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Sooo...I've been gaming with acceleration for more than 10 years. What do you use?

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Yes, cringe now. 

I used to game using cheap Logitech optical mice that, let's face it, are useless without acceleration. 

It's just became habit. 

Today, I just bought a Steel Series Rival, my first nice optical mouse. I have a g600 and a couple of other mice sitting around, but I still haven't made the switch.

 

Now I'm trying to unlearn acceleration. Yes, you can become used to it and quite good. 

I want to know what DPI you game at, if you have a laser sensor or not, and if you use acceleration. Just curios. 

Right now I'm trying 1800 DPI, but I'm afraid if I was gaming with something not ideal (not a slick enough surface, back mouse pad or mouse) it would not be ideal

Also, I want to look into making batch script to change the windows mouse acceleration on/off. I like in for Photoshop and other regular use. And pointers there to save me effort would be appreciated. No, I don't really want to use mouse profiles. 

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Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

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Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

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I used a DJ Mouse (google it, its complete shit and i used it for 4 years).

But today, Christmas Eve i got a Roccat Kone Pure :)

 

@400dpi and 2.2 sense in cs:go

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500 dpi without. Default windows sensitivity. Using  the normal sized mm200 and that provides alot of room for movement.

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Whatever my el cheap Dell mouse is runs at like 800 DPI, no acceleration. Laser is twitchy sometimes which messes up my aim. :(

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I was in your position a few years ago. You just have to use it 24/7 and after a few days it'll become natural.

 

Just saying, you'll have to get used to the fact that everyone else's computers will have acceleration enabled.

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Yes, cringe now. 

I used to game using cheap Logitech optical mice that, let's face it, are useless without acceleration. 

It's just became habit. 

Today, I just bought a Steel Series Rival, my first nice optical mouse. I have a g600 and a couple of other mice sitting around, but I still haven't made the switch.

 

Now I'm trying to unlearn acceleration. Yes, you can become used to it and quite good. 

I want to know what DPI you game at, if you have a laser sensor or not, and if you use acceleration. Just curios. 

Right now I'm trying 1800 DPI, but I'm afraid if I was gaming with something not ideal (not a slick enough surface, back mouse pad or mouse) it would not be ideal

Also, I want to look into making batch script to change the windows mouse acceleration on/off. I like in for Photoshop and other regular use. And pointers there to save me effort would be appreciated. No, I don't really want to use mouse profiles. 

400-800 DPI depending on game, with very low in-game mouse settings, no acceleration. Got a G600 for MMOs, and a G100s for FPS and general use and soon a G303.

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800dpi

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800 dpi, 2.14 sensitivity in csgo, I use the final mouse 2015,, acceleration off, 6/11 sensitivity in windows

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4000DPI no acc. Logitech G302

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I use my mouse at 3000 dpi with no acceleration on a 1440p screen. Works great for me. I use my mouse in a claw grip and pivot around on my wrist, which stays planted on my desk.

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Eh varies from game-to-game but ion general

  • No acceleration
  • First person shooters: 600 ~ 800 (up to 1000 on the rare)
  • RTS / MMORPG: 1400 ~ 1800 (possibly up to 2000)
  • Regular desktop: 1800 ~ 2400

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I won a european champsion in COD with a wireless acceleration based Logitech mouse. The problem I found was that once the mouse failed and I couldn't buy replacements of the same model anymore my training broke my aim and I couldn't use acceleration on other mice at all. I tried a whole list of them and I just couldn't get one that was the same. So I had to switch to no acceleration to get and retrain with a consistent baseline.

 

So while people are showing you their mouse and DPI actually the way to think about this is how many centimeters of movement produces a 360 degree turn in game. You want that the same in everything. Depending on what you choose you can have different DPIs but you always have a consistent baseline amount of movement and this is how you train muscle memory. So I use 35cm/360 and my mouse is on 450 dpi. The DPI is chosen for its consistency on that particular sensor, mice in general work better on a native setting without interpolation and it also needs to be somewhat close to the sort of movement you make and be the right speed in Windows or in some games without precise adjustment you will find you can't get the sensitivity set correctly.

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I actually genuinely play my games at 4800 dpi no acceleration and always setting my games to 1

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3500dpi - 1000hz - No acceleration 

Never really touching the games mouse settings

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I'm surprised the variance I'm seeing. Some incredibly high DPIs as well. 
One of the biggest problems I'm running into already is how game sensitivity affects it, finding that "1" setting basically. Like BF4 is at 20% by default. What the fuck does that mean lol 

muh specs 

Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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I'm surprised the variance I'm seeing. Some incredibly high DPIs as well. 

One of the biggest problems I'm running into already is how game sensitivity affects it, finding that "1" setting basically. Like BF4 is at 20% by default. What the fuck does that mean lol 

 

As I pointed out it doesn't matter, because DPI isn't the right measurement. Human hands are barely capable of 400 dpi like movements let alone 1600 dpi. If you choose cm/360 as your measurement and set your mouse to a native DPI then you don't care what scale they use, they all use something different anyway.

 

One thing to try to see how accurate you actually are is to load MS Paint and draw a 4 pixel square. If you can't do that then your sensitivity is too high. If it takes you a long time and its a real struggle your sensitivity is too high!

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I browse the desktop and play some games at 1500 DPI and step up to 3000 DPI for fast-paced games. No acceleration.

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