[2.0.41] Mouse freezes / stutters while game runs smoothly

[NorekBorek]

Hello engineers,
after a couple of years, I decided to come back for space age.
Unfortunately, I am now plagued by very annoying mouse freezing / stuttering.
It happens in main menu (with background simulation) as well as in the first tutorial mission (and probably all other game modes).
When I attempted fixing it myself, I mostly moved the mouse in circles in the main menu to see if any fix worked (they didn't).
I'm adding a Videoclip to demonstrate.

The stuttering mostly is as follows: The cursor would freeze for quite exactly one second in place, then reappear where it would have ended. It would then continue moving normally for a split second and go into a one second freeze again. Sometimes it's just one freeze, sometimes up to five in a row. It would then run smoothly for a couple of seconds before doing the same.
Apparently, clicks are also not registered during a freeze.

All animations / gameplay in the background seem to continue smoothly.

The mouse is an LG G203.
other specs:
Win 11
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD 6600 graphics card
16 GB RAM

I remember I had a different LG mouse and graphics card when I last played Factorio years ago, I didn't have this problem then.
Factorio is the only game giving me this specific issue.
I tried turning off all graphical toys in the graphics menu, to no avail.
I updated my graphics driver just today, that also didn't change anything.
I also downloaded the LG app to play around with DPI and sampling rate, but there was no obvious change.

Thanks in advance for any attempt of help.

[pioruns]

Try resetting all Radeon settings to default if you haven't already.

And you can try the following:
Create a new Windows profile, log in, and launch Factorio there. To make sure it's not your user profile configuration (antivirus, overlays, drivers or whatever).
Next thing, you can check built-in Windows tool: Event Viewer (system tab) for hardware errors, especially storage media errors. HDD can cause mouse to get stuck/lag if system is hard-locked waiting for a response from I/O. It can happen when storage media has problems or RAM is full and system is busy swapping to virtual memory.

[NorekBorek]

I just plugged the mouse into another USB slot and that seems to have solved it.
I feel a bit stupid for not having tried this earlier, but I also don't understand why that is a thing.
If the problem reoccurs, I'll report it here. Otherwise, this case seems closed.

[eugenekay]

I just plugged the mouse into another USB slot and that seems to have solved it.
I feel a bit stupid for not having tried this earlier, but I also don't understand why that is a thing.
If the problem reoccurs, I'll report it here. Otherwise, this case seems closed.

Different USB port pairs can have different Speeds (USB2 vs USB3), or be affected by nearby devices like a Printer or Webcam. You can sometimes find more info in Windows Event Viewer (or dmesg on Linux) when un/plugging.

Good Luck!