Start out by saying I have a pretty crappy motherboard
http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/GA-Z87X-UD4H-rev-1x#ov
So, I am not sure if this might have something to do with it.
I've been playing FPS games for years, always been pretty decent at them. It wasn't until recently however I acquired my first (crappy) 144hz (IPS) monitor. I am pretty sensitive to things like input lag or anything interfering with my accuracy from muscle memory. I'm pretty adaptable so I am able to switch in/360 quite often if I choose to but I decided to settle on 12in/360. My current active game is Overwatch. I've played a lot of competitive Left4Dead 2 and Natural Selection 2. I tried to get into CS:GO but just couldn't bear how boring the gameplay felt.
However when I started to move away from Left4Dead 2 I noticed something odd in all my other FPS games. I had some serious trouble aiming, and it wasn't because of the different movement mechanics of targets. In games like CS:GO, Overwatch, and Natural Selection 2 it always felt like my mouse was seriously floating. It wasn't a framerate issue, didn't feel like input lag, but just felt like a serious inaccuracy and overall floatiness similar to if you had VSync on except without the input lag.
This has been over years. I've had many different mousepads, mice, CPUs, GPUs, PSUs and operating systems. However the "floatiness" stayed. As someone who has a lot of free time, I use it to troubleshoot and tinker with BIOS and OS settings to see how it affects my gameplay. Though everyone is subject to placebo, I feel I do a pretty good job not having it when I mess around with things.
Long tinkering story short, I enabled/disabled things like HPET in BIOS/OS, XHCI drivers, ect. I noticed that when I had XHCI mode enabled in BIOS and it made a call to Win10 to use my modified XHCI drivers - http://www.win-raid.com/t834f25-USB-Drivers-original-and-modded.html - since the default Win10 XHCI driver is terribly laggy.
With XHCI on my mouse feels incredibly easy to control, not floaty at all. However there are times where it feels like it's delayed slightly, like I expected the crosshair to lock onto a target faster. With XHCI off, my mouse feels hard to control, floaty, almost skipping but doesn't feel like it's delayed.
An image to give an idea of what it feels like
Here is another image over at Blur Busters, but this is moreso 1000hz vs 500hz. Still however, it gives an idea of explaining how my mouse feels on EHCI drivers.
Is there anyone else with experience in this? What's your 2cents on this?
http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/GA-Z87X-UD4H-rev-1x#ov
So, I am not sure if this might have something to do with it.
I've been playing FPS games for years, always been pretty decent at them. It wasn't until recently however I acquired my first (crappy) 144hz (IPS) monitor. I am pretty sensitive to things like input lag or anything interfering with my accuracy from muscle memory. I'm pretty adaptable so I am able to switch in/360 quite often if I choose to but I decided to settle on 12in/360. My current active game is Overwatch. I've played a lot of competitive Left4Dead 2 and Natural Selection 2. I tried to get into CS:GO but just couldn't bear how boring the gameplay felt.
However when I started to move away from Left4Dead 2 I noticed something odd in all my other FPS games. I had some serious trouble aiming, and it wasn't because of the different movement mechanics of targets. In games like CS:GO, Overwatch, and Natural Selection 2 it always felt like my mouse was seriously floating. It wasn't a framerate issue, didn't feel like input lag, but just felt like a serious inaccuracy and overall floatiness similar to if you had VSync on except without the input lag.
This has been over years. I've had many different mousepads, mice, CPUs, GPUs, PSUs and operating systems. However the "floatiness" stayed. As someone who has a lot of free time, I use it to troubleshoot and tinker with BIOS and OS settings to see how it affects my gameplay. Though everyone is subject to placebo, I feel I do a pretty good job not having it when I mess around with things.
Long tinkering story short, I enabled/disabled things like HPET in BIOS/OS, XHCI drivers, ect. I noticed that when I had XHCI mode enabled in BIOS and it made a call to Win10 to use my modified XHCI drivers - http://www.win-raid.com/t834f25-USB-Drivers-original-and-modded.html - since the default Win10 XHCI driver is terribly laggy.
With XHCI on my mouse feels incredibly easy to control, not floaty at all. However there are times where it feels like it's delayed slightly, like I expected the crosshair to lock onto a target faster. With XHCI off, my mouse feels hard to control, floaty, almost skipping but doesn't feel like it's delayed.
An image to give an idea of what it feels like
Here is another image over at Blur Busters, but this is moreso 1000hz vs 500hz. Still however, it gives an idea of explaining how my mouse feels on EHCI drivers.
Is there anyone else with experience in this? What's your 2cents on this?