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It won't make or break your interface but always try to minimize cognitive load.Another reason for this post is that visitors, friends, and even family are always asking me which apps I use for specific tasks. The animated cursor should create small or insignificant amount of cognitive load. That is why I would advice you to use the non-lag version of the cursor, in order to prevent violations of sensory expectations, thus more cognitive load. It expects to see a character immediately after pressing a button. The brain is getting confused when a person types a character and it appears after some small delay. In the real physical world there is no lag in the mapping between the different senses (auditory, visual and spatial).

For example, when the participant moves its head and the image in the VR is not updated instantly our brain is confused because of violated expectations, and motion sickness or VR sickness is induced. Also, virtual reality motion sickness articles might be very useful in your case because the motion sickness is triggered by the lack of mapping between participants movement and the lag of visual/auditory feedback. Therefore it might be better to look for visual processing related academic articles. The only difference that I can detect between animated and non-animated cursor is the lag. I don't think we will find one because even if animated cursor has more cognitive load/workload it would be minimal, thus very hard to detect significant differences. I couldn't find a study about cursor animation workload. In today's world if something start / stops abruptly, it feels awkward. So, it also has become an un-noticed trend which in a way, is reducing cognitive overload and people are now used to it. If we look around us everything in digital world is animated - starting from the alarm clock to switching off a computer/phone. It's not only Microsoft who has taken the advantage of GPU Acceleration, but also Adobe, Google, Apple and many more along with all Game Developing Organizations. Use the device-independent bitmap (DIB) engine, do support them. The type of cursor used on a particular computer systemДepends on the system's display.

#Tweak smoothcursor only working sometimes drivers#

In last couple of years the external graphics drivers are playing a huge role in improving system performances by GPU Accelerated Computing Systems.Д¬ursors can be either monochrome or color, and either static orДЄnimated.

I have not tested out these solutions, so my recommendations may work in theory but fail out in the wild, but I believe they are worth a try. Proposed solution when typing is too fast:

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The system can slightly blur or fade out the cursor whenever typing is too fast, then remove the blur and restore full opacity as it corrects the position.Д¬urrent appearance of text when typing is too fast: In this instance, whenever the system detects that the typing speed is way too fast for the cursor to keep up, it can smoothly animate the visibility of the cursor. Solution B: Add a fade-out and fade-in effect This will make it look better as the the cursor will APPEAR stay ahead of the last letter typed. Shorter animation duration means less distance to compensate for. This will help shorten the animation duration. This could be achieved by compromising on the smoothness of the animation curve to make it more linear. Solution A: Improve the animation-time of the cursor With animation disabled: Cursor motion is brisk and quite retro really. This could present a huge problem for the user typing large volumes of text. However as one types too fast it creates the illusion that the system is slow to respond due to the cursor somehow lagging behind resulting in an ugly scenario where it appears over the typed text briefly.

With animation enabled: Cursor movement is very smooth and is a delight to look at. You can read up on what the Nielson Group had to say about this here: Optimisation of response times is quite a nightmare and will often require extensive tests to be carried on users to reach any conclusion. The first is the visible delay between the instance typing stops and the cursor moves, the second is that instance where the cursor appears above the text.