• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.
  • The forums have been upgraded with support for dark mode. By default it will follow the setting on your system/browser. You may override it by scrolling to the end of the page and clicking the gears icon.

GPU-Z and CPU-Z window "rubberbanding"

lawood

lawood

Joined
Apr 24, 2022
Messages
169 (0.15/day)
System Specs
System Name lawooder
Processor 5800x3D
Motherboard B550M Aorus Elite
Cooling Arctic Freezer 34 DUO
Memory 32GB 4000Mhz CL16 (2x16GB)
Video Card(s) RTX 3070 Ti
Storage SN770 250GB/SN750 500GB/SA510 1TB
Display(s) VG279QM 1080P 280hz + VG27AQ 1440P 165HZ
Case MSI MAG Something
Audio Device(s) fiiO EK10 + HD 599
Power Supply Focus GX 750 Watts
Mouse XM1r
Keyboard Xtrfy K4
When I move GPU-Z or CPU-Z window I get this very apparent lag, like its rubberbanding. I googled and came across this:

www.techpowerup.com

GPU-Z window "rubberbanding"

Hello! I didn't have GPU-Z installed for a while but when I redownloaded it, it had a strange property - if trying to move GPU-Z window with mouse. the GPU-Z window is moving like in slow motion rubberband mode. If I move it around wor a few seconds then it takes some time to move to the final...
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com

This is exactly my issue! And by searching the replies I found a fix, when using 1k polling rate on my mouse the issue doesnt happen but if I use 2k or 8k the problem appears.

Is this a me issue? Can other people replicate this? Happens on both cpu z and gpu z, both its worse on cpu z.

This issue with polling rate is only apparent on these two apps, no problems on any other software or game.

Any ideas?
 
Intel Power Gadget has done this for me for years on many different computers (and mice). It's long been so familiar that it's simply what IPG does, like it would be weird if it didn't. I don't remember if GPU-Z does this as I'm not sure I'd even notice but I'll pay attention and see if lower polling rate fixes it.
 
Couldn't repro in a quick test, but I only have a standard wired mouse.

System in your specs, right? Anything demanding running in the background?
 
With my 1k standard mouse I also dont have any problems, but with 2k, 4k or 8k polling the issue becomes very apparent.

My system is pretty clear of bloat, this happens even with all other software turned off.
 
I had that problem with some other software, I think TeamViewer window exhibited that behavior. I don't think it's a GPUz/CPUz problem, just Windows/driver problem as pointed out in that linked thread.
GPUz window works normally here.
 
gpu z issue is very minor compared to cpu z, its still there but much less.

I also remember that I had this on CPU Z on my old system (b450 + 5600x).

Puzzling.
 
The polling consumes CPU kernel cycles, if you dont have enough power to overcome it, then will get the effect.
 
Power? What kind of power?
 
are you on the latest (mouse) firmware available on site?
 
To my knowledge yes, I own a deathadder v3 8k and sabre pro 8k and both display the same behaviour.

I dont see any other issues on my system duo polling rate, I play games that are far more demanding that cpu z and have no issues.
I actually measured my 0.1% lows when I first got 8k mice, performance is exactly the same as 1k.
Seems to me that both cpu z and gpu z dont play nice with higher polling rate for whatever reason.
 
This problem involves monitor refresh rate too.
It looks like some kind of animation is tied to both rates.
 
This probably true, the effect seems worse on my 240hz display.

On my 165hz is better but not by much.
 
This has been bothering me so I went ahead and did a clean windows install (long overdue anyway).
Did all the updates and reverted bios to default (just to be sure), cpu z displays this "bug" on both my monitors with polling rates above 1k.
1k still have issues but its much less apparent, i dusted off an old mouse with 500hz polling rate and the problem is gone completely.

I'm guessing the software doesnt like higher polling rate or a mix of high polling rate and high refresh rate.
It can also be a combinaton of AMD+Nvidia hardware that causes the issue, I really dont know.

This is not really a big issue since I'm not dragging the windows all the time and it doesnt impact the software stability at all but I figure it's good to have this info out there for people with the same issue.

edit:

video of the issue:
 
Last edited:
lawood said:
I'm guessing the software doesnt like higher polling rate or a mix of high polling rate and high refresh rate.
Click to expand...
I have a 4k polling rate and a 240hz monitor and I don’t have this issue at all
 
It could be something about AMD + Nvidia combo then?
I've had this issue on my 5600x + 1660 super build but never bothered to fix it because its not a big deal.

Any ideas to fix?
 
Try a different USB port (with a different controller)
 
Sadly I already tried that. Happens on both chipset controller and cpu controller. With 2 difference mice and 2 different monitors.
My past 5600x + 1660S system also displayed the same issue.
 
In my experience, reducing polling rate or raising refresh rate solves the problem.
For those who are not having problems, you can reduce the refresh rate to 120-60Hz, you should notice the problem and a change in the extent of the problem.
 
I wonder, do you guys mean to say that usual/other Windows programs do not get the issue?

For example, you said both CPU-Z, as well as GPU-Z are affected.

But what about other system or non-system stuff, such as AIDA64, Speccy, Core Temp, MS Word/Excel/Outlook (in their 2019 or 2021 or 365/etc version), Notepad, Notepad++, Spotify, Viber, Skype, FB Messenger, Dropbox, MS OneDrive, Google Drive and so on? :)

What about antivirus programs window, such as window of Kaspersky, Avira, AVG, NOD/ESET32/etc?
 
Last edited:
AlB80 said:
reduce the refresh rate to 120-60Hz, you should notice the problem and a change in the extent of the problem.
Click to expand...
Still nothing works fine. Work on my AMD system and my laptop as well.
 
Last edited:
Low quality post by P4-630
Fits in the category first world problems imo....
 
AlB80 said:
Ubuntu or Win?
I have never encountered such a problem with Ubuntu, but it appeared with the win10/1kHz/60Hz combination.
Click to expand...
Windows
 
Naki said:
I wonder, do you guys mean to say that usual/other Windows programs do not get the issue?

For example, you said both CPU-Z, as well as GPU-Z are affected.

But what about other system or non-system stuff, such as AIDA64, Speccy, Core Temp, MS Word/Excel/Outlook (in their 2019 or 2021 or 365/etc version), Notepad, Notepad++, Spotify, Viber, Skype, FB Messenger, Dropbox, MS OneDrive, Google Drive and so on? :)

What about antivirus programs window, such as window of Kaspersky, Avira, AVG, NOD/ESET32/etc?
Click to expand...

Only those two apps shows these problems for me personally.
Can't remember any other software displaying the same behavior.
 
lawood said:
Only those two apps shows these problems for me personally.
Can't remember any other software displaying the same behavior.
Click to expand...
Okay then, thanks for the reply. :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top