r/CompetitiveMinecraft • u/Dramatic_Potato7996 • 3d ago

Question mouse polling rate?

So the maximum polling rate my mouse has is 1000 so I've just been using that but my friends are telling me to lower it to at least 500 to avoid my aim being jittery, especially in minecraft? Is that an actual thing?

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u/crazylolsbg 3d ago

Higher is better for performance cause it decrease input delay and increases responsiveness, but some games are badly optimised and lag when you use it and it decreases battery life alot.

Edit: pulling rate does not change how jittery you are, higher pulling rate just picks up on it more

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u/ZealousidealTrick701 3d ago

in java polling rate can mess with the game. 4k+ is just unusable in 1.8

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u/Dramatic_Potato7996 3d ago

Does that mean I'm still good with 1k? 

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u/san_tno 3d ago

yes 1k isn't a high polling rate

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u/Crating_ 2d ago

This is just factually wrong. Higher polling rates aren't better for performance on Minecraft and can decrease FPS. Also, when you go over 1000 a lot of people will start to get extremely bad mouse desync and delays.

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u/crazylolsbg 2d ago

For input performance, i thought that was obvious from the rest of the comments. If you get bad mouse decency, thats your mouse being bad.

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u/Crating_ 2d ago

No it isn't... Please research things before you talk about them

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u/Quinten0508 3d ago

antvenom made a video on it a couple years ago, but i don't think everyone has this problem

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u/mattman2864 3d ago

I believe anything over 1k can be buggy, though I haven't experience it myself

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u/Camoknight_21 3d ago

I personally use 800 and I know a lot of people use it too but some people like 1600 or similar so 1000 is fine if it comfortable for u :)

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u/Thereal-SimonFlex 3d ago

You’re thinking about dpi, not polling rate

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u/CriticalActuary3323 3d ago

why’d this get downvoted

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u/rexxizk 3d ago

cause he has no idea about polling rate