'Potentially' solved my issue with the mouse.

[Vocaleyes]

Hi everyone, cutting to the chase.


As the title highlights, I have only done this within the last hour, but already it's looking quite promising.
The thought behind this was acceleration and it's hit & miss results. As in some Rigs would be fine with it, others would need it disabled to solve issues. My rigs were the latter. Just didn't seem to like acceleration at all.

Now this could also explain why other PC's and streamers etc. wouldn't need to configure anything, yet their gameplay and aim seemed smoother & more responsively accurate. Due to their rigs being fine with accel.

Now I've always been in the habit of turning off acceleration everywhere, from windows, to edge and discord.. basically I see acceleration, I disable.

Well.. Until today I wasn't aware (am noob), but Directx actually came with acceleration pre-enabled in my instance, unsure if that's the same for everyone else hence the wording.

So I downloaded a tool to test. [See attached image]

When i launched the tool, i saw that in 2 tabs there were the options to disable hardware acceleration as shown by the yellow circles. I disabled them and then headed in to a game.

Immediately noticing a more responsive mouse and game in general.


Buuuut, as usual.. obligatory potential placebo. As after this amount of time I don't trust myself anymore..

But as this was instantly noticeable and i got excited, i decided to share with you guys as what's the worst that can happen (OBVIOUSLY do at your own risk, I am by no means an expert)

I think the tool was called directx control panel, "think" because all that shows up for me is a directx.cpl which i have to run as admin in order to get it to do the thing.


Very early shout here guys, literally play by playing it right now so 0 testing time whatsoever.


Will update as time progresses!


Please correct me if this is just Jesus toast/ egg on the face.

Placebo can be a mother.

[TheKelz]

From a small Googling that I did, this does not seem to be in relation to mouse at all. This simply helps with boosting the performance in some Directx programs. Pretty sure it's either a placebo or one of those "changed something and it helped" moment, meaning that it 100% will come back.

[MontyTheAverage]

Wait wtf... Been struggling to get 5 kills all day in Apex. Turned it off and just got 17 kills... Still felt some input lag but killing was so easy.... and no desync.

First 2 times I tried it, it turned on again after applying and closing the program. Same after restarting also. But turning it off and then applying but keeping the window open. ANd game got better...

Now wait to see if the problems come back like all other temporary solutions from before.

Update: It comes back after few games

[pox02]

what is this !!!! ??? its feels insanely good thank you very muchh my mouse feels like on ice when i turn both off

[kriegsnake]

Thanks for sharing, but this one doesn't do anything in my case.

[eropsy]

could someone check dxdiag after disabling hardware acceleration. Mine shows enabled even though i disabled in directx.cpl.

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[n1zoo]

I don't know if it's a placebo, but the mouse feels slightly different. For me dxdiag also shows that Acceleration is enabled.

[kriegsnake]

could someone check dxdiag after disabling hardware acceleration. Mine shows enabled even though i disabled in directx.cpl.
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same, no difference in dxdiag

[eropsy]

could someone check dxdiag after disabling hardware acceleration. Mine shows enabled even though i disabled in directx.cpl.
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same, no difference in dxdiag

thanks. looks like directx control panel is useless

[xShino]

Tried this, at least for me on my desktop there is no difference in mouse movement (lag or accel).