Tuesday, July 18th 2023

Windows 11 23H2 Update Promises Reduced Stuttering in Games

The latest update for Windows 11 appears to bring good news for gamers, as Microsoft is said to have fixed an issue related to stuttering in games that's related to certain gaming mice. The mice in question are mice that support a "high gaming report rate" which is pretty much all higher-end gaming mice today, regardless of manufacturer. What's worse, we're not talking 8000 Hz mice here, but a polling rate of 1000 Hz was enough to trigger the stuttering in some games.

It's unclear if this affected all games, or only some games, but according to Windows Latest, Microsoft has optimised the Windows input stack to be able to handle high report rate mice which is said to have been done by improving "the performance by throttling and coalescing background raw mouse listeners and capping their message rate." As such, the 23H2 update for Windows 11 will become something of a must install for anyone that's gaming on Windows 11, at least if you haven't lowered the polling rate on your mouse.
Source: Windows Latest
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3 Comments on Windows 11 23H2 Update Promises Reduced Stuttering in Games

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Suspecto
Interesting, I wonder what they have broken or "improved" in Win11, cos I have no issues like that in Win10.
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ZoneDymo
They accomplish this by completely blocking Unreal 4 based games from running on Windows 11
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