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High DPI mouse and Osu!

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Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
July 23 2010 05:48 GMT
#1
I've been using a ~1000dpi generic logitech optical that I picked up in China in 2006... 1000dpi is great for stuff like Brood War, but in games like Osu! which run at higher resolution... it seems that my mouse just can't keep up.

Any other Osu! players care to comment on this? Am I finding empty excuses or should I get a new mouse?

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-HellZerg-
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States409 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-23 06:03:16
July 23 2010 06:01 GMT
#2
You can go to Options and select a screen resolution.
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
July 23 2010 06:01 GMT
#3
Touchscreen starcraft yo
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
July 23 2010 06:02 GMT
#4
My mouse is 400DPI and while not knowing what OSU I can say that you should turn acceleration on
Issor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States870 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-23 06:09:45
July 23 2010 06:03 GMT
#5
Oh no no no no no no no. Mouse acceleration is the devil. Turn it off if it isn't off, then wait a week or two while your hand and brain adjust to the new mouse movement. It becomes much more accurate than using mouse acceleration when you're used to moving the mouse.

If you find that it can't keep up, I'd recommend a new mouse. 2000dpi is probably about the max of what you would need.

To expand on what I've said here, the reason that mouse acceleration is awful is because it makes your mouse motion unpredictable. If you try to make a precise click to micro one unit or a small group of lings, for instance, you might not click the right unit and you may fumble around for a little bit trying to click it. It might seem like you're not being accurate because you haven't practiced enough, in many cases, but it's mostly the fault of mouse acceleration. Turn off acceleration, let your hands/brain get used to it, and you'll be amazed at how much more accurate you become.
Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
July 23 2010 06:13 GMT
#6
I've been registry editing to get rid of acceleration for a while... I'll check out mouse threads to see what I need... thanks!
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Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
July 23 2010 06:16 GMT
#7
On July 23 2010 15:02 cgrinker wrote:
My mouse is 400DPI and while not knowing what OSU I can say that you should turn acceleration on


And I can tell you right away back that no gamer on earth plays with mouse accel. Most pros have to go into the commands to force it off too.
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sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
July 23 2010 06:30 GMT
#8
If you have a 400dpi mouse like me then you may HAVE to keep mouse acceleration on in high resolution games, otherwise your mouse will either jump 4 pixels at a time or be extremely sluggish.

you should never need a mouse with over 1000dpi unless you run Osu at like 2909x2397....1000 dpi is alot.
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
July 23 2010 06:35 GMT
#9
My current mouse goes up to 5600DPI... Yet It's set to 1600DPI and I'm considered to be a "high sensitivity" player. I would suggest getting a new mouse, any "gaming" mouse will do the trick basically. I'm sure there are many good mainstream mice but from experience, I used to be pretty mediocre at games until I got my first Razer Diamondback 6-7 years ago, and then I played on a very competitive level. Some mainstream mice are really bad.

PS: Acceleration is awful
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Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
July 23 2010 06:49 GMT
#10
On July 23 2010 15:30 sob3k wrote:
If you have a 400dpi mouse like me then you may HAVE to keep mouse acceleration on in high resolution games, otherwise your mouse will either jump 4 pixels at a time or be extremely sluggish.

you should never need a mouse with over 1000dpi unless you run Osu at like 2909x2397....1000 dpi is alot.


400 dpi is a lot more than you think. I'd disregard your post just due to the fact that you don't know enough about mice to talk, otherwise you would know that you could have a 100 dpi mouse that can go across the whole screen without accel.
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xmShake
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1100 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-23 07:03:18
July 23 2010 07:00 GMT
#11
First and foremost, acceleration OFF. Google "cpl mousefix" if it the mouse settings in the control panel doesn't adequately stop it.

Have you tried lowering your resolution? This is the only solution besides physically moving your wrist/arm more (which I find to be the better solution for osu since this tends to be more accurate for me.)

You could also consider changing your mouse sensitivity settings, but this is less than optimal since you probably don't want to spend time adjusting to a new speed, and setting the mouse higher than the windows default causes it to skip pixels.
kaleidoscope
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Singapore2887 Posts
July 23 2010 08:01 GMT
#12
i've a salmosa which can render me to put up to 1800dpi, but i chose to use it at 800dpi.. was very fine with both controls for SC and Osu.

In Osu,yYou need have to get your mouse movement to be smooth and straight from one point to another, without ur cursor going on an uneven path..
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vileChAnCe
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada525 Posts
July 23 2010 08:14 GMT
#13
http://www.d3scene.com/forum/cs-guides/18396-guide-complete-cs-s-mouse-optimization-guide.html
Day[9] i've broken 6 mice, 5 keyboards, 3 pairs of headphones, and a mousepad, all from raging after starcraft losing streaks
fredd
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Estonia256 Posts
July 23 2010 08:50 GMT
#14
I never understood people who use high DPI's. Especially higher than 800.
sup
sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
July 23 2010 09:27 GMT
#15
On July 23 2010 15:49 ZlaSHeR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 23 2010 15:30 sob3k wrote:
If you have a 400dpi mouse like me then you may HAVE to keep mouse acceleration on in high resolution games, otherwise your mouse will either jump 4 pixels at a time or be extremely sluggish.

you should never need a mouse with over 1000dpi unless you run Osu at like 2909x2397....1000 dpi is alot.


400 dpi is a lot more than you think. I'd disregard your post just due to the fact that you don't know enough about mice to talk, otherwise you would know that you could have a 100 dpi mouse that can go across the whole screen without accel.


uhh, bro...if i'm wrong then I'd really like some help setting up my mouse with SC2. I have a Logitech optical mini which I believe runs at 400dpi. Its great for SC1, but in SC2 it is very sluggish even when sensitivity is maxed, if I turn off mouse accel (smoothing), it jumps pixels at high sensitivity and is unusably slow when at low sensitivity. I have tried higher DPI mice and they work great, what am I missing here?
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
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