Ey! Me again, been a while. Over 7 years already? Jeez. Apologies for the necro, but still relevant.
I'm wondering if anybody knows of a program that's able to smooth out mouse movements, as previously suggested.
It should preferably be strong/adjustable enough to completely smooth out 125Hz polling rate movements on a 60Hz monitor, so there are no visible stutters.
Something like this:
https://processing.org/examples/interpolate.html
But one that works in games.
I already tried out:
- Silky Shark (makes the mouse stutter more)
- Lazy Nezumi Pro (can't hook to games)
- IBM MouseSmoother Mouse Smoothing Software (too old, can't install driver)
- SteadyMouse v1 (doesn't smooth out polling rate/refresh rate misalignments)
I did not try out later versions of SteadyMouse yet. The webpage mentions that game compatibility is very spotty. I might try it out later anyway, but since it's not free software, I'd like some feedback first from people who have already tried it out.
Before people suggest playing at 125fps/125Hz/125Hz - this works well enough (despite the eventual mismatch, resulting in one skip every x seconds/minutes), but many games are too heavy for this system to achieve 125fps. Also, I'd like to be able to use an older monitor that doesn't support 125Hz.
Before people suggest setting the polling rate to 1000Hz - that's what I use now, but it just doesn't look smooth enough, not even on a 60Hz/50Hz monitor. I Tried out more than just a handful of mice, monitors and operating systems, but it's always the same. 1000Hz looks microstuttery. It's subtle, but enough to completely and utterly grind my gears. Can't play like this.
Before people suggest lowering my polling rate further - none of my mice will go any lower than 125Hz. SweetLow's hidusbf drivers should be able to do the trick and 62.5Hz should be manageable (half of 125Hz), but I have not been able to get it to work yet (the mouse and keyboard break/stop being recognized when I try it out, and it was a hassle getting the Logitech Software to work again, which I need it to). I could use some more advice on this, since it would be great if I could get it to work.
Before people suggest buying a 2kHz/8kHz mouse - already have one, but I need this to work on a mostly offline retro system running Windows 7, and I believe none of the mice that support higher polling rates work properly on Windows 7 due to a lack of software support. At least mine doesn't.
Thank you in advance, much appreciated.