why is there such a delay between my mouse and the screen???

All Discussions > Steam Forums > Off Topic > Topic Details

katiesmith714 Jan 23, 2015 @ 6:05am

spent 60 bucks to play zombies on PC, now I hate it because there's a horrible lag and i'm wondering if I buy a controller will it work better than my mouse and keyboard? Don't wanna waste more money if it's still going to suck...

< >

Showing 1-11 of 11 comments

iza Jan 23, 2015 @ 6:21am

Turn v-sync off. (100% sure it is)
Also turn mouse acceleration off. (although it doesn't cause the delay)

Kargor Jan 23, 2015 @ 6:49am

Originally posted by katiesmith714:
Don't wanna waste more money if it's still going to suck...

Nobody can tell you that. You need to do a little more investigating into the problem, like

All games, desktop, or just one game?
Wireless mouse? Does it go away with a wired mouse?
Keyboard delay too?
Turn down the graphics settings, does that help?
...

katiesmith714 Jan 24, 2015 @ 7:53am

thanks to everyone for responding, i should have prefaced my post with "I am not tech-savy at all"...how do i turn down graphics setting? and please for the love of god what is a framerate? Hmm, what else....mouse acceleration? No clue what that is, and that has nothing to do with the fact that i'm blonde or a girl, i swear.

Rumpelcrutchskin Jan 24, 2015 @ 8:17am

First of all what game did you buy and what are your PC specs, most importantly graphics card and CPU? If you dont know them then at least name and number of your PC.
You might be trying to run some latest demanding game on some junk office PC with weak graphics card or just on integrated graphics.

katiesmith714 Jan 24, 2015 @ 8:26am

black ops 2 is the game, i have an HP computer with windows 7 is that what you mean by name and number? i feel insanely stupid

Rumpelcrutchskin Jan 24, 2015 @ 8:41am

Originally posted by katiesmith714:
black ops 2 is the game, i have an HP computer with windows 7 is that what you mean by name and number? i feel insanely stupid

There are hundreds of HP PC desktops and laptops, to know what specs you have I would need the exact number of this desktop or laptop, basicly just string of numbers or letters that comes after HP in your laptop or desktop bundle name. Maybe you have some documentation or manual lying around that has that written somewhere.

katiesmith714 Jan 24, 2015 @ 9:03am

so i was able to turn down my screen res and now there is no delay. So happy, thanks to everyone. like really, super awesome

iza Jan 24, 2015 @ 9:17am

That's.. weird. But if it helped, move on haha.

Rumpelcrutchskin Jan 24, 2015 @ 9:28am

Originally posted by katiesmith714:
so i was able to turn down my screen res and now there is no delay. So happy, thanks to everyone. like really, super awesome

This means you have too weak graphics card for modern games. Best to find out what your graphics card actually is before buying some other latest games that are even more demanding then Black Ops 2.