Input Lag: The Hidden Metric
"Sluggish controls" or "Heavy movement" are often not the game's fault, but a result of high System Latency.
Click-to-Photon Latency
- Mouse Processing: 1-8ms
- USB Polling: 1-0.125ms
- Render Queue: The biggest bottleneck
- GPU Render: 2-10ms
- Display: 2-10ms
If your total latency exceeds 50ms, the game starts to feel disconnected from your inputs. 60Hz monitors add a baseline 16.6ms of delay, making it hard to evaluate a game's true responsiveness.
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