Surely you have wondered how to improve the precision of your new gaming mouse. The truth is that there is an extremely fast and simple method that allows us to improve the precision of our gaming mouse. Improving mouse precision is as easy as simply turning off a feature in Windows 10 that is natively active.
There are many different programs that allow you to improve the precision and other aspects of the mouse. We are not talking about official software from the mouse manufacturer, but about other programs of dubious origin. Also, these programs can be detected by the different anti-cheat systems of the games and we can end up banned forever.
Improve mouse precision in Windows
The truth is that Windows 10 (and also Windows 11) come with a lot of active features that are supposed to improve performance . Normally, what these predefined settings do is just the opposite, worsening the user experience. One such example is the Enhance Pointer Precision setting, which is supposed to improve mouse precision, but not always.
Supposedly this feature improves mouse precision, but it doesn’t always happen. Deactivating this function what it does is that the distance traveled by the cursor is the same as that traveled by the physical mouse.
In making Pointer Precision what it does is that the cursor moves further when the mouse movement is fast . On the other hand, when scrolling is slower, the distance traveled by the mouse is less. We speak in this case on the assumption that the mouse travels the same physical distance for both cases.
This function is interesting when we make a selection of elements that we have on the screen. The problem is that the precision is reduced, because it is difficult to get precision when interpreting how far the mouse will move. It is noticeably reduced when moving extremely quickly.
Actually this function is more focused on basic mice , such as the typical office or simple wireless mouse, it is even great for the laptop touchpad . But when we talk about mice designed to play, this function is counterproductive. Even this function does not make sense, since we can make DPI adjustment directly from the mouse or mouse management software.
How to disable Enhance Pointer Precision
We are going to explain, step by step, how you can deactivate this function. The process is really quite simple, so you shouldn’t have any problems. You can always turn this feature back on in the future if you decide to change your PC usage. The steps are the following:
- First, we must left click on the Windows icon located on the taskbar, which is on the far left
- When the menu opens, click on the Configuration cogwheel
- We will go to the Devices option
- Among the options on the left we will see Mouse , so we click on this
- Now we’ll look all the way to the right, finding Related Configuration Options. We have to click now on Additional mouse options
- A small window will open and we must go, in this, to Pointer Options
- We will see that the Improve pointer precision box is selected, so we will deselect it
- We must now hit Apply and we can close everything
