Lag, Macros - Mouse without Borders

[lin-ycv]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.70.0

Installation method

GitHub

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Mouse Without Borders

Steps to reproduce

I'm running PT as admin and as a service on the the remote computer, but not on the local computer

For lags, I don't know how to reproduce.

For macros

1. use a mouse with macro buttons
2. configure the macros on both computers
3. press the macro button

✔️ Expected Behavior

For lags: Mouse movement to be consistent, or at the very least, not impact the local machine's mouse movement

For macros: the macro to be executed on the remote machine, or at least send the key presses of the macro

❌ Actual Behavior

For lags: Sometimes the mouse movement becomes extremely laggy, on both local and remote

for macro: macro is only executed on the main machine

Other Software

No response

Edit:for elevated prompt, needed to enable the use as a service option under Mouse without Borders, missed that.

[yuyoyuppe]

Hi @lin-ycv, thanks for the report.

What's your setup? Windows version/network connection/laptop or desktop. Lagging is typically caused by using energy-saving mode on Windows.

[lin-ycv]

Local machine is a desktop with wired Ethernet. Remote is laptop, plugged in (balanced mode), on wifi. Both on the lastest version of win10.

[LordManhattan]

I'm also experiencing lag/latency, but only one way. I have a desktop PC (5GHz WiFi), connected to a laptop (5GHz WiFi). There's no lag, and latency is basically non-existent when I'm mousing from the laptop to the desktop. However, if I mouse into the laptop from the desktop, the latency is everything between dozens of milliseconds to half a second, making it pretty much unuseable.

I'm running it as admin on both machines, on the same network, and it's running as a service on both. The network is 100 Mbit.

I'm running a VPN on both devices, but I'm using split-tunneling, so I have excluded Powertoys completely from going through the VPN. Still doesn't do much. I have also completely disabled VPN to see if that helps, but it doesn't.

[jaimecbernardo]

/dup #26306, fixed on #27229

[crutkas]

/dup https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/26306

[microsoft-github-policy-service[bot]]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!