Posted August 20, 2018 It seems like when ever I install a steam game my laptop has a massive wave of dreadful input lag. Even though steam is only using 10% of the CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 20, 2018 Author Just now, GiantEvilPig said: It seems like when ever I install a steam game my laptop has a massive wave of dreadful input lag. Even though steam is only using 10% of the CPU. It is not mouse input lag but any key on the keyboard has about 1 second literately of lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 20, 2018 35 minutes ago, GiantEvilPig said: It seems like when ever I install a steam game my laptop has a massive wave of dreadful input lag. Even though steam is only using 10% of the CPU. This would most likely be your drive you're using for both the game installation, which is probably a HDD being at 100% usage because your hard drive has to write your game files and THEN what you want to load next (whatever you clicked on) hence the input lag. Edit: Open up task manager if you are on windows (if not some other program that can measure drive usage) to check this is the case. i7 8700k 5.0GHz 4.0Ghz Cache (Stock Cooler) 2x8GB 3400mhz RAM 19-19-19-38 GTX 1060 3GB 2050Mhz Core, 9500Mhz Memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 20, 2018 Author 11 minutes ago, TechMasterMind said: This would most likely be your drive you're using for both the game installation, which is probably a HDD being at 100% usage because your hard drive has to write your game files and THEN what you want to load next (whatever you clicked on) hence the input lag. Edit: Open up task manager if you are on windows (if not some other program that can measure drive usage) to check this is the case. I am using an SSD and the game is being written to an external SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 20, 2018 1 minute ago, GiantEvilPig said: I am using an SSD and the game is being written to an external SSD Well if it's external what interface are you using? USB 2.0, 3.0? i7 8700k 5.0GHz 4.0Ghz Cache (Stock Cooler) 2x8GB 3400mhz RAM 19-19-19-38 GTX 1060 3GB 2050Mhz Core, 9500Mhz Memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 20, 2018 Author 13 minutes ago, TechMasterMind said: Well if it's external what interface are you using? USB 2.0, 3.0? USB C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 20, 2018 You know all this information would've been useful earlier... OK well is there anything else you could tell me? Like is it the mouse on the desktop that's having issues? Are you playing an online steam game? What's your overall RAM, CPU, GPU etc. usage when you're in the programs you're experiencing the input lag? i7 8700k 5.0GHz 4.0Ghz Cache (Stock Cooler) 2x8GB 3400mhz RAM 19-19-19-38 GTX 1060 3GB 2050Mhz Core, 9500Mhz Memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 21, 2018 Some of your resources is being pinned to 100% or close to it. Thats technically not real input lag. Its just normal thing for PCs. It might be RAM or pagefile which is causing this as they buffer downloaded files to be moved/installed on external drive. Does the same happen if you install on internal drive? ^^^^ That's my post ^^^^ <-- This is me --- That's your scrollbar --> vvvv Who's there? vvvv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 22, 2018 Author On 8/20/2018 at 12:58 PM, TechMasterMind said: You know all this information would've been useful earlier... OK well is there anything else you could tell me? Like is it the mouse on the desktop that's having issues? Are you playing an online steam game? What's your overall RAM, CPU, GPU etc. usage when you're in the programs you're experiencing the input lag? The mouse is not the problem, it is the keyboard. I am not playing games, 8gb ram, I5 8250u, UHD 620, just 1-2 tabs of chrome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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