Input freezes for ~3 seconds while gaming, yet the game doesn't freeze or lose FPS.

[MorhenWolf]

Hello, everyone!

 

The issue is as said in title, to give more information on this, I'll start with the issue itself.

 

The problem: while playing Cyberpunk 2077 and more recently, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide I have very often input freezes that make my input from mouse and keyboard unresponsive for several seconds, then it comes back to normal, I tested with Riva Tuner Statistics Server to see if I have anything overloaded (the CPU, the GPU, etc.) and everything seems fine.

 

What I tried:

- updating and clean installing all drivers;

- windows updates as well;

- optimizing nVidia Control Panel settings;

- turning everything to low in the graphics options as well as optimizing each settings option in the said games;

- trying other games (I didn't have this issue in other game, one example is Elden Ring which came out this year);

- updating to last BIOS version.

 

My Setup (not sure if every piece is worth mentioning, but why not):

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800x

RAM: GSkill Trident Z RGB 16GB 3200MHz

Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS MASTER

GPU:  GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GAMING X TRIO 8GB

PSU: be quiet! Straight Power 11 1000W Platinum

Storage:

• 250GB SSD KINGSTON
• 2TB HDD Seagate BarraCuda, SATA III 600
• 1TB SSD Samsung 980 Evo
• 2TB SSD ADATA Falcon (on this one I put the games, maybe I should try other SSD?).

Display: x2 LED AOC Gaming C24G1 24 inch

Keyboard: ACR 98 Akkogear

Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero

Headset:

• HiFiman Sundara
• Logitech Pro X

Audio:

• Microphone: Rode Procaster
• Audio interface: Audient ID14
• Speakers: Presonus Eris E3.5

Video:

• Elgato Facecam
• Elgato Key Light

OS: Windows 10 Enterprise

 

I could try playing with other mouse and keyboard, just for the sake of it, and I'll try that very soon, but since the issue doesn't appear in other games so far, I don't think it's this.

Besides this, I'm pretty lost, never had this issue and I tried every fix I could find on the internet, nothing helped so far.

 

Thank you for taking your time to read this!

[Cyberat]

AMD has a driver setting for reducing input lag.

Perhaps nVidia has one too, dig around in settings, see if that does it for you.

As for all around Bios Optimization and Latency reduction, that's a whole other world to get into.

[Cyberat]

As for SSDs, they did get better, though Samsung Evo & SanDisk Ultra hold consistent fast records.

[MorhenWolf]

Tried those:
- try on another SSD - no difference
- try with another mouse - no difference
- try out with 58-59 FPS limit - no difference
- hardware cursor on - no difference
- disable vsync/tripple buffering - no difference
- use freesync - no difference
- lower „report rate” to 500, 250, 125 for the mouse - no difference
- lower hz from 144 to 60 on the displays - no difference