How to find mouse native DPI?

AstroBenny · June 18, 2015

So I have a Corsair M65 gaming mouse and I want to find the native DPI of my mouse, leave it at that, and change sensitivity options in-game?

How do I find/know the Native DPI?

Cheers,

Ben

PineappleHolidays · June 18, 2015

"native dpi" ?

whut

You can set it to what dpi you want and in game sens independently

Nup · June 18, 2015

presumably what it loads up with?

I'm sure if you use their software to change it you'll see the value presented. Although there is no standard. As you can change it, since there is a DPI button to toggle it on the fly, so one vanilla one isnt really a thing, so far as i'm aware.

AstroBenny · June 18, 2015

So I have a Corsair M65 gaming mouse and I want to find the native DPI of my mouse, leave it at that, and change sensitivity options in-game?

How do I find/know the Native DPI?

Cheers,

Ben

But I found this on another forum:

You actually want to run your mouse at native dpi...

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[–]lilLocoManMaster Guardian I 7 points

1 year ago

Well you don't want to run highest dpi if your mouse uses hardware acceleration to reach that value. I'm not sure what you mean by 'native' dpi, but if you meant highest, there's my reply.

[–]DICKTraceyLegendary Eagle[S] 7 points

1 year ago

You are correct, He means highest DPI the mouse can achieve without using a multiplier to get there.

For those reading this comment who don't know what I am talking about here, some High DPI mice actually use upscaling to reach the resolution that they claim. So lets say a mouse is advertised as being able to go to 6000DPI, one method that some manufacturers use to achieve this is to put a 2000DPI sensor in and upscale the reading.

If the mouse is set for 3000DPI, the sensor will set itself at 1500DPI and the mouse hardware doubles the value of the reading from the sensor. If the mouse is set to 6000DPI, the hardware just triples the reading.