Windows 10: Mouse stuttering/lag when playing

Hi all,I’m dealing with a frustrating issue where my mouse starts to stutter and lag as soon as I open a game. The problem mostly happens when I’m gaming—other programs work perfectly fine. The game runs smoothly only the mouse movement is lagging/stuttering. As I work sometimes from home and connect through RDS to the work pc, I also experience the mouse stuttering here. Weirdly the problem persists since yesterday, and I made no changes or installed something new. It may be connected to some windows update in the background but I have no idea how to check that.Specs:CPU usage: ~30%GPU usage:

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Mouse lag/stutter playing games in Windows 10

Since I got this computer:

• i5 7600K 3.80Ghz
  
• 16 RAM Single channel 1069 Mhz
  
• STRIX Z270E mobo
  
• PG348Q Monitor
  
• GTX 1080 Zotac
  
• 500 GB SSD Western Digital
  

I haven't been able to play smooth any games with a mouse. It does work well with an Xbox controller via USB tho. Quite an irony. The micro stuttering or lag happens when I use the mouse - it is unplayable and gives some headache with the time. It does happen in single and multiplayer and the FPS are not a problem, no drops and its steady well above 60.

While in game, if I use the keyboard to move around or I use the Xbox controller everything goes well, the issue shows up as soon as I move the mouse to look around. After a lot of googling and 2 weeks of installing OSs and trying everything, my guess is that the issue is related to the mouse polling rate. The feeling is clearly different to lag or fps drops but close enough for me to call it stutter or lag, not sure if there is a specific term. The software Mouse Rate Checker shows an average of 90Hz.

I've tried overclocking the mouse polling rate but no effort yet. In case it might be something different, what are your ideas? What could it be?

The OS and Nvidia drivers I've tried are:

Windows 10 64 - I've tried the Education N version, up to date and a doggy Pro one which haven't updated, just in case, which currently is in 1511 (just before anniversary update).
Nvidia drivers: have tried the last 2 versions (I can't recall the exact v. number of the previous one, I think it had a "28" at the end).

 

Mouse stuttering/Lag?

So i have been having this issue for a while and have gotten pretty annoyed at what's happening. Whenever i play a game, regardless of what it is even league of legends my mouse is skipping across the screen when i move it. Sometimes the mouse is fine and
even when i leave whatever game im playing it even stops lagging/stuttering so i dont know what the issue is. If you have any fixes please let me know I am also using a acer laptop.

Specs: (processor) Intel Core (I5-5200U @2.20ghz)

(Ram): 8GB64 Bit

Any Help would be greatly appreciated since this is a very annoying issue, also have tried resetting my pc to no avail as i lag as soon as i start playing any games.

 

Mouse lag/stuttering

Option 1 - General troubleshooting steps

1. Try a different USB port

2. In case of wireless mouse, pair it again with the computer

3. In case of wireless mouse, check if batteries are not weak.

Option 2 - Use the Hardware & Devices Troubleshooter

Type Control in Windows Start Search box

Click Control Panel

Click Troubleshooting > View all

Select Hardware and Device

Click on Advanced on the Hardware troubleshooter dialog box and click on Run as administrator (Enter the credentials if required).

Click on Next and follow onscreen instruction complete the Hardware troubleshooter

Option 3: Update mouse driver

Windows Key+X (Or right click on Start)

Click Device Manager

Expand Mice and Other Pointing Devices

Right click on the mouse listed there (You will have to repeat the steps for all entries listed including Synaptics)

Click Update Driver Software

Click Browse my computer for driver software

Click Let my pick from a list of device drivers on my computer

Choose the driver

Click Next to update

If this does not work, select Search automatically for the updated driver in place of Browse my computer for driver software

Restart your computer

Option 4: Update driver from manufacturer's website (You will have to repeat the steps for all entries listed including Synaptics)

Go to the website of the Mouse's manufacturer or computer's manufacturer

See if some driver is released for your model and OS

If yes, download that

In Option 2, you click Update Driver Software, in place of this, click Uninstall

Install the downloaded driver

Restart your computer

Option 5: Roll back the driver (You will have to repeat the steps for all entries listed including Synaptics)

Windows Key+X (Or right click on Start)

Click Device Manager

Expand Mice and Other Pointing Devices

Right click on the mouse listed there

Click Properties

Under Drive tab, if Rollback Driver is enabled click it