Screen resolution related to mouse precision?

[SantaClaws]

Like the topic suggests, I want to know if the resolutions in games, especially FPS, affects the mouse precision.
As I understand it, if you increase or decrease the sensetvity in windows you decrease the mouse precision, because the mousepointer starts skipping pixels. If you increase or decrease the DPI on your mouse, you are able to increase or decrease your sensetivity without affecting the mouse precision either way.
However, through experimenting in different games, I find that even though my frame rate may suffer slightly (5-10 fps at most) my mouse precision benefits a lot. This makes sense to me, since there are now more pixels per inch on higher resolutions, so the mousepointer shouldn't make as large "leaps" when ever it moves what ever one unit is.
So I'd just like some confirmation on my hypothesis here, is screen resolution related to mouse precision?

-Santa

[Cortimi]

You know, I have always wondered about this myself. From the sounds of it, if the sensitivity in Windows was set to minimum, then it would theoretically skip 0 pixels right? Then to actually get the cursor back to a useable speed, the DPI on the mouse drivers (assuming a gaming mouse a la Razer, etc) could be increased to whatever speed you want. This would be the most "precise" way to go right?

I just always go with SteelSeries mice when I can, their mouse smoothing is fabulous for me, takes care of pixel hop and jitter, even has some nifty cursor acceleration gimmicks that I can enable to almost make it feel like a controller (which I really like).

[SantaClaws]

Soviet Messiah, no. The windows sensetivity doesn't work that way. When it is set on 6, it moves one pixel per unit, so it's 1:1. When you lower the sensetivity, it moves, say 1.5 pixels per 3 units (making up numbers here). That way you have to move 6 units to move 3 pixels, that's 1:2. But how do you move 2 pixels? Answer: you can't, the software skips that pixel.
So basicly it moves slower AND less precise. Hopefully that made some sense.

You want your windows sensetivity at the default 6 - anything else is lowering your precision. If you want to change your sensetivity, you change your DPI on your mouse.
Also, you want to turn OFF the "enhance mouse precision" in the option, it's basicly mouse acceleration - if you want mouse acceleration (which most gamers don't), you should turn it on in your mouse driver.