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by ChristophSmaul1337 » Today, 12:14
Hello again, dear community.
I've returned to this forum to give you guys an update on my situation and give an overview of things that have happened since I've last posted here. There is still no conclusive fix in here.
Since I've last posted in this forum there have been some changes towards my problem. Up until now I've "only" been plagued by heavy desync, bad hit detection and a general horrible feeling when playing games.
As my usual routine I'm reinstalling my Windows every other month, it's quick and easy enough to do. This time things have been different from the usual reinstalls, though. Immediately upon reaching the desktop I've noticed that the mouse movement also feels horrible now. I've stated before that I didn't feel bad mouse input, well that has changed until a week or so ago. Moving the mouse on the desktop now felt horrible, and "heavy". The typical feeling when there is input lag present. To make sure the installation wasn't corrupted, I've reinstalled a second time but the horrible mouse feeling stayed. This has terrified me because now it has been really, really annoying to even use the computer at all.
I've been on the search to remedy this situation and I've been coming across a thread I'm now unable to find again, but it has helped somewhat. I've been contemplating posting what I've found, because it's probably just another "software band aid" to a problem that lies so much deeper than what it seems. After thinking it through I've come to the realization that maybe somebody has this exact problem and can alleviate some horrendous mouse feeling with this. It's certainly worth a try.
I'm also aware that this isn't related to electricity, or any other form of "external" influences, so I'm technically in the wrong forum section now, but I don't want to open another thread just for this. I'm sorry if this isn't allowed, and if so, please remove my post accordingly. Thanks!
What it boils down to is some weird stuff that is happening in the device manager, pointing towards driver conflicts. If you open your device manager, you have to change the view first: Click on "View" in the top bar and select "Devices by connection". Scroll down until you find PCI-Express Root Complex and open it's subcontents. Every entry here has to be examined in the following way: Right-click an entry and select "Properties". Then, select "Events" on the top. Scroll down to the bottom of the events and look at the latest entry (for me, the latest entry is at the bottom. it might be different for you). If it says "Device not started", it is problematic. If it says anything else, like Device started, Device configured, or even nothing at all, that's all fine. Here is now where it gets tricky. Say there is a device that isn't started, you'll have to find a way to make it start correctly. What has done the trick for me is the following method, but this can be wildly different (I'll provide an example from my machine for reference along the way). Find out which device is affected by this problem. For me, there was multiple instances of "PCI Express Root Port" which showed as "not started". You then have to find the driver from the manufacturer for this device. In my case, it meant installing the chipset drivers. After doing this, open the task manager again and check if the device now started correctly. For me, it didn't and it would still show "Device not started". If you have this, right-click the device and select "uninstall". There should be a checkbox saying "Uninstall the driver software for this device", or similar. Do not check this box (important). After the "uninstall" has finished, reboot your computer. Go to device manager again, and the device should now show up as started. For me, this did the trick. I've now invested 3 hours doing this for every device that would show as "not started" and it improved the mouse feeling considerably.
Again, I believe this to be just another band-aid thing that just swipes the root problem somewhat under the rug. As I said before, I've read this in some post that now can't even be found in my browsing history, for whatever reason. I would love to link you to it, but it seems to be gone. I've already experimented with this underneath Windows 11 and it appears to be completely broken. For example, I could not get the "Device started" entry for my network card, no matter what I did and which drivers I used. On Windows 10, the method works immediately. This might come down to motherboard compatibility with newer Windows versions, for example my old Z490 motherboard was made with Windows 10 in mind and therefore might not be compatible with Windows 11. But this is all speculation from my side, and I can't provide data or evidence. Hell, for all I know this method could very well not even do anything, but it's still worth a try if your mouse feels bad.
The obligatory word of warning, but if you're not sure what you're doing or can't blind recover an installation, please don't try it. I haven't had anything broken by it, and I don't think it can break anything, but you never know. I'm not taking responsibility if you try and somehow manage to brick your install.
So, I'm now back to square 1 with the problem. Desync is still present and the root cause certainly hasn't been fixed yet. I just wanted to give you something to try out. Maybe this has helped one person, and if it did, I'm already happy. For all the others who suffer, I wish you good luck. Stay strong and keep the research up, we'll eventually find the cause and get rid of it.
Sincerely
