Moving the mouse cursor in 60hz is almost unbearable now

[senttoschool]

After a month on my 16" MBP M1 Pro, I never really noticed the benefits of 120hz ProMotion. Then one day, I had to change the refresh rate back to 60hz to do some testing for an application. I immediately noticed the mouse cursor lagging. I thought there was some bug that caused MacOS to slow the mouse cursor down to 30hz or something. There is no way 60hz looks that bad, I thought. Indeed, 60hz mouse cursor movement really looks like that and it's almost unbearable. It's really hard to go back to using 60hz after using ProMotion.

I hope more applications, videos, and more importantly, Safari and Chrome get updated to 120hz soon.

 

[JohnHerzog]

safari beta 12.2 has 120

 

[Hessel89]

The Magic Mouse only has a polling rate of 90. So the movement of your Magic Mouse is not synced to the refresh-rate of your screen. That's why you're experiencing a lag. At 120hz it's just a little less noticeable.

 

[senttoschool]

The Magic Mouse only has a polling rate of 90. So the movement of your Magic Mouse is not synced to the refresh-rate of your screen. That's why you're experiencing a lag. At 120hz it's just a little less noticeable.

Not sure what you're talking about. I don't use Magic Mouse.

 

[ahurst]

Since all the other screens I own are 60 Hz, I’ve deliberately set my 14” MPB’s display to a fixed 60 Hz so I don’t spoil myself!

I turn it back to 120 Hz for movies and shows though, native 24p without the classic 3:2 pull down judder is really nice.

 

[alchemistics]

I share the experience. Going from 60hz to 30hz felt so not native and inefficient.

Now my LG 5k feels stuttery at 60hz. I wanted to get a 6k XDR but I probably will postpone the purchase until the next Gen.

It kind of seems like a minor thing but honestly I don‘t want 60hz anymore.

 

[Andropov]

Since all the other screens I own are 60 Hz, I’ve deliberately set my 14” MPB’s display to a fixed 60 Hz so I don’t spoil myself!

I turn it back to 120 Hz for movies and shows though, native 24p without the classic 3:2 pull down judder is really nice.

Disabling ProMotion and enabling a fixed frame rate also makes the display unable to lower the refresh rate to save battery when viewing non-60fps content, though.