Is Mouse Accleration Bad?

[Scorpio 72472]

hello,

i've always heard about mouse acceleration but never looked into it. recently I tried playing fps games without mouse acceleration I turned off the "enhance pointer precision" from the control panel. an guess what? I cant hit shit. it first off all feels very weird. I cant make long turns and my fine tuning of aim has gone down the gutter.

 

a lot of people have told me that mouse acceleration ruins my aim, but I've always played on a very small mouse pad (my pc desk is very small) and that option helps me fine tune my aim by moving it slowly and make big turns when I move the mouse fast. my hand seems to have adapted to it because I can easily guess what kind of speed I need to apply to make the turn and move the crosshair. it basically feels like natural instinct now.

 

so, should I try and force myself into learning non-accelerated gaming or just stick with mine. in essesnce what I really want to know is that. am I really missing something? by using mouse acceleration?

 

I am using a very cheap $2 mouse rn but ill be buying a g102/203 very soon. so I got curious.

NOTE: my present mouse cannot handle the movements I make with precision disabled

[SkilledRebuilds]

17 minutes ago, Scorpio 72472 said:

hello,

i've always heard about mouse acceleration but never looked into it. recently I tried playing fps games without mouse acceleration I turned off the "enhance pointer precision" from the control panel. an guess what? I cant hit shit. it first off all feels very weird. I cant make long turns and my fine tuning of aim has gone down the gutter.

 

a lot of people have told me that mouse acceleration ruins my aim, but I've always played on a very small mouse pad (my pc desk is very small) and that option helps me fine tune my aim by moving it slowly and make big turns when I move the mouse fast. my hand seems to have adapted to it because I can easily guess what kind of speed I need to apply to make the turn and move the crosshair. it basically feels like natural instinct now.

 

so, should I try and force myself into learning non-accelerated gaming or just stick with mine. in essesnce what I really want to know is that. am I really missing something? by using mouse acceleration?

 

I am using a very cheap $2 mouse rn but ill be buying a g102/203 very soon. so I got curious.

NOTE: my present mouse cannot handle the movements I make with precision disabled

Test with new Mouse, $2 mice are garbage in a lot of aspects and you should test yourself on a better input device with likely higher quality (sensors/liftoff distances and whatnot)

[19_blackie_73]

just use whatever suits your style best, at the end you have to game with it, no one else. If u are better with acceleration, use acceleration. The best thing is to try different things and find out whats best for YOU

[martward]

It's subjective. I can imagine not using acceleration when you have a cheap mouse is more difficult. If you have a better mouse where you can set the DPI and which has a good sensor I think turning off mouse acceleration is a good idea, though it will take some getting used to. Then again, if your mouse pad is very small and you don't feel that mouse acceleration is holding you back I don't really see any immediate need to turn it off. Just play the way you like and use whatever settings you are comfortable with.

[Princess Luna]

Yes it is evil, kill it with fire.

[porina]

Personal preferences. I can't stand non-linear mouse responses. Windows is bad, MacOS is even worse as speed falls off a cliff. If you only use one and got used to it, stick with it.

[d3adc3II]

Short answer: it's bad for muscle memory.

Anything that is not constant and stable is bad for muscle memory.

 

Long answer: If it works for you, you can keep it. But if you want to improve in higher level, first thing you can do is to turn it off. The learning curve can be quite painful at first, but it's worth the effort.