Strange mouse issues

[CinnaFresh]

I would like to apologize in advance for the long post, but I've been trying to figure this out for weeks, and I would like to avoid getting suggestions I've already received elsewhere if at all possible. I also apologize if this isn't the place for this kind of post. I've only just joined tonight, so I'm not familiar with everything yet.

 

Problem: So, I've been having an issue for about two months now. It started in Warhammer Vermintide 2, then Overwatch, and now it's starting to happen in more games like Skyrim, though much more often, and to a much higher degree in the first two games. It's almost like lag, but it only affects my mouse, and it's not so much a total loss of function as it is a freeze, or a "stick". For example, in Overwatch, if I'm playing Zenyatta and holding down the left mouse button when the problem happens, I won't be able to move my camera, but the character will continue shooting and automatically reloading until I regain control. Same with Vermintide. It primarily happens in those two games, but it does occasionally happen in some offline and non first-person games as well, but significantly less often, and in those it feels more like game lag than the issue I have in online first-person games. I don't know what the problem is. I've tried mice from logitech, razer, and steelseries, multiple mousepads, and every USB port I have available, and nothing seems to make a difference. I've made sure to keep all the mice's software up to date, along with any drivers they may have had.

 

Details: My current mouse, and the one that I've had the longest is a Logitech G503 Proteus Spectrum. I always keep my PC connected directly to my router via an ethernet port. I don't have anything plugged into my PC except keyboard, mouse, monitor, ethernet, headset, and of course, power. Whenever I play I always have as few applications open as possible. Typically just the game and Discord. If I'm playing Overwatch, I typically leave the battle.net launcher open in the background, unless it's trying to download something, then I let that finish before playing. Very occasionally, I'll have Chrome with a single tab open looping a youtube music playlist, but I've noticed no difference between the times I do and do not have this open. The only other time I have an issue is when I open new windows, my mouse will lag very badly for about 3-15 seconds depending on what I'm opening, but up to this point I've attributed that to my fairly low-mid grade PC parts. I've also never noticed any thermal throttling in either CPU or GPU. In winter my temps hovered around 60C for GPU and now in summer, it's usually around 70C. CPU usually maintains around 40C.

 

PC Information: My PC was purchased from iBuyPower, and as such I don't know every little thing about it, but I do know it's got an Intel Core i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40Hz, on an ASUS ROG STRIX B20G Gaming motherboard, 8 GB RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050ti.

 

If anyone has any ideas what might be wrong, I'd be happy to hear them, because it's really starting to affect my gameplay.

 

Any technical terms may need to be clarified, as I'm still very new to PC technology. This is the first PC I've owned in my 25 years of life, and I've only had it since February, so I ask that everyone have patience with me. Thank you all very much for your time.

 

Please read the whole thing before responding as I've been trying to figure this out for weeks now, and I would like to avoid getting the same responses as I've gotten from other groups and people I've talked to. Thank you.

 

I've included the PC specs as listed by iBuyPower, in case there's anything I missed that may be helpful in solving this.

[Husky]

Your machine should be flying, there should be no lag or any stuttering when opening anything and it should run most games at medium settings perfectly fine without any lag or mouse issues. Stuttering even when opening windows points to something else that is wrong, not an issue with how powerful your hardware is.

 

Try changing the polling rate of your mouse to something else like 125Hz or 500Hz. Sometimes high polling rates cause stuttering when the system is under high load. Also try run a stress test like AIDA64, Prime95, IntelBurnTest, Cinebench, OCCT, anything really and see if the mouse lags. Also try running a GPU stress test like Furmark at the same time as the CPU stress tests and see if it lags.

 

You may try booting a fresh install of Windows on an external drive and test if the lag is still present. Or just reinstall Windows on your main drive if you want to.

[CinnaFresh]

13 hours ago, Husky said:

Your machine should be flying, there should be no lag or any stuttering when opening anything and it should run most games at medium settings perfectly fine without any lag or mouse issues. Stuttering even when opening windows points to something else that is wrong, not an issue with how powerful your hardware is.

 

Try changing the polling rate of your mouse to something else like 125Hz or 500Hz. Sometimes high polling rates cause stuttering when the system is under high load. Also try run a stress test like AIDA64, Prime95, IntelBurnTest, Cinebench, OCCT, anything really and see if the mouse lags. Also try running a GPU stress test like Furmark at the same time as the CPU stress tests and see if it lags.

 

You may try booting a fresh install of Windows on an external drive and test if the lag is still present. Or just reinstall Windows on your main drive if you want to.

So, I did Cinebench and Furmark, didn't have any issues during Fumark, or in the Cinebench OpenGL test, but during the CPU test, I got some pretty bad stuttering. I'm not sure what all of this means though. I've included my Cinebench results. I didn't bother running both at once since I pretty much immediately found the problem with only one test, so I know I would have it with both. I've also tried both 250Hz and 125Hz polling rates, and had no change. Do I need to reinstall Windows? Because I'm not sure how to do that safely.

[Husky]

6 hours ago, CinnaFresh said:

So, I did Cinebench and Furmark, didn't have any issues during Fumark, or in the Cinebench OpenGL test, but during the CPU test, I got some pretty bad stuttering. I'm not sure what all of this means though. I've included my Cinebench results. I didn't bother running both at once since I pretty much immediately found the problem with only one test, so I know I would have it with both. I've also tried both 250Hz and 125Hz polling rates, and had no change. Do I need to reinstall Windows? Because I'm not sure how to do that safely.

Reset CMOS, go into BIOS and go to the exit tab and reset all settings.

 

Reinstalling Windows is not too difficult, you just need to make sure that you have all of your files backed up because reinstalling will literally "factory reset" your computer so that you can start fresh. You can use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to download a copy of Windows and make a bootable USB.

[magicammo]

On 6/1/2018 at 3:11 AM, CinnaFresh said:

I would like to apologize in advance for the long post, but I've been trying to figure this out for weeks, and I would like to avoid getting suggestions I've already received elsewhere if at all possible. I also apologize if this isn't the place for this kind of post. I've only just joined tonight, so I'm not familiar with everything yet.

 

Problem: So, I've been having an issue for about two months now. It started in Warhammer Vermintide 2, then Overwatch, and now it's starting to happen in more games like Skyrim, though much more often, and to a much higher degree in the first two games. It's almost like lag, but it only affects my mouse, and it's not so much a total loss of function as it is a freeze, or a "stick". For example, in Overwatch, if I'm playing Zenyatta and holding down the left mouse button when the problem happens, I won't be able to move my camera, but the character will continue shooting and automatically reloading until I regain control. Same with Vermintide. It primarily happens in those two games, but it does occasionally happen in some offline and non first-person games as well, but significantly less often, and in those it feels more like game lag than the issue I have in online first-person games. I don't know what the problem is. I've tried mice from logitech, razer, and steelseries, multiple mousepads, and every USB port I have available, and nothing seems to make a difference. I've made sure to keep all the mice's software up to date, along with any drivers they may have had.

 

Details: My current mouse, and the one that I've had the longest is a Logitech G503 Proteus Spectrum. I always keep my PC connected directly to my router via an ethernet port. I don't have anything plugged into my PC except keyboard, mouse, monitor, ethernet, headset, and of course, power. Whenever I play I always have as few applications open as possible. Typically just the game and Discord. If I'm playing Overwatch, I typically leave the battle.net launcher open in the background, unless it's trying to download something, then I let that finish before playing. Very occasionally, I'll have Chrome with a single tab open looping a youtube music playlist, but I've noticed no difference between the times I do and do not have this open. The only other time I have an issue is when I open new windows, my mouse will lag very badly for about 3-15 seconds depending on what I'm opening, but up to this point I've attributed that to my fairly low-mid grade PC parts. I've also never noticed any thermal throttling in either CPU or GPU. In winter my temps hovered around 60C for GPU and now in summer, it's usually around 70C. CPU usually maintains around 40C.

 

PC Information: My PC was purchased from iBuyPower, and as such I don't know every little thing about it, but I do know it's got an Intel Core i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40Hz, on an ASUS ROG STRIX B20G Gaming motherboard, 8 GB RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050ti.

 

If anyone has any ideas what might be wrong, I'd be happy to hear them, because it's really starting to affect my gameplay.

 

Any technical terms may need to be clarified, as I'm still very new to PC technology. This is the first PC I've owned in my 25 years of life, and I've only had it since February, so I ask that everyone have patience with me. Thank you all very much for your time.

 

Please read the whole thing before responding as I've been trying to figure this out for weeks now, and I would like to avoid getting the same responses as I've gotten from other groups and people I've talked to. Thank you.

 

I've included the PC specs as listed by iBuyPower, in case there's anything I missed that may be helpful in solving this.

I feel like I have experienced this before. you should open task manager while a game is running to check your ram usage. I had a memory leak it caused my mouse to lag and certain games to as well you may want to check that good luck!