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I'm currently using a recent Dell laptop. The mouse movement stutters at about 5-20 FPS. Shut down every application on the system, disconnect every peripheral

I'm currently using a recent Dell laptop. The mouse movement stutters at about 5-20 FPS. Shut down every application on the system, disconnect every peripheral, it still stutters. I can type at normal speed. I can put video on each of my three monitors and play simultaneously with almost zero skipping. I can render extraordinary realtime 3-D. But I can't move the mouse across the desktop any better than I could on my Apple IIgs in 1986. If I pretend it's a bug and search for information I get dozens of forum posts where Microsoft reps recommend trying hours of intense "troubleshooting" procedures that amount to percussive maintenance: kick the machine and maybe it'll start working. So either I can spend days trying to find the answer or I can accept that mouse pointer movement hasn't improved in 34 years. Acceptance has come slowly.

TheGoddessInari 6y ago
Cheap mouse sensors can have issues still, and using any sensitivity but the default on Windows effectively skips or duplicates movements from hardware. 1:1 linear with disabled acceleration is still the gold standard for responsiveness and accuracy.
- StrictDabbler 6y ago
  I appreciate this response. I'm using a Microsoft Windows Mobile Mouse 3500. It's not expensive but it's not a weird cheapo device. Since that's a wireless mouse, let me say: it's not interference. I have used the mouse in metal lockers five stories underground. I have used it next to giant towers of mechanical equipment. Nothing gets worse or better. 1:1 linear takes about three meters to cross a triple-monitor space. I had to move the mouse onto the floor to even try. None of this happens on my wife's Mac, or if I run linux on this machine. It's some dumb sampling issue with USB and the display driver and the windowing manager. It's definitely FPS, not spatial sampling. The mouse moves to the right place. The system just doesn't show it moving often enough. The mouse isn't a first-class citizen. Nothing on windows is a first-class citizen. You get what you get and can't get upset. It makes me miss BeOS.

TheGoddessInari 6y ago

Cheap mouse sensors can have issues still, and using any sensitivity but the default on Windows effectively skips or duplicates movements from hardware. 1:1 linear with disabled acceleration is still the gold standard for responsiveness and accuracy.

StrictDabbler 6y ago
I appreciate this response. I'm using a Microsoft Windows Mobile Mouse 3500. It's not expensive but it's not a weird cheapo device. Since that's a wireless mouse, let me say: it's not interference. I have used the mouse in metal lockers five stories underground. I have used it next to giant towers of mechanical equipment. Nothing gets worse or better. 1:1 linear takes about three meters to cross a triple-monitor space. I had to move the mouse onto the floor to even try. None of this happens on my wife's Mac, or if I run linux on this machine. It's some dumb sampling issue with USB and the display driver and the windowing manager. It's definitely FPS, not spatial sampling. The mouse moves to the right place. The system just doesn't show it moving often enough. The mouse isn't a first-class citizen. Nothing on windows is a first-class citizen. You get what you get and can't get upset. It makes me miss BeOS.