4 inches slower.

    I tried changing polling rates in other games and had no change in 360 degree distance with my calculated mouse settings.

    Any other suggestions I can try? I have not tried a new mouse, however given that it works in every other game Im hesitant to believe my mouse is the problem.

  • did more testing..

    If i use the command thread.processorcount 6, my CPU usage drops to 80% and my mouse works fine. Default, the thread count is 8 (i have an i7 6700k so that makes sense) but cpu usage bumps to 100%. limiting the thread count to 7 drops cpu usage to 90% but still get mouse issues.

    No idea why this started being a problem, but at least that is a fix for it

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