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    Mouse Lag With D3100 Dock

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by music_man185, Jan 3, 2016.

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    music_man185 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm using the Dell D3100 docking station with my xps 13. Very often, I experience a great deal of mouse lag/mouse freezing. The mouse will go from acting normal to moving very slowly or not at all. It always clears up, but is very annoying. Sometimes when it freezes, I can move the mouse repeatedly for 5-10 seconds before the mouse ever moves on screen. I've read of others having this problem. Is there a fix for this?
     
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    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    I'll bet the problem is that the video output on the D3100 dock is what is slow. It's a USB 3.0 docking station. And the behavior you described is what you would expect when you're outputting high-resolution video through a USB 3.0 docking station.
     
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    music_man185 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is there a fix to this? It is extremely frustrating when I'm moving the mouse, but it's either frozen for several seconds on screen or moves at a snails pace and jumps all over the screen
     
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    The fix is, stop using the D3100 to output video. Connect video outputs directly to your laptop, and the video lag will go away. Either that, or just learn to live with it.

    Sorry to say, but there isn't much to "fix.". The USB 3.0 video output of working as expected, so not much can me find to improve it.

    Edit: with the exception of making sure that you are using the latest video drivers for that D3100 dock. If you aren't running the latest drivers, try updating the drivers. But that's about it.


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    kent1146, Jan 4, 2016
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