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Created 12th April 2011 @ 13:00
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I’ve done some looking around on this, and all I can find is opinions of people I don’t know.
So I’m gonna ask for some opinions from you peoples that I do know.
I’ve been using 3500dpi since I got my deathadder…. not because i have a clue how that’s gonna help, because I saw it was highest and assumed it was best.
Is there any advantage to it? Or is 450dpi just as good?
Best dpi depends on the mouse (for example, 90 steps are the best on the Xai afaik.). For the DA, I don’t know what’s the best.
With 3500 dpi you’re likely to get negative accel, unless you use a 1 millimetre / 360.
Depends on the sensor at hand, the old DA didn’t perform on peak capacity until you set it to maximum DPI for example.
Use whatever works for you – chances are you wouldn’t notice much of a difference.
From what I’ve read on esr and the like, higher dpi doesn’t mean it’s more accurate, just more sensitive. You might experience angle skipping with a low dpi while using a high resolution/sensitivity, but in general it won’t matter much.
Personally I use a low dpi (450) because I feel it gives me better control over a high dpi at the same deg/360. Also when I’m not in-game, anything more than ~1200 dpi means the mouse moves insanely fast on the desktop and I can’t click anything…
tl;dr there’s no great advantage to using either
Last edited by kuma,
Quoted from Daleth
With 3500 dpi you’re likely to get negative accel, unless you use a 1 millimetre / 360.
not if hes using rawinput.
Quoted from grimbar
Depends on the sensor at hand, the old DA didn’t perform on peak capacity until you set it to maximum DPI for example.
Use whatever works for you – chances are you wouldn’t notice much of a difference.
It got firmware patched, and I used it at 450dpi aswell, no problem..
Now after my own experience
you can be good with any dpi, but I found low dpi a more solid feeling, of consistentcy.
And high dpi seems more “inresponsive” when the polling rate wasent being maxed(data sent consistent at the set rate)
(yes similar cm/360 wise)
I recommend a dpi from 400-800 anyday, nothing higher, regardless of sens.
past tense quad.
Last edited by FuguFish,
DPI= Dots per Inch,
So this means that the higher the value, the more it ‘measures’.
In effect this will result in a higher amount of data (which is the reason why people often raise the polling rate of their USB port).
As a general rule of thumb: Higher DPI is more sensitive so you need a better (cleaner/smoother) surface for your mouse.
Lower DPI is less sensitive and doesn’t per-se need a smooth surface.
However, using there isn’t much difference in using a high/low DPI for TF2…since it mainly consists of coarse aim anyway.
Okay now my issues makes sense since that is something i did not know.
I have Zowie EC1 Black as a mouse and I used to play with 2000dpi with the native 1000hz polling, but since i changed the mouse mat to more rough surface it didn’t work always as intented when making fast movements, sometimes did not move enough and sometimes way too much.
Now with 1000dpi it feels a lot better and I am considering also what Quad has said and try out if 500dpi would be even better. Though the 1000dpi feels so nice atm that I am not sure if I even want to go lower since finding the sensitivity after dpi change is always a pain.
Learn math namu. And that’s false information quad, if using a high enough sens a dpi higher than 800 is required to have good control.
Last edited by Rake,
Quoted from naMu
Okay now my issues makes sense since that is something i did not know.
I have Zowie EC1 Black as a mouse and I used to play with 2000dpi with the native 1000hz polling, but since i changed the mouse mat to more rough surface it didn’t work always as intented when making fast movements, sometimes did not move enough and sometimes way too much.
Now with 1000dpi it feels a lot better and I am considering also what Quad has said and try out if 500dpi would be even better. Though the 1000dpi feels so nice atm that I am not sure if I even want to go lower since finding the sensitivity after dpi change is always a pain.
(360 / (0.022 * DPI * Sensitivity)) * 2.54 = X cm/360
No pain here boss
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