mouse delay only when playing games | Shadow (ENG) | Page 1

naive dawn Jan 25, 2026, 1:51 AM

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i just got shadowpc and ive been experiencing a ton of mouse delay only when i load up a game i have 35ms delay idk if its good enough

modest lodge Jan 25, 2026, 11:33 AM

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lower your shadow bitrate, do speedtest, play wired instead than using wireless, provide more details : https://discord.com/channels/460948857304383488/1210660461457051758

naive dawn Jan 25, 2026, 8:09 PM

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modest lodge lower your shadow bitrate, do speedtest, play wired instead than using wireless,...

I’ve noticed it’s only happening on overwatch, currently running on 35 ms latency, 15mb bandwidth, and I’m not running ultra high settings but Overwatch also has an issue with smart cursor where it shoots my camera all over the place, and if I unlock it I get a ton of extra delay + the dpi goes all the way down

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Every other game has no issue it feels like 35ms of delay if you even feel it at all it’s specifically Overwatch, going to test it on more today to see if it might just be some games yes others no

modest lodge Jan 25, 2026, 8:11 PM

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Local machine details ?

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Mouse details ? Configured polling rate ?

naive dawn Jan 25, 2026, 9:01 PM

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modest lodge Local machine details ?

Local machine: i5 9400h, gtx 1650, 8gb ram, wifi 5
Mouse: pulsar x2h mini wireless 1khz

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Sorry for the late reply

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Usbhid forwarding doesn’t work with the mouse either

modest lodge Jan 25, 2026, 9:04 PM

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It’s normal it’s for users with <30ms

naive dawn Jan 25, 2026, 9:04 PM

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Gotcha

modest lodge Jan 25, 2026, 9:04 PM

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Well try to reduce polling rate

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May also try while I’m at it to set ffmpeg as decoder in settings and make sure if it’s laptop that GPU is set to maximum performance

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Mouse need to be locked/smart mouse enabled when playing fps games

naive dawn Jan 25, 2026, 9:07 PM

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The local device is as debloated and optimized as possible and some registry tweaks too but I’ll swap the decoder

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Set the decoder to ffmpeg, gonna try lowering the polling rate on the mouse

naive dawn Jan 25, 2026, 9:10 PM

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modest lodge Mouse need to be locked/smart mouse enabled when playing fps games

I’ve also noticed it really only happens on overwatch, tried 3 other games with settings completely cranked and I didn’t notice any serious latency at least compared to Overwatch, it would bring my dpi to a crawl and noticeably feel like 5x the delay

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I do have my bitrate set to 50, not really sure if that’s optimal but I saw another user having it set to 50 and just copied what worked

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