I have a 24" monitor. But I prefer to play on a smaller screen. I play DotA 2. So I like the screen to be smaller so I have more overview of the map.
I have started playing with scaling. So there is a black area so it makes screen around 15-16". But the mouse is behaving differently (No I am not talking about sensitivity, I am talking about odd behavior), and I can feel it. So I started to test it out.
I put a defined square on my mousepad. And started with cursor in middle of screen. And began to move my mouse over everywhere within the square, to end up on the same spot with my hand. Turns out: Cursor is now much further down, almost on bottom of screen.
I can feel this in all games.
And when I try on my laptop, the cursor feels perfect like it should be.
I tried several mice. They all behave similar on my desktop. All behave perfect on laptop. So it is my desktop that is the problem for sure.
It won't be a hardware issue (ie: USB ports). They will either work or they won't.
Movement issues would be the mouse itself. Or as you noted, the sensitivity (which can be adjusted within Windows and/or via the mouse software). Although sensitivity would affect all movement, not just one direction. As far as I know, there isn't anything on the PC side which would only affect mouse movement in one direction.
This sounds like an artifact of the scaling. Actual movement vs what you perceive on-screen is different because of the scaling. It's like when you see a movie formatted to 4:3 from the 16:9 original. It makes it look like the picture is waving.
If you really want a small display area you're better going with a true 15-16" monitor and do NOT use scaling.
Yes the monitor and are you on a separate video card (even if it's installed, are you definitely using it and not the CPU one?). Look in Device Manager. Resolution ?
EDIT: Are you overclocking? Change your mouse polling rate?
Resolution of 1080p is 1920x1080. Have you tried anything else either with the old or new monitor? "Old faithful" video card has been known to work poorly with overclocking.
I meant trying a different resolution. The last compatibility I've been able to find for your video card is Windows 7. Perhaps you can research if any problems arise with Windows 10.
If it worked, that would mean your change of either USB port or Mouse to coincide with new setting was the problem. Also change from USB2 to 3 could have affected the problem.
Tested everything we talked about. Problem is still there. I am out of ideas. And this problem is ruining my computer experience. Even clicking icons is hard. I have no chance having a fun hour of playing video games because of this. Should i Just format?
Have you tried resetting the BIOS to factory default and then configuring as needed for your hardware?
Obviously that would clear your OC as well, and while it shouldn't make a difference, maybe something else has (been) changed in the BIOS config which is affecting the mouse.
Could there be a problem with the electronics, as in the electricity from the wall?
I barely touched the power cable and the computer's power was shut off.
Seems to be a problem with either the "thing that has cables and protects against lightning strikes etc".
I did that. It feels a little better actually. But I did the same diagnostic approach and confirmed the cursor is drifting upwards to right like before.
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