Hello everyone. I'm in the market for a new keyboard, and quite honestly the convenience of wireless keyboards and mice is starting to winning me over. My office at work was recently switched to wireless Dell keyboards and mice and I don't particularly feel any significant delay between these keyboards and the wired keyboard I have on my home PC (a Corsair K55). Now granted, those are all used for office work where you don't *need* them to be tight and snappy all the time, but I do happen to play Apex Legends a lot where I do need it to be reliable, so I don't know how these would perform on a game like that.
I'm specifically looking at the Logitech G613 keyboard. With the battery issue aside, would that be a good option, or should I just stick with a wired keyboard?
Thank you in advance!
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I recently purchased a wireless mechanical keyboard on Kickstarter (Keytron K2)
They say the wireless latency is 60-80 ms. Is this too slow for gaming? CS Go and LOL
In my experience non-bluetooth keyboards are barely good enough for typing much less games. ;-) The Apple wireless keyboard (which is bluetooth) is good enough for Portal. I'm waiting on L4D2 to come out to be able to test it on a proper FPS environment.
The Apple "mighty mouse" however sucks for Portal because the right click is not sensitive enough.
EDIT: After playing L4D2 on the mac for two days I can say the Mac wireless keyboard is fine for FPS games.
Are you sure that the problem is the keyboard and not the range? Try to move from your couch near to the receiver. Do you have the same problem?
This guide from eHow.com could maybe help you.
Here is a list of things you can try, I'd say when it happens again, try to resolve the lag using the fourth option to determine if it is interference or not.
Edit: You tried the package from Logitech, but you might be able to also install the driver from Lenovo. Lenovo has a support page on their website for your specific computer model. You can usually access the right page by entering your laptop's serial number on their website, or by selecting your product on the support website. Then you can go to the driver downloads and under Bluetooth you can try installing that package.
However, if it only happens when waking your computer from sleep, or you can intentionally trigger it by waking from sleep, that is definitely a software/hardware issue and not interference.
- Plugging the usb receiver into a different USB port.
- Plugging the usb receiver into a USB 2.0 port. (Usually ports that are not painted blue/red/yellow. USB 3.0 ports are typically blue)
- Unplugging/turning off other Bluetooth devices or disabling Bluetooth on your phone.
- Moving the computer and/or keyboard to a different location. (you can also just test by typing while lifting the keyboard up high, or from a few feet away.)
- Moving your wireless router or even disabling the 2.4 Ghz network temporarily to see if that resolves things.
- Turning off nearby wireless printers.
- Installing fresh batteries in your Wireless Keyboard.
Bluetooth broadcasts using the 2.4 GHz frequency, which is the same frequency used by many celluar hotspots, wifi printers, wifi cards/routers, and is, in general, a very noisy band. (Lots of potential for interference.)
If you don't have any success with these, it's possible the Bluetooth antenna has been damaged in some way.
I looked everywhere until I found someone who said BIOS. Now, no more problems. Apparently my new motherboard had initial USB stability issues.