Ok so i decided to get windows 7, so far i like it, That and microsoft is just giving away beta keys. But i cant seem to change the usb mouse polling rate from 124hz to 500hz. This is actually important to me, as i'm to lazy and/or cheap to buy a new mouse, but instead i just want to make my old 1200dpi laser mouse better. This worked in xp, and i found vista tutorials but i cant find any for windows 7. So could someone send me the file and a quick how to, to change the mouse polling rate to 500hz.
There was a thread on this a couple months ago - I'm not sure anybody has found a way to do it. I'll try digging up that thread. Edit: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=284948&highlight=Polling+rate
Bump. I still haven't gotten this to work on a cheapo laser mouse. Getting it to work is actually fairly important to me. Even if i were to get a new mouse it wouldn't change the fact i need 500hz polling rate. Or even 1000hz, but 500 is ideal for me.
I changed mine to 1000 with nlite.... There's a reg file you can change it's called mouhid or something. You can alter the polling rate there but I can't remember the exact file name... EDIT: Sorry I thought you meant XP....
What does the polling rate affect & can someone explain why it's better to change this? I use an MX518 mouse & I don't have the logitech software installed. It seems to work just fine the way it is. The only thing I've ever had to adjust is the sensitivity.
The higher the rate, the less latency. 124hz is like 7-8ms. 500hz is about 2ms 1000hz is about 1ms. It's basicly the refresh rate on the mouse, If you want to see a low rate, move the mouse very slowly and it'll jittery very slightly, if you increase the rate, it refreshes alot faster. The bonus i get with it, is my accuracy in FPS, as well as some art programs, increases. high dpi + low polling rate is like a fast cpu with low cache. Pillmonster, it doesn't work for windows 7. I've tried alot of different ways, none seem to work for windows 7 64bit. I'm about to throw an email to microsoft to include such an option. If people could select their polling rate from the mouse/input device menu, it would be really helpful.
^^ its about response time of the mouse ,response time @500 is 2ms @1000 is 1 ms @125 is 7ms approx. and i have a mx518 dont try ultrapool , i tried ,i played and checked on css and it get a bit laggish while playing
Ya i just contacted MS live chat and had some guy forward the suggestion to the dev department. If enough people do this. We'll probably see an optional update that will allow us to increase mouse pulling without needing 3rd party software or some new trick.
In most cases you'd rather have a driver handle it then editing the polling rate through the usb.sys file. Some devices can be damaged by the higher polling rate.
Agreed with denial. Everything connected to the usb will have a higher polling rate, keyboard, usb sticks. Simply put: Everything you stick in an usb port. And maybe your mouse can handle it, but it might kill some of your other hardware. Still, shouldn't the vista solution work on windows 7? Try running it in windows vista compatibility mode.
There is no compatibility mode, it replaces a system file, or a driver or something. And no it doesn't. When i try, and restart the system, the mouse no longer works and i have to use the keyboard to scroll through the device manager to uninstall the mouse, and then reinstall it.
I've found what you were looking for.. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\i8042prt\Parameters Class Name: <NO CLASS> Last Write Time: 10/05/2009 - 1:40 a.m. Value 0 Name: PollingIterations Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x2ee0 Value 1 Name: PollingIterationsMaximum Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x2ee0 Value 2 Name: ResendIterations Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x3 Value 3 Name: LayerDriver JPN Type: REG_SZ Data: kbd101.dll Value 4 Name: LayerDriver KOR Type: REG_SZ Data: kbd101a.dll Value 5 Name: OverrideKeyboardIdentifier Type: REG_SZ Data: PCAT_101KEY Value 6 Name: OverrideKeyboardType Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x7 Value 7 Name: OverrideKeyboardSubtype Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0 Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\i8042prt\Parameters Class Name: <NO CLASS> Last Write Time: 10/05/2009 - 1:40 a.m. Value 1 Name: Beep Type: REG_SZ Data: No Value 2 Name: DoubleClickHeight Type: REG_SZ Data: 4 Value 3 Name: DoubleClickSpeed Type: REG_SZ Data: 500 Value 4 Name: DoubleClickWidth Type: REG_SZ Data: 4 Value 5 Name: ExtendedSounds Type: REG_SZ Data: No Value 6 Name: MouseHoverHeight Type: REG_SZ Data: 4 Value 7 Name: MouseHoverTime Type: REG_SZ Data: 400 Value 8 Name: MouseHoverWidth Type: REG_SZ Data: 4 Value 9 Name: MouseSensitivity Type: REG_SZ Data: 10 Value 10 Name: MouseSpeed Type: REG_SZ Data: 1 Value 11 Name: MouseThreshold1 Type: REG_SZ Data: 6 Value 12 Name: MouseThreshold2 Type: REG_SZ Data: : REG_DWORD Data: 0x2ee0 Value 1 Name: PollingIterationsMaximum Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x2ee0 Value 2 Name: ResendIterations Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x3 Value 3 Name: LayerDriver JPN Type: REG_SZ Data: kbd101.dll Value 4 Name: LayerDriver KOR Type: REG_SZ Data: kbd101a.dll Value 5 Name: OverrideKeyboardIdentifier Type: REG_SZ Data: PCAT_101KEY Value 6 Name: OverrideKeyboardType Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x7 Value 7 Name: OverrideKeyboardSubtype Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0
common pillmonster have a heart.... Thats like u saying, ArCElM, plz could u explain to me how to cook a curry, and me replying with, THATS EASY... look I would really love to know how to force 500hz in windows 7 lol
ArCEIM Actually that curry recipe is pretty easy to follow. Looks delicious. Except 1 problem, how do i add 1 tablespoon of Lady in Red Dress? Actually i'm pretty good in regedit. But making an executable .reg key would have been alot easier. Edit: Ok it didn't work. It did make the mouse more sensitive, but it didn't increase the polling rate. It's still 125mhz. By Sensitive i mean it increase the mouse speed, but i'm not sure if it's any more accurate. It doesn't appear to be from just moving it around. I don't have any devices that would get negative effects from an increased polling rate so an actual alteration in the rate itself is what i need. Thanks though it was worth a shot.
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=ycyb3c8n7qb download that and try, extract hidusbf, then hidusb64 (this is a modded-driver for win7) overwriting files there. idk if only works on x64 or in AMD platforms but it works for me. install hidsubf and restart pc. check with mouserate.exe its the only thing i could do. And it only increases mouse polling rate (not other usb devices) i downloaded it from somewhere in this forum, one of those long threads, and was the only way i got it working. I have it on my pc bcs its hard to remember where i found it PD: At win7 x64 you will have to use the dseo.exe to enable test mode and sign the driver(its for signing files) or use the readydriver plus utility (it makes a macro at boot that auto-select the disable signing checks, but boot is like 5seconds slower while it auto-clicks the keys, i use hibernation so np ).
for example i have razer copperhead and driver has build in pulling rate selector, will it work in win7?
The older mouserate fixes for XP and Vista dont work in Windows 7. The worse it does is make me have to reinstall my mouse. Testmode is enabled on my PC. All the HIDUSBF.sys style hacks dont work in windows 7, at least not for me. I've tried like 10 different things, so i'll wait until someone else test any others before i bite the bullet. It's just getting annoying having to test them all, have them fail, and have to reinstall my mouse. Reinstalling a mouse using just the keyboard is annoying, trust me.
it didnt for my pc too, but after downloading that custom dll it did, but it is the x64 one, so i guess you better try to find a x86 one :E. if you have to reinstall the mouse and if your are x64 it is working!, just press f8 at boot and say "Disable driver signature checks" (you can make this for me "Test mode" doesnt work neither in RTM, it did at 7100, but not now :'(, so im using the F8 way