Mouse stuttering on high IO load.

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[FHW]Bandi

System: Windows 10

CPU: i5-2500K

Mainboard: P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 (Latest BIOS 3802 from 2015)

GPU: MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X

2x Samsung SSDs, 5x HDDs


Since mid 2018 something strange happened. Every time when there is very high load on the SSDs or Harddrives, and my CPU is at or near 100% utilization, the mouse cursor seems to be no longer polled. It becomes very sluggish, jumps, or stops moving for seconds.


This happens for example when I open up google chrome with lots of tabs, or when I play games that depend on heavy texture streaming, like PUBG (UE4 Engine). Aiming is nearly impossible because of the mouse input.


Another user made a short clip of a similar behavior:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jId7_Oh0WdI



I tried a lot of drivers to get rid of the problem, old and new ones for mouse, usb, motherboard etc. Interestingly i have a second SATA Controller on the Board with a Marvell Chip, and it seems the problem is not happen with the marvell controller. But i am not sure, because the marvell controller is already very slow in comparison to the intel 6GB Sata Ports, so it maybe just bottlenecking elsewhere.


I Installed windows 10 1809 from sratch, and the same problem reapperead directly after the install.


I installed an older windows 10 version (1702 i think), and the problem was gone. The PC had the full performance, and the mouse was fully responsive again even under high workloads.


But after a few weeks i get the windows updates, and the problem came back. I tried to uninstall the October update, but it didnt help. I think the problem is in an older update from 2018.


I feel it has something to do with the intel SATA Controller, but am not sure if this is somehow meltdown/spectre related, because even if i disable the fix with InSpectre, the loading speeds improve, but the problem with the laggy mouse on high load didn't go away.


So gaming is not fun anymore on my PC thanks to the mouse stuttering presumably introduced by microsoft, and i don't know what else to try. Maybe someone else has a idea, i tried a lot already and i am desperate.

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