Thinking about mouse sensitivity settings.

[Yn Crashout]

I know, play how you want. Some people like low, high, "medium", etc.
But I think I finally figured out the way to use mouse drivers and stuff in terms of adjusting.

DPI option; 400, 800, or 1600? 1400? This is the broad brush stroke that you start with on your desktop. Selecting things, just moving the mouse. For me it's adjust to resolution. Moving about 1 inch to get across your monitor just seems perfect. anything more and it's "unresponsive" feeling.

Windows speed option: You can't change ♥♥♥♥ on your mouse and mess with its precision doing this. Stay away.

On-the-fly Sensitivity (Razer): I'm not sure if this has the same effect as WPS. It seems almost like it's gamepad stick sensitivity, kind of like mouse sensitivity before adjusting in game.) I guess you use this in game before you go to in-game controls. These are the smaller brush strokes.

In-game controls. chipping and shaping away to make it perfect for you.

Am I right?

[Azza ☠]

DPI is adjusted accordingly to your monitor resolution. Higher resolution will require a slightly higher DPI to swipe across the mouse.

Too low DPI will cause jumps in the mouse position.
Too high DPI will give a slow response and a number of swipes to move.

Polling rate is the number of times the PC will check for input - you want this as high as possible 1000Hz is default and good.

Under Control Panel > Mouse > Pointer Options (tab)
Ensure pointer speed is at 6 (middle) of 11. Also, turn off 'Enhanced pointer precision' and any 'Acceleration'.

Ingame also turn off any 'Mouse acceleration' and use 'Raw input' only.

Lower DPI to around 400 to 800. Move the mouse cursor far left, then with a flick of the wrist see if you can get it to the far right in one go. Adjust DPI accordingly.

Then ingame, with a FPS (First Person Shooter), practice standing in a spot, aiming at a target, flicking the wrist, to perform a 360 and land right back at that target.

One swip/spin the mouse from left to right, if it circles your aim upwards into the sky, rather than staying straight out in front, then you have something known as negative acceleration. The higher DPS would actually be throwing off your aim. If your really good, you want to make the single swip spin 360 degrees and return to around the point it started. Then you can do 180 degree trick shots and flick snipering a lot easier. Lower DPI would have it more snappy back to those points. Make sure the mouse isn't jumping over pixels, if so raise the DPI.

Now if you have a toggle DPI switch (or macro key setup) on the mouse, you want to set more than just one DPI. Double your DPI - so if you have 600 DPI for Gaming, 1200 DPI might be ideal for Windows/General, plus 1800 DPI could be used for Drawing/Pixel Perfection.

Ingame you could use the 600 DPI for running and gunning, then toggle to 1200 DPI for more accuracy sniping purposes (if not quick scoping), etc.

[Yn Crashout]

I don't understand. Do wehave different definitions of accuracy? Because get this. Practically speaking, you say too low of a DPI causes jumps in mouse position; too high and.... something else you said.

I just made my mouse 250 dpi. 1366x768 resolution. No jumps. just a slow, extremely steady cursor. If I adjust it to 750/800, it's just faster. No jumps. Any jumps are caused by human error in trying to be steady, hand shake etc.

So.... either I'm wrong or you're wrong. Lol why are you right?

[Yn Crashout]

Now, if I make it 250 DPI and raise my windows speed all the way up, yes, I jump. If I increase DPI with teh same maxed windows pointer speed, it still jumps.

So are you getting that confused?

[Yn Crashout]

Old mouse reviews rave on about "WOW, once I got used to this DPI i was so much more accurate!"

"Oh it's great that I used this DPI because it allows for more precision!"

One's talking about going from 800 to 1000 DPI and how it's leaps and bounds different. I adjusted my mouse to those and swapped back and forth. It literally just feels like speed. The accuracy comes from the dexterity of hand movement.

[Yn Crashout]

I'm truly thinking it's pure resolution matching. They just don't say this. Assuming WPS 6/11 and no acceleration, at that point it's all hardware.

i.e. assuming perfect control and all that stuff, 400, hell, 250 is just as accurate at ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 4K as a 1600DPI mouse; it's just the 1600 is faster and thus would feela hell of a lot better and a lot more "accurate" due to motion being more proportionate and 1-to1 feeling on your resolution vs turning like a tank.

Lol I call marketing BS!

[Azza ☠]

"I just made my mouse 250 dpi. 1366x768 resolution."

Yeah, it's all about the screen resolution involved.

I work at 2560x1600 (1600p) resolution. Therefore 250 DPI would bounce over those additional pixels across the screen. So your optimal DPI might be 250, but I would need around 500 at least to achieve those same results.

Then you adjust it to your personal taste, reaction speed, and mouse surface.

I use a Logitech G500 mouse with Razer Goliathus Speed Edition mousepad.

My personal tastes are:
600-800 DPI (FPS Gaming)
1200 DPI (General Use)
1800 DPI (Graphical Work)

For someone elses resolution, all these would be different. There is no single best DPI setting. Your ideal DPI setting will depend on your body measurements, monitor resolution, and physical dexterity.

However, then we get mouse with 6400 DPI or more. Realistically I and most people out there, never go higher than half of that, or even a quarter. It's a bit of a marketing gimmick. Not to say it's a bad thing, depending on the mouse.

Extremely higher dpi would being handy on a tri-monitor setup, or getting crazy like that. If you had 3-4 monitors in Nvidia Surround to swipe across in your games, you would then want it.

[Yn Crashout]

Basically. I zoomed way in on a super pixelated image and did tests and stuff like that. ultimately the marketing what htey dont' tell you is around your windows pointer speed...

i.e. a 1600 mouse is "more accurate" than a 400 dpi mouse in this way; assuming 11/11 WPS makes your mouse "1600 dpi", you skip. at 1600 you cn turn it down to 6/11.

400 @ 6/11 = 1600 @ 6/11. which one you're better with is based on how you like to move the mouse.

I started using a computer in the 90s as a kid. Was a console player but for productivity and stuf like that I remember basically just using 400 and then 800 dpi mice.

Mostly 400. So I guess that's what I'm used to. just gotta get a better shaped mouse. I think maybe a DA, or a g400s.