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The_ShadowWw
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Hi,

one of my friends said: I set my mouse at max DPI and adjust the in game sensitivity, so that the mouse would track the surface better

I think this is total nonsense, what is your opinion on this and how much DPI is enough?

 

I found a topic about engine lag/oddness on higher DPI

http://www.overclock.net/forum/375-mice/1631553-does-mean-800-dpi-best-pmw3366-also-cpate-says-higher-dpi-2-3ms-more-responsive.html

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That's kind of a nonsensical thing to ask. DPI settings aren't right or wrong, it all comes down to personal preference, and, really, can also change from game to game. I generally have mine set at 3200 DPI.

 

 I do the same thing as your friend, because I don't want to have to continuously change my mouse settings between programs. I'd rather change it once, and have it where I like it whenever I start the program.

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Sounds like bs to me. I play with 400 dpi with 1.8 sens in game I think it tracks well.

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I think he's confusing the polling rate with the DPI.

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44 minutes ago, pyrojoe34 said:

I think he's confusing the polling rate with the DPI.

In CS go for example mouse sensitivity is not pooling rate

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2 hours ago, The_ShadowWw said:

In CS go for example mouse sensitivity is not pooling rate

That's my point. Mouse sensitivity (DPI) is not polling rate. They are independent of each other. That's like saying a monitor's refresh rate is the same as the latency, they're not the same at all.

 

DPI just tells the mouse what the conversion rate is for real life movement vs on screen movement is (like changing the location of the fulcrum on a lever. Polling rate tells the mouse how many times to report its location every second.

 

What I'm saying is that your friend is confusing DPI with polling rate. What he's doing should have no effect on accuracy and doesn't make much sense to me.

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I think his reason is more pooling + more DPI and decreasing mouse sensitivity in game if better then leaving sensitivity on default and just increasing the pooling rate and adjusting the DPI

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