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I downloaded new nvidia drivers the other day and all my in-game resolutions changed as it knew more about my monitor, which was actually great because I can now play on 960×600 @ 150hz, maybe try new drivers? or roll back older ones?

YAY IT WORKS!!!!

Thanks so much for that refresh rate trick. That’s exactly what it was :)

New question.

I have an mx518 with latest software and all mouse acceleration turned off.

If i move my mouse 30cm, it does about 180 degrees. If i whip it fast, it does about 90.

If i lower the dpi and higher my sens (so it’s the same), it doesn’t do it so much. Still does it a bit though.

Anyone?

great it refresh thing works out. i’m bit clueless about your mouse problem. doubt it has to do with your DPI. needs some more trial&error testing. is this precision problem only game depending or is it all the same on your desktop as well?

YOUR RES PROBLEM ————————————————————————-

Tbh i think you had something different, i.e. you set 1280×800 before however your monitor defaulted to something else and you have just assumed it was that.

Your juttery feeling is simply because some lcds do 75hz better at different resolutions, not sure why – but it’s why i beleive it’s all in your head.

You could try the following in launch options:

-window -noborder -w 1280 -h 800 -freq 75

The above is the only way i can see it working “as you had it before” – that or you have buggy drivers, in which case use driver cleaner and try others – but thats alot of effort.

YOUR MOUSE PROBLEM ———————————————————————–

Source engine games do not use direct input (because its gay) which means that your mouse movement ingame is dependent on how your mouse moves in Windows Desktop.

When you move your mouse ingame, your cursor in the background (windows desktop) moves as well. So everytime that your cursor moves to the edge of your desktop, windows will automatically recenter your mouse to the middle of your desktop screen again. The heavy negative acceleration that you’ve got is due to the fact that your windows cursor has to constantly recenter itself once you hit the edge of the screen.

So essentially: high dpi on lower resolution = negative mouse accel when windows sensitivity is set to 6/11 – it will depend also on the sensitivity you use in game aswell ofcourse.

To fix this stupid problem either:

a) Lower your dpi and keep windows sens on 6/11,

or

b) Keep high dpi and use higher resolution to compensate,

or

c) Keep high dpi and your low resolution, but lower windows sensitivity below 6/11 till you find the right spot.

YOU MUST ALSO increase you’re mouse hz to 500 for this to work effectively.

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Finally You’ll notice games like quake live do not have this problem because they have what i mentioned initially, a choice between:

c) in_mouse -1 (the gay source way)
a) in_mouse 1 (direct input – preferred and default setting)
b) in_mouse 2 (raw input – best, but sucks on some setups hense why it’s been added as optional in a recent update)

I’ve basically had to use 450dpi in tf2/css and 1800dpi in cod/quake at 1024×768
to do the math:

if you are at 450 and want 1800 for example:

( / 450) x 1800

and vice versa from 1800 to 450:

( / 1800) x 450

etc.

HF.

(i hate knowing everything, and also sorry for my lack of punctuation – really can’t be arsed dunc you spanner)

As mentioned in irc for anyone else that’s interested:

For hz on vista 64 read and complete step 1:

http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=1659557 – read lunatics reply (1st post)

For the best positive accel fix on the net then if you get that after removing negative accel completely then:

http://razerblueprints.net/index.php/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,99/topic,6898.0/

However as recommended; just buy a deathadder :D does all of the above in the drivers – easy for lan and OS formats etc. :)