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Changing that option changed a lot. I loved it. But 10.7 is a bit better at managing it than it used to be, or it feels that way to me, so I don't mind as much as I did.
Wild guess at where it might come from: 32ms divided by 4 is 0.008s which gives us 125Hz (the typical mouse sample rate). So my guess is that some form of mouse movement analysis (like mouse smoothing) is working on at least four samples (so that it can statistically mean something), rolling. Why it does so might be that 32ms is the right time to evaluate the intent of a typical human interaction with a pointer, mayb…
When working on drivers for capacitive touchscreens (of which trackpads are a pretty close sibling), we put all kinds of IIR filtering in there to smooth out the cursor and usually a variance filter to take away noise. Since those filters (esp. IIR) rely on data from previous scans, they naturally introduce a delay into the chain. Usually this is all on the sensing side and not the host side. Perhaps there's some tra…
Such a scenario would be impossible to do so close to the hardware as it would have no knowledge of the GUI. I have not even the foggiest idea if OSX does something even close to that but hey, you'll never know. It could just as well be some eager host-side smoothing to accommodate for vintage or unknown mice.
If you buy a Microsoft mouse, it comes with a driver that will make the mouse behave like it does in Windows.
Longtime Mac user here... for what it's worth, I don't know what the OP is referring to. I use both Mac and Windows regularly (home vs work), and I don't see a noticeable difference. Maybe I've just gotten used to it. Definitely isn't a problem for me.
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When you're playing a game like that you become highly attuned to the characteristics of your input device. I find the same thing happens when playing console games and the "look" stick acceleration curves are completely different between games. It is disorienting until you get your bearings and adjust to the speed and acceleration of each input system. Just as switching between Windows and OS X means switching from…
I play TF2 almost hours every day and I'm often in the top 5 players in the server when I play sniper or soldier. I play in Mac OS X and I use a Razer Deathadder 3G Spawn. No extra drivers. However, I tried wiggling the mouse pointer and I can't see a lag on my iMac, but if I grab a Finder-window and wiggle it left-right very fast I think there's actually some lag. I can't really compare TF2 to Windows since in Windo…
That would introduce about 8ms of "lag" if you're really dialled in and able to perceive it.
The reason I'm not convinced is that my old Macbook Pro running Tiger had the exact same issues, but a proprietary mouse drive called USB Overdrive X allowed me to remove the acceleration, and the mouse felt perfect. That driver apparently didn't work in Lion (or Snow Leopard), and every single script/setting/utility I could find for supposedly disabling acceleration didn't change anything except perhaps speed (sensitivity).
Longtime Mac user here... for what it's worth, I don't know what the OP is referring to. I use both Mac and Windows regularly (home vs work), and I don't see a noticeable difference. Maybe I've just gotten used to it. Definitely isn't a problem for me.
Do you use a mouse? I've never been able to notice it with a trackpad (because trackpads are inherently less precise anyway, and seldom used for gaming). It has been painfully noticeable on both Macbook Pros I've owned (one circa Tiger, the other circa Lion).
Just from anecdotal evidence from someone who can detect the lag with 3 different mice, it's not there with the trackpad.
If you buy a Microsoft mouse, it comes with a driver that will make the mouse behave like it does in Windows.
This could be great news.
Wild guess at where it might come from: 32ms divided by 4 is 0.008s which gives us 125Hz (the typical mouse sample rate). So my guess is that some form of mouse movement analysis (like mouse smoothing) is working on at least four samples (so that it can statistically mean something), rolling. Why it does so might be that 32ms is the right time to evaluate the intent of a typical human interaction with a pointer, mayb…
http://www.antigrain.com/research/bezier_interpolation/
// Assume we need to calculate the control
// points between (x1,y1) and (x2,y2).
// Then x0,y0 - the previous vertex,
// x3,y3 - the next one.