Can a motherboard affect mouse performance?

Xondervul

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I ask because recently I purchased a new mouse; a SteelSeries Rival 300. Great mouse so far. The reason I purchased a new mouse is because the old one I had; a Redragon Centrophorus, felt jittery and had issues with precision aiming. (Basically, if I tried aiming at a small target in the distance, my crosshairs/ironsight would keep jilting passed it side-to-side, as if I was using an analog stick to aim at it. Really annoying. I thought the mouse just had a bad sensor or something. But now with the Rival 300 mouse, aiming seems a whole lot better, but there still seems to be somewhat of an issue with precision aiming. Still, it's a lot smoother than the Redragon mouse.

Now, here's where the issue comes into play...I tried using the Reddragon mouse on an older desktop that I have. It's a Compaq CQ5600f with an M2n68-LA motherboard. An Athlon II x3 460, GTX 750ti, 4GB DDR2 RAM and Windows 10 Pro. I played some STALKER Call of Pripyat and the Redragon mouse feels A LOT smoother than it did on my main gaming rig. Why? How?!


Here are the specs to my main gaming rig, in case anyone is wondering.

ASUS Z97-E/USB3.1
i7 4790k (Stock clock)
16GB DDR3
GTX 980
Windows 10

Also, I've reinstalled Windows 3 times on this machine already, so I doubt it's a driver issue. But I don't know. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
Actually it is a driver issue. Have you checked with your mouse manufacturers site for the latest drivers? Does your mobo maker list the mouse as compatible or is there a BIOS update for your mobo?
 


Have you checked with your mouse manufacturers site for the latest drivers?

No I did not. I assumed Windows installed the latest drivers as it does with any of my other mice.

Does your mobo maker list the mouse as compatible

What? Seriously??? It's a SteelSeries Rival 300! Pretty sure those are quite common these days.

is there a BIOS update for your mobo?

I don't think so. I updated the BIOS a couple years ago. I just checked and I'm still using the current BIOS. Version 0701