**NEW Mouse Tweaks (2026) – Lower Input Delay & Better Aim! — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Optimize your mouse settings and Windows for lower input delay and better aim with Synez's detailed 2026 tweaks guide.

## Key Takeaways

- Mouse acceleration and filtering in Windows add input delay and inconsistency; disabling them improves aim.
- Optimal DPI is around 1600 with polling rates of 1000 or 2000 Hz for smooth, consistent mouse input.
- Disabling mouse power saving and using a custom power plan enhances mouse and system responsiveness.
- Proper USB port selection on the motherboard is crucial for maximum mouse performance.
- Laptop users should be cautious as disabling acceleration affects trackpad functionality.

## What the video covers

- The video addresses common mouse input issues like acceleration, filtering, and inconsistent polling rates that cause aim problems.
- Synez provides step-by-step instructions to optimize mouse software settings, including DPI, polling rate, and disabling unnecessary features.
- He emphasizes setting DPI around 1600 and polling rate at 1000 or 2000 Hz for best performance and consistency.
- Windows mouse acceleration and filtering are disabled via registry tweaks to achieve true 1:1 input, improving aim precision.
- The guide warns laptop users about disabling mouse acceleration as it affects trackpad functionality.
- Instructions include disabling mouse driver power saving to maintain consistent performance.
- A custom power plan optimized for desktop CPUs (especially X3D series) is provided to enhance overall system and mouse responsiveness.
- Users are encouraged to join Synez's Discord for access to tweak files and support.
- The video covers proper USB port selection to ensure maximum mouse data throughput.
- Synez offers troubleshooting help and customization advice for different mouse brands and software.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction to common mouse issues
2. 00:42 How Windows and mouse settings add input delay
3. 01:19 Accessing tweak files and Discord community
4. 01:49 Configuring mouse software settings
5. 02:22 Recommended DPI and polling rates
6. 02:56 Disabling Windows mouse acceleration and filtering
7. 03:30 Running registry tweaks and warnings for laptop users
8. 04:28 Disabling mouse driver power saving
9. 04:59 Importing and applying custom power plan
10. 06:13 USB port selection for optimal mouse performance

Answers

## Questions about this video

Why should I disable mouse acceleration and filtering in Windows?

Disabling mouse acceleration and filtering removes Windows' interference with raw mouse input, resulting in true 1:1 movement and more consistent, precise aiming.

What DPI and polling rate settings are recommended for gaming?

A DPI of around 1600 and a polling rate of 1000 or 2000 Hz are recommended for most gamers to achieve smooth and responsive mouse input without stutters.

Can I apply these tweaks on a laptop?

It is not recommended to run these tweaks on a laptop because disabling mouse acceleration and filtering will disable the trackpad functionality; an external mouse is required if you do.

## Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown

00:00

Speaker A

The common gamer. Here we observe him in his natural habitat. He has been in this position for 9 hours. Notice the mouse.

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3,200 DPI. Windows sensitivity at 6. Mouse acceleration enabled. He does not know. Watch what happens when he attempts to track a moving target.

00:21

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The aim floats. The crosshair overshoots. And in this moment, the gamer will do what his species always does. He blames the game.

00:30

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Guys, it's not the servers. It's the fact that your mouse is running through three layers of Windows math before it ever even reaches your game. Mouse acceleration, mouse filtering, and polling rates that your USB ports [music] aren't even keeping up with.

00:42

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Sensor settings that you never touched because you didn't even know the software existed. All of those things are adding delay and inconsistency between your hand and your crosshair.

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Today, we're going to fix all of that. Every setting, every Windows side thing, and every mouse thing. By the end of the video, your aim is going to feel like it's welded to your hand. Fair warning though, some of you guys are going to

01:00

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fix this and realize the mouse was never the problem. Wow. Wow. Wow. So, the first thing you guys are going to want to do is join my Discord. The link will be in the description. Once you're in my

01:08

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Discord, head over to the YouTube tweaks channel here on the left. And then once you're here, find the file named New Mouse Tweaks 2026-S. [music] This file is going to be in here by the time I upload the video. This one's for a

01:19

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different video, Make Your PC Feel Amazing. If you guys want to go watch that video, too. But as soon as I upload this video, like I said, I'm just going to drag and drop this in here. It will

01:26

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be in a zip. So, make [music] sure you extract the zip. That way, the file looks just like this. Once you have it, open it up and then we're going to go through everything together in here. So, the first thing I want to check with you

01:34

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guys is your mouse software. So, make sure you find the mouse software that relates to your mouse. For example, if you're using a Finalmouse, this one will be for you. In my case, I'm using a Super Strike. So, I'm going to use the

01:43

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Logitech G Hub software since they make the Super Strike. So, this is just going to make sure that we're doing the correct settings within our software.

01:49

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So, we're going to go through this first. If you guys are using Logitech, you guys are going to follow along exactly with me. But if you're not using Logitech, the logic is basically going to be the same. So don't worry. So I'm

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going to go ahead and download this file here. And once I have it, I'm going to open it up. [snorts] And like I said, your guys' is going to look a little bit different if you're not exactly on

02:02

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Logitech, but the logic is going to be the same. So if your software has multiple profiles or slots, I would get rid of them all and just make sure it's only on one. And then what I'd recommend doing for your DPI is setting it

02:12

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anywhere from 800 to 1,600 [music] DPI. What we found best is 1,600. That's going to be the sweet spot for 90% of people. There's already benchmarks and data, tons and tons and tons of videos on YouTube showing this. [music] or

02:22

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1,600 is going to be the sweet spot for you guys. One thing I would like to note for the polling rate is I'd recommend you guys just stick to 2,000. [music] 4,000 is going to be okay for most

02:29

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people. 8,000 not going to be okay for pretty much anybody. [music] If you guys do 4 8K, you guys will find out you're getting stutters, less consistent FPS, and it can even affect input delay as well. We really want to make sure we're

02:39

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sticking to 2,000 or 1,000 because that's what modern CPUs can really handle right now. So, in my case, I'm going to lock this over to 2,000. Now, if you guys are on a Super Strike, you guys can use my

02:48

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settings here for the actuation point and rapid trigger stuff. This is going to be a little bit more preference, but this mouse is a little bit unique. So, feel free to test around with it. Now, if you guys have a particular question

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or if your mouse software has more settings than mine, then make sure to leave a comment and I can let you guys know what to configure based on what settings you may have. Some people will have something called like motion sync

03:04

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or any setting that has the word sync in it. You basically just want to turn that off. Typically, with these mouse software, they may try to force some kind of sync settings and stuff. And really, you just want the raw input for

03:13

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your mouse. That's going to feel the most clean and the most consistent for you. So, once you have that set up, make sure to save your profile if you made any changes, and then you can close out of your software, whichever one that may

03:21

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be. Then we're going to go over to the Windows mouse optimization here. And then I do have a warning in this file that says don't run if you're on a laptop. Basically, the reason why you don't want to run this on a laptop is

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because it is going to completely disable mouse filtering and mouse acceleration through Windows. And that way you're getting true one-to-one input. You don't have Windows trying to apply any kind of acceleration or filtering on [music] your mouse. This is going to

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make your mouse feel so much more smooth and so much better overall. I'm going to open up these files real quick for you guys. They're completely open source.

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You guys can see exactly what they're doing. Some of these are calling on the same paths. We're just hitting them in two different areas and in two different ways. But we really just want to make sure that this gets done because this is

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basically the most important thing you can do. The reason why you don't want to do this on a laptop is because a trackpad does need mouse acceleration and mouse filtering to work. So if you're on a laptop and you do want to

04:03

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run this, that's completely fine. Just know that your trackpad will stop working. So you're going to need an external mouse to use it. Once you guys are ready to run this, all you have to do is right-click on this one, click run

04:11

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as administrator. It's going to say operation completed successfully, and then automatically close out. For this one, all you have to do is double-click on it, click yes, click okay, and that registry tweak will be applied on the

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next reboot. So, now that we have this configured, we're good to go back. Then go to disable mouse driver power saving.

04:24

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Then you're going to see a bat in here that literally just says disable mouse power saving. Go ahead and copy this.

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You can press Ctrl + C or right-click and click copy. Then go to shell startup and paste it in here. Disable mouse power saving. Anything in this folder is going to start up when your computer starts up. So that way when you turn on your

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computer for the first time, this bat is going to run, which is of course open source. And all this is doing is finding the mouse driver and then it's going to disable power saving on it. So once you're done with that, you can go back

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to the file and then go back. Next thing we're going to do is import a power plan. I have a bat in here, which again is completely open source. All this is doing is automatically grabbing my public power plan. Having a good power

04:55

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plan is going to make a night and day difference, not only for your mouse, which is overall for your whole system.

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But of course, this is going to affect how your mouse feels as well, and that's why I wanted to include it. So when you're ready to run this, all you have to do is run it as an administrator.

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Going to say importing science power plan. Just go ahead and go to edit power plan here. Go to power options and make sure your selected power plan is mine.

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This power plan is completely safe for X3D CPUs and basically every CPU on the market. Unless it's a dual CCD CPU or if you're on a laptop, I wouldn't recommend using this power plan either. But for example, 7800 X3D, 9800 X3D, etc. All

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these CPUs are going to be perfect for this power plan as we

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quality image here, but my point will get across. Basically, you want to make sure that your mouse is plugged into the correct USB ports on your motherboard.

05:40

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So, if you guys' mouse is plugged in into the front of your case on your [music] computer, that's absolutely terrible. You want to unplug it from there and plug it into the back. And then on top of that, if you're plugging

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it into the back, you want to make sure it's into the red or blue ports on the motherboard. So, this motherboard, for example, like I said, I know it's really blurry, but just bear with me. This one has blue and red ports, and there's no

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gray ones. But if you guys have gray ones, make sure you're staying away from those. Gray means it's USB 2.0. Blue and red means it's USB 3.0, which is newer and much faster. Red is the best. This is actually using a newer 3.0 0 version

06:10

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and this one's called super speed 10 whereas blue is just super speed. So if you guys are really able to make sure you plug it into the red ports on your motherboard. That way you're getting the maximum speed, the maximum performance

06:20

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out of your motherboard and your USB ports and of course your mouse. So once you guys have your USB port set up good, we're now going to run into the mouse tester here. This software may be a little confusing. So I'm going to try to

06:28

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make it as easy as possible and walk you guys through step by step exactly what to do. The reason why we're doing this is we're going to test how consistent our mouse is actually looking. What I'd recommend doing is rebooting your

06:37

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computer. So, because some of the things we've done in this video already require a reboot to apply. Please reboot your computer and then follow along with the rest. So, what you're going to do is open up mouse tester here. And like I

06:46

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said, this software is going to show us how consistent our mouse really is. And then you need to match the CPI with what DPI you're using on your mouse. So, for example, I set my DPI to 1600 earlier.

06:55

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I'm going to make sure it's on 1600 here. Then, what you're going to do is click collect. And it tells you what to do here on the instructions. It says press and hold the left mouse button, move the mouse, and then release. What

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I'm going to do is start holding the left mouse button. So I'm left clicking now. You see that it says collecting.

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Then I'm just going to move in circles. So I'm going to do like five circles here. And I'm still holding down the left mouse button the whole time. And then I'm now releasing. So once you release, it's going to say it saved the

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data here. And then all you're going to do to analyze the data is click plot.

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And then plot type down here. Change this to interval versus time. Basically what you want here is this graph to just be as flat and as low as possible. If you guys have data kind of all over the

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place or it's spiking up and down, up and down, up and down like crazy and your guys' mouse is pretty misconfigured and you kind of want to tinker on the DPI, the pulling rate or your mouse software setting some more. One spike

07:39

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like this in the beginning isn't anything to be concerned about, especially if you waited to start it like I did. But basically, what you want to do is exactly what I did. Just do like maybe 5 to 10 circles and then plot

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the data and then you want to take a look at the results. If [music] you guys aren't getting good results from this software though, like I said, just let me know in the comments and I can help you guys out. But if you guys want

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hands-on in a personalized [music] session where we can help you out super in-depth, go to our website here, science.net. We're going to take care of everything for you guys. That way you guys can have full peace of mind that

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you're getting the [music] maximum performance out of your computer and all of your components like your mouse, keyboard, and things like that. If you guys have any questions, [music] just leave a comment down below. Subscribe to the video and let me know what you want

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to see next. Please like the video if it did help you out. And other than that, you guys have a great rest of your day.

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Peace.

Topics: mouse tweaks input delay aim improvement DPI settings polling rate Windows mouse optimization disable mouse acceleration power plan gaming mouse settings Synez

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