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DigDog

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a word of advice; i am convinced that these last drivers changed my mouse settings. How, i have no idea - although this driver package does say it includes other firmware updates, i think for HDMI. I cannot find any corroborating evidence online, but two games i play regularly felt very much off in the aiming speed, and i had to turn down the sensitivity settings on both.
my mouse itself is driverless and it's not a hardware issue.
 
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but two games i play regularly felt very much off in the aiming speed, and i had to turn down the sensitivity settings on both.
Maybe they reduced the latency? Or the driver control panel contains some input latency setting that is on by default?
 

DigDog

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Maybe they reduced the latency? Or the driver control panel contains some input latency setting that is on by default?
.. why would W11 add artificial latency to my mouse?

i admit i haven't messed with my mouse settings since i stopped playing Quake, but i wouldn't expect that a video driver change things dramatically in a videgame. i know this sound stupid - but why would the mouse be tied to anything a video driver can change? this isn't the 90s anymore, it's not like stuff like "mouse speed tied to FPS" still happens.
 

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.. why would W11 add artificial latency to my mouse?

i admit i haven't messed with my mouse settings since i stopped playing Quake, but i wouldn't expect that a video driver change things dramatically in a videgame. i know this sound stupid - but why would the mouse be tied to anything a video driver can change? this isn't the 90s anymore, it's not like stuff like "mouse speed tied to FPS" still happens.
Well if the mouse cursor is rendered by the GPU than it makes sense
 
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DigDog

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1. i do not have installed the Intel control panel; i only have the driver, and the new (from previous drivers) OneAPI Level Zero. I think the name already tells you what this does.
2. i may be wrong, but i don't think mouse speed is any more tied to frame rate, on desktop or in an application. If for some reason you were getting such a bad framerate that you mouse wouldn't render, it would skip, but the computer would still keep track of the location based on the info from the sensor.

oh and if i had a low latency mode, i would want it on. i'm not a XxX*1337*Sh0tz!360 gamer anymore but i'd still prefer to have my mouse input raw.
 

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So suppose the previous default was keeping LLM off and in this driver they switched it on by default so you noticed the difference. My theory.
Likely no; remember that i recently had a RX590, moved (with some embarrassing failures) to the B580, then to W11, all without needing to change the mouse settings.
There is something inside this driver that made it change. I understand you too now have a Intel card, a A770? which means you'll use it too, see if you too notice any changes.
 

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Honestly though, would an Arc cancellation surprise anyone at this point given Intel's history and it's current "we over diversified and need to get back to basics" CEO at the helm?

TBF Arc is likely a rounding error on Intel's financials so easier to pass over by the bean counters.
 

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Honestly though, would an Arc cancellation surprise anyone at this point given Intel's history and it's current "we over diversified and need to get back to basics" CEO at the helm?

TBF Arc is likely a rounding error on Intel's financials so easier to pass over by the bean counters.
if they want inference they need dGPU or chungus SoC
 
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Lots of posts on the ARC reddit saying BF6 is nerfed on A and B series. 12900K+A750 = 100% CPU usage 👀
 
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I was playing Tom Clancy's Division 1 on my U9 185H on my Arc iGPU
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Don't mind the RTX 4060 CapFrameX is showing it as the GPU Name but it was running on my arc iGPU
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Hopefully this is the MediaTek equivalent for x86. And ARC dGPU will continue. We are drawing ever closer to the "Now all restaurants are Taco Bell" :(
I was playing Tom Clancy's Division 1 on my U9 185H on my Arc iGPU
I was pleasantly surprised how well that game ran on the A380.
 
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Not looking good for Arc.
NVIDIA will invest $5 billion in Intel’s common stock at a purchase price of $23.28 per share. The investment is subject to customary closing conditions, including required regulatory approvals.
That's very suspicious. It's like LBT asked them to buy enough stock to cover their R&D for Intel ARC!

Would make perfect sense since I bought four Intel ARCs :mad:

$5 billion is simply a drop in the bucket for Nvidia. Just a necessary expense to kill off rival silicon.

Optimistically speaking though, it could be LBT signalling to the Intel ARC team to not mess up and deliver their very best.