Dark Souls 3 Mouse Cursor Blinking and Mouse/Camera Lag during gameplay?

[ZeArtPit]

Okay, so I reinstalled Dark Souls 3 in a different Steam Directory, due to my computer saying missing file privileges. Everytime its running in windowed mode, the mouse cursor is always blinking between my desktop mouse cursor and the cursor in game. I do not have any customized mouse cursor that could be causing this, but its really annoying. When the game loads and everything, the game is running at 60 fps, but the camera stutters a lot when I move around in game. This all happens in windowed mode while I've also slightly noticed it in fullscreen mode. This is really annoying and I want to get this fixed as soon as possible, so please anyone help.

Here's a bit of a backstory too:

I had all of my games and everything installed, then I wanted to try the Windows 10 Creator's Update out on my computer. After I did that, this stuff started happening. I've even tried uninstalling the update to go back to Windows 10 Home, but the problems are still happening, even now.

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 10.0.14393 -> 14393.1
Model: ASUS ROG Strix GL753VD-DS71 (64-bit)
Processor: 7th generation Intel(R) Core (TM) i7-7700HQ @ 2.80GHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GDDR5 @ 4.0 BG (128-bit)
RAM: 16GB DDR4 RAM
BIOs: American Megatrends Inc. GL753VD.301, 1/6/2017
BIOs Mode: UEFI


NVIDIA Control Panel Driver Version: 376.54 -> Updated to 381.65 -> Updated to 384.94 -> Updated to 385.41

Updated via Nvidia Driver Website

High-performance NVIDIA processor

Ambient Occulsion - Not supported for this application
Anisotropic filtering - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - FXAA - Off
Antialiasing - Mode - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Setting - Use global setting (Application-controlled)
Antialiasing - Transparency - Use global setting (Off)
CUDA - GPUs - Use global setting (All)
Maximum pre-rendered frames - Use global setting (Use the 3D application setting)
Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) - Use global setting (Off)
Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration - Use global setting (Multiple display performance mode)
Power management mode - Prefer maximum performance
Shader Cache - Off
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization - Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias - Allow
Texture filtering - Quality - Quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization - On
Threaded optimization - Off
Triple buffering - Off
Vertical sync - On
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames - 1

Edit #1:
This is what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrrFaJA9Oio

It's not the recording software or XSplit for that matter. It's the game in general. I don't know how to fix this.

[manbob]

I have this problem too, still haven't figured out how to fix it, maybe try editing the what the pointer looks like? It temporarily fixed it for me.

[finnegan]

I have a similar problem with my mouse as of late. It worked fine before, now whenever I open a menu and I move my mouse around, the game drops to almost 0 fps and stutters like crazy.

[Seifer]

Originally posted by evaristo2001_ITA:

I have a similar problem with my mouse as of late. It worked fine before, now whenever I open a menu and I move my mouse around, the game drops to almost 0 fps and stutters like crazy.

have you solved it?

[finnegan]

Originally posted by Archidiácono McDonnell:

Originally posted by evaristo2001_ITA:

I have a similar problem with my mouse as of late. It worked fine before, now whenever I open a menu and I move my mouse around, the game drops to almost 0 fps and stutters like crazy.

have you solved it?

Yes, I was using a program to lock my mouse cursor on my main screen. That caused the problem, though not always.

[SanttuX]

Originally posted by evaristo2001_ITA:

Originally posted by Archidiácono McDonnell:

have you solved it?

Yes, I was using a program to lock my mouse cursor on my main screen. That caused the problem, though not always.

I know this is a old ass thread, but what program? If you remeber.

[[NG]Giuls The Original]

welcome back in 2017

[finnegan]

Originally posted by SanttuX:

Originally posted by evaristo2001_ITA:

Yes, I was using a program to lock my mouse cursor on my main screen. That caused the problem, though not always.

I know this is a old ass thread, but what program? If you remeber.

Dual monitor tools

[mcgman80]

TLDR completely. But make SURE you have all the Windows 10 junk game mode setting OFF. As well as all the XBOX type app settings for recording your gameplay and audio. They run a gigantic overhead. And in one of the latest Windows 10 updates it went into the settings and flipped them all back on (probably for spyware reasons) even if you manually shut them all off in the past. Windows is confused sometimes that it will hit your CPU with a gigantic spike just from changing the volume settings and showing the slider icon on your gameplay screen. When playing in windowed mode you are also potentially accessing your CPU integrated 3d graphics for the windows 10 background theme, while your GPU is using 3d for the game. Causing your CPU to take a gigantic hit as it tries to manage the 3d settings for your background. Going to fullscreen overrides this. So you may want to check your CPU integrated graphics settings as well.

[eefting]

FOUND THE SOLUTION! CHANGE THE SIZE AND COLOUR OF YOUR CURSOR. DON'T USE THE COLOUR BLACK.

[SanttuX]

Originally posted by eefting:

FOUND THE SOLUTION! CHANGE THE SIZE AND COLOUR OF YOUR CURSOR. DON'T USE THE COLOUR BLACK.

Also forgot to post, but lowering your DPI to around 125 / 250 also works.