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Reduce mouse lag

By Denilson Sá

Improve gameplay! Reduce mouse lag! Increase your mouse responsiveness! Precisely aim your enemies!

How to do that? Just disable VSync!

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23 Mar, 2013 @ 6:45pm

31 Jul, 2013 @ 5:17pm

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Disable VSync (in-game option)

Disable vsync (NVIDIA Control Panel - not needed anymore)

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Disable VSync (in-game option)

Go to Options → Video settings → VSync = OFF

Just that, easy enough!

This in-game option has been added in the 2013-04-04 update.

Disable vsync (NVIDIA Control Panel - not needed anymore)

Duke Nukem 3D Megaton Edition has vsync enabled by default, and has no in-game option to disable it. A game update on 2013-04-04 added an in-game setting for VSync, so you don't need to use the NVIDIA Control Panel anymore.

As consequence of VSync, there is severe mouse lag. There is a quick and solution for that, if you have a NVIDIA card.

Go to NVIDIA Control Panel, by right-clicking on the desktop or on the nvidia icon at system tray, or by finding it inside Windows Control Panel.
Go to 3D Settings → Manage 3D settings.
Go to the second tab: Program Settings.
Select a program to customize, most likely you will click on "Add" button and select "duke3d.exe" from the list.
Scroll down the settings list, find Vertical sync and select Off.
Enjoy!

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kn00tcn 26 Apr @ 9:05pm

for those that still want vsync, use rtss to cap the fps to 60 and the lag is greatly reduced (also happens to other usually older games that dont cap themselves properly)

Framzan 21 Jul, 2015 @ 9:01pm

I got a mouse problem a couple days ago, i thought my mouse was was starting to go through wear and tear, which aiming was quite annoying. That happened until i looked under my mouse and noticed a piece of hair sticking to the bottom of my mouse crossing the laser beam XD.

Kyle07 10 Nov, 2014 @ 2:15pm

Good and important guide! no shit!
I found it out by myself today, but with a lot of luck. I always thought this issue depends to the FPS Lock. But I was wrong

StinkDiver 25 Mar, 2013 @ 7:52pm

Thank god for this! Was driving me so nuts i refused to play the opengl version and have been using the classic instead.

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