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Ok, so I hadn’t installed the Creative drivers or software yet, it wouldn’t be fair to talk about a possible flaw in something when I haven’t yet installed it properly. So I popped in the CD and it installed the creative application, a very painless process I must say. In the software there is an option to change the USB polling rate, the faster the polling rate, the quicker the response from the mouse. USB is capable of work at a polling rate of 1000Hz (1ms response time), most mice are run by Windows XP at around 125Hz (8ms response). Increasing the polling rate is a popular tweak for many gamers to get better response. By default, Creative have set the polling rate in their software to the USB maximum of 1000Hz for the best response.
Changing the polling rate down to 250Hz made a substantial difference to the operation of the mouse and the problems I mentioned before, but they were definitely still there and I was very disappointed, and certainly expected more from a high-end gaming mouse, But anyway, moving right along…
