accskyman

Theres a couple different ways to improve the response of the mouse:

1. You could go to your control panel, printers and other hardware and change the mouse properties. Select the "Pointer Options" and you can change the speed of your mouse movement here.

Though doing this seems to only speed up your mouse, not so much a quicker response. You'll want to remember where this is for after next step.

2. Download Usbmrs11.exe from the link below, run it.
This works for windows 2k, and xp. Not sure of other windows as I've not tried it on them.

**Edit: was told by a member that it would not work for w2k pro, I am almost certain that I have used it on 2k or 2kpro before though. I no longer have a version of W2k to test this on**


http://www.proarena.com/p/ftpx/f9057...bmrs11.exe.htm
Or use the attached file at the bottom of the FAQ

After it comes up, click on "Patch" (read the disclaimer if you wish). Click no for 250, 500 and yes when it gets to "Enforce a polling rate of 1000 Hz/1 ms? (Y/N) Yes."

Restart your computer, and you should notice a large difference in the speed of your mouse. This is because it's reading the mouse more often in windows and responding quicker, and more often. More than likely it's going too fast now, go into the 1st step I listed and slow the speed down until you like it.

Last step : Go play your favorite FPS game and see if it made any difference!

I've been using this for over a year now and I've not noticed any damaged hardware, all my USB ports/hardware still work just fine.

If you wish to restore the original speed do the steps over and click no for all three rates, and yes to restore.

Attached Files

usbmrs11.zip (25.4 KB, 1152 views)

geekedittilitghz

excellent guide! Rep++!

shajbot

Does this affect your CPU performance? Since the USB clock faster than normal.

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accskyman

I've not noticed any difference in CPU usage, I've even used this on my 1ghz athlon and no noticable slowdowns in games or anything(used that for gaming for a year with this usb rate switcher). It may affect usage some but I doubt its anything noticable.

If you do notice any, simply do the steps over and click no for all 3 rates and click yes to restore the file.

gonX

Yes, it affects CPU usage, but a slight bit.

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