Saturday, 26 October 2013
The recently released Windows 8.1 update is causing problems for some gamers. According to reports, gamers using the latest version of Windows are experiencing
various annoying performance issues affecting their mice. Mouse lag and
cursor jumping is affecting games which “don't use Raw Input (or DirectInput, which is more-or-less the same thing) for reading the mouse,” according to a Reddit thread. Meanhile AMD has boasted of better APU performance in Windows 8.1.
Some of the games most severely affected by this newly introduced mouse lag problem include popular titles including - Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Metro 2033 and STALKER: Call of Prypiat. These three are said to be “close-to unplayable” by the original Reddit poster. Reports say that the hugely popular Call of Duty series of games are also affected by this mousing problem.
There are a few ways to fix some of the affected games to improve performance and get your mouse response back to 100 per cent again. A general fix is to use the Windows program properties compatibility mode. Set the program for Windows 8 compatibility with the option ‘Run this program as administrator’ ticked. Also tick the ‘Disable scaling on high DPI settings’ option. Some other games have built in configuration menu items or command codes to switch to raw input. STALKER: Call of Prypiat can be freed of Windows 8.1 mouse lag be pressing the tilde key (~) and typing ‘input_exclusive_mode 0’.
Some of the games most severely affected by this newly introduced mouse lag problem include popular titles including - Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Metro 2033 and STALKER: Call of Prypiat. These three are said to be “close-to unplayable” by the original Reddit poster. Reports say that the hugely popular Call of Duty series of games are also affected by this mousing problem.
There are a few ways to fix some of the affected games to improve performance and get your mouse response back to 100 per cent again. A general fix is to use the Windows program properties compatibility mode. Set the program for Windows 8 compatibility with the option ‘Run this program as administrator’ ticked. Also tick the ‘Disable scaling on high DPI settings’ option. Some other games have built in configuration menu items or command codes to switch to raw input. STALKER: Call of Prypiat can be freed of Windows 8.1 mouse lag be pressing the tilde key (~) and typing ‘input_exclusive_mode 0’.
