Windows 8.1 update to reduce mouse lag while gaming

Upgrading our systems to Windows 8.1 may not have a percentage higher number of errors than any other "update" of this size, taking into account the number of machines and their diversity.

But what is certain is that, in the midst of Twitter, social networks and the blogosphere, these errors are especially visible; and require the company to be especially fast and agile in corrections.

When the mouse is life or death

In action games on a PC, Mouse and keyboard are mainly used to direct the movements of our character or team Therefore, the speed with which we move our wrist, the precision of our actions and the clarity of ideas and strategies are the things that make the difference between being alive or dying miserably with that knife between our ribs.

This becomes especially critical when we are talking about games as fast-paced in their action as Call of Duty, Counter Strike, Deus Ex, Hitman, Half Life, etc.

Thus, when incidents began to pour in that the orders made with the mouse, in these games, had an unacceptable delay, Microsoft has gotten to work and has just published a page of specific patches where it fixes this problem.

Issues have been described by Microsoft Support as:

• 2907016: Mouse input in some games scales incorrectly on high DPI devices
• 2907018: Internal key clicks and pointing sticks do not respond at or shortly after the keyboard is used

And occurs because Windows 8.1 introduced changes to information processing for low latency mouse interaction scenariosTherefore, these games respond to mouse signals differently than in earlier versions of the operating system.

For those who are experiencing this issue in other games that are not listed by Microsoft, the company posts the registry tweak to perform to get the same result as with the patch.

But you have to be careful with what you do – in itself tuning the Windows registry is quite critical – since we can apply this patch to any application or system service that uses the mouse, obtaining results Negatives such as excessive battery consumption.

In summary, for gamers on Windows 8.1 or Windows 2012 Server R2 (yes, apparently there are also gamers with work computers), this patch is essential for keep life intact.

More information | Microsoft Support