Windows 10: How do I fix mouse freezing while in a game?

For the past 2 months or so I've had this repeated problem while playing any game no matter how strenuous it is on my GPU where it simply freezes in place for a second and then goes back to normal. This happens anywhere from every 10 minutes to once every 30 seconds. I've searched online through several forums and tried these methods of fixing the problem:- Running a DISM to restore PC health- Uninstalling mouse drivers and reinstalling- Disabling any settings regarding my mouse such as cursor trails, scrolling while inactive, and precision- Defragging my hard drives- Disabling hardware accele

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Computer and mouse freeze

Hi

There are several reasons that could have cause your keyboard and mouse to freeze. To know more about the issue, we will ask some questions to help us:

• Were there recent changes made before the issue occurred?
• What are the steps that you've done so far to know where the issue is coming from?

Meanwhile, we suggest that you refer to this article:
Mouse, touchpad, and keyboard problems in Windows for us to check all setting needed to help us in resolving your issue.

Let us know about the update.

 

Mouse Freezing need help pls.

Hi Ephraim,

User profile corruption can cause issues with certain devices, including your optical mouse, in
Windows 10. To better assist you, we need the answers to the following questions:

• Aside from changing USB ports, did you use a different mouse to see if the same issue will occur while playing games?
• Have you tried checking the manufacturer's website for updated mouse drivers for
  Windows 10?

In the meantime, we suggest creating a new user on your computer to see if your mouse still freezes while using a different local account. To do this, simply follow the steps in this

article.

Regards.

 

my mouse is freezing my valorant game then causes it to close

Hi Natasha. I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

If it's happening with another mouse then we need to troubleshoot the game freezing first.

1) Try these fixes for Windows 11 Games freezing:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

2) If none of those help then you can go over these fixes for mouse freezing:

https://www.maketecheasier.com/fixes-mouse-free...

https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-mouse-free...



3) If nothing else helps then Look over this gold standard Clean Install which includes everything that works best in Windows and is better than any amount of money can buy: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

The reason I suggest this is that no one of millions who have followed exactly this specific install has ever come back with further problems that I've seen.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back, I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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