increasing your mouse's polling rate

somebody mentioned doing this in another thread and turns out my mouse's control panel has an option for doing this (from 500Hz to 1000Hz).

are there any disadvantages to doing this? would it do any damage to the mouse?

I think it's your mouse's software allowing you to change it. Only a few gaming mouses from what I hear make it this easy. If this is the case, then it won't damage your mouse but actually supports it 100%.


I'm actually having a problem where a program that's supossed to change my polling rate (usbmrs11) says I have an invalid usbport.sys file and so won't change it. Looks like it's 125hz for me :/ .

higher polling rate means less ms (delay)
So set it to 1000hz. Most gaming mouses allow you to chose that. Normal mouses can be overclocked to achieve it, but as any overclock it may end up ruining it....

Higher rate uses more CPU that's the downside but if your CPU is fast enough it shouldn't bother you at all.
Doesn't increasing the rate of one USB port increase them all?

keefy wrote:Higher rate uses more CPU that's the downside but if your CPU is fast enough it shouldn't bother you at all.
Doesn't increasing the rate of one USB port increase them all?

I think your correct. When I did it manually in vista it increased them all to 1000hz, but my mouse capped at 165mhz lmao.

I can feel the difference between 500 and 1000, 1000 is the way to go.
I cannot yo-yo nades reliably with 500 but I can with 1000, so yeah the less delay has to be better for firing faster as well.

here are some possible solutions...

http://razerblueprints.net/index.php/co ... .msg63872/

i use hidusbf. allows you to adjust only your mouse usb. pretty simple really. and gets around the service pack 3 issue that rendered other usb tweakers useless.

but i've only adjusted to 500... which reports at 498 consistantly. when i tried 1000, i was reporting at 800 ish.