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Cheesefome
Profile Joined May 2016
314 Posts
October 20 2017 18:09 GMT
#1
What is your average APM? AND....

Scale from 1-10, 1 being poor and 10 being Amazing, what would you rate your accuracy with your current set up?

Mine is 1600 DPI i dont mess with mouse sensitivity from windows menu, leave it standard.

My APM 270-360 hope to break 400 soon.

Accuracy 4.
AManHasNoName
Profile Joined September 2017
United States165 Posts
October 20 2017 18:12 GMT
#2
This is something I did a ton of tuning with. I'm fairly satisfied right now, but not completely.

My Info
APM: 220-280
DPI: 1050
Accuracy: 7
Windows Settings: 6 with Enhanced Pointer Precision OFF
“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
Cheesefome
Profile Joined May 2016
314 Posts
October 20 2017 18:47 GMT
#3
On October 21 2017 03:12 AManHasNoName wrote:
This is something I did a ton of tuning with. I'm fairly satisfied right now, but not completely.

My Info
APM: 220-280
DPI: 1050
Accuracy: 7
Windows Settings: 6 with Enhanced Pointer Precision OFF


I had a similar set up to that 1050 or 1k on DPI and the precision was amazing. The only thing i disliked about it was that my APM and mouse scrolling felt took a hit. It's an accuracy sacrifice for speed basically. Wish the mouse speed didn't effect the screen scrolling otherwise I would be using the same settings as yours.
Chronopolis
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1484 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-20 18:52:09
October 20 2017 18:49 GMT
#4
APM: 150-180
Screen resolution: 1920*1080
2400 dpi
Accuracy: 4
Windows sensitivity 6 and in-game sensitivity at default 50%.

I started out with 1600, but I increased that because scrolling with the mouse was awkward.
AManHasNoName
Profile Joined September 2017
United States165 Posts
October 20 2017 19:02 GMT
#5
On October 21 2017 03:47 Cheesefome wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 21 2017 03:12 AManHasNoName wrote:
This is something I did a ton of tuning with. I'm fairly satisfied right now, but not completely.

My Info
APM: 220-280
DPI: 1050
Accuracy: 7
Windows Settings: 6 with Enhanced Pointer Precision OFF


I had a similar set up to that 1050 or 1k on DPI and the precision was amazing. The only thing i disliked about it was that my APM and mouse scrolling felt took a hit. It's an accuracy sacrifice for speed basically. Wish the mouse speed didn't effect the screen scrolling otherwise I would be using the same settings as yours.


Haha yeah that's actually the exact situation I've been struggling with as well. I feel like if I go much higher I lose a ton of accuracy, but not sure how worthwhile it is. I think atm my APM is being slowed more by my brain not thinking fast enough than by my mouse speed, but it's hard to tell for certain.
“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
Bakuryu
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany1065 Posts
October 20 2017 19:10 GMT
#6
APM: 160
Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
DPI: 800
Windows Settings: 7/11 with Enhance Pointer Precision ON
"use Mouse Scaling" enabled in bw
playing bw in 4:3 SD with standard english hotkeys on german QWERTZ keyboard.
Accuracy: 10

i will do everything to preserve this setting
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10012 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-20 23:49:41
October 20 2017 19:40 GMT
#7
800 dpi on 4:3 with ingame sensitivity off (6/11 on windows), i use a SS 4HD (hard pad)

mouse: G203/Zowie FK2 (i alternate between the 2, i prefer the shape of the FK2 but the clicks are too stiff)
mouse scroll (ingame): 5/7
apm: 300
accuracy: 8 (improves the more i play)
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-Debaser-
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States329 Posts
October 20 2017 20:22 GMT
#8
APM: 220
Resolution: 1080p
800 DPI Logitech G203
6/11 windows, unchecked mouse speed in game
Accuracy: 6
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Poegim
Profile Joined February 2017
Poland264 Posts
October 20 2017 20:58 GMT
#9
On October 21 2017 05:22 -Debaser- wrote:
APM: 220
Resolution: 1080p
800 DPI Logitech G203
6/11 windows, unchecked mouse speed in game
Accuracy: 6


;O


apm250-300
depends of my screen resolution in play :
1200DPI @ 1280x720
1600DPI @ 1600x900
2000DPI @ 1920x1080
rest = default
mouse speec etc unchecked
g203
Aka: Poezja[T4], Zulu. [[ Probably second best player in the world. In honor of my best friend Moagim, he was a Kraken from the sea. Poegim ]]
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5522 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-20 21:18:07
October 20 2017 21:00 GMT
#10
Apm: 200
4:3 screen (just switched from 16 : 9, it feels much better)
800dpi g203, g240 cloth pad
6/11 windows
in game sens off
scaling off
raw mouse off (cant stand little cursor)
mouse accel off
Mouse scroll 6/7
Accuracy 8
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jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5522 Posts
October 20 2017 21:05 GMT
#11
Question: does screen res change in sc? How do you find out what res youre running?

I ask because when i start sc it starts in a window that is clearly below my default (1080) before going into fullscreen. I figured it was running at a standardized res that was below my default.
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Liquid`Ret
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Netherlands4513 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-20 21:30:13
October 20 2017 21:29 GMT
#12
apm ; 280-300
dpi: 800, 6/11 windows, acceleration off, mouse scaling off. I recently tried to change to 900 or 1k dpi, but i just couldnt get used to it.
playing in 4:3now, was 16 before, felt i was too slow to reach all over the screen.
accuracy : 8

dpi 700-1000 was most common for sc2 pros, and those guys all play widescreen,6/11 in windows and no acceleration, and didnt have things like mouse scaling and so on, many of the players who came from 1.16 and now enable mouse scaling are using insane mouse speeds (mouse scaling + relatively high dpi), in the past, people were using logitech mini which had 400 dpi i believe? but if you're accurate with it why not!
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Trutaacz
Profile Joined August 2017
Poland101 Posts
October 20 2017 21:42 GMT
#13
apm: 200-400
4:3, windowed full screen
1000 dpi, 4/11 windows
fk mini mouse
in game sensivity 55%
scaling off
acceleration off
mouse scroll 5/7
Ganfei2
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
473 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-20 22:05:20
October 20 2017 22:03 GMT
#14
So BW is kind of wonky in that I don't really understand what's going on with the resolutions when you play it fullscreen.

I've left my Windows sensitivity at 6/11 for all of the following:

When I first came back to BW around May, prior to RM but after they had added all that stuff like bilinear filtering etc., I was using about 1600 DPI and the ingame sensitivity of 50%. I was letting the game do all the maintenance of aspect ratio and all that. At least I think that's what was happening, all I remember is that I didn't have to do anything with my GPU to play at 4:3.

After a patch at some point in like June, my mouse became very wonky. I changed from the above settings to having my GPU maintain the aspect ratio, which required that I lower my DPI to 700 to get approximately the same feel as I was getting at 1600 DPI before.

Now, in remastered, I don't have to use my GPU settings to maintain the aspect ratio. I do have to increase my DPI to around 2200 to play comfortably, however. I have all the in-game mouse settings turned of; only hardware cursor is checked.

I'd rate my accuracy a 7/10, and I know I would be more accurate at lower DPIs, but it just feels so insanely slow at anything significantly below where I am right now. As others have also said, 16 doesn't feel good, and I play with 4:3. Even then, lower DPIs + scrolling the map feels really awkward. At my current settings, one swing of my wrist takes me from one edge of the screen to the other. I don't like moving my forearm at all when I play, so I try to get a setting where the full left-right range a mouse sweep with wrist only covers the width of the screen.
AManHasNoName
Profile Joined September 2017
United States165 Posts
October 20 2017 22:24 GMT
#15
@Ret & TT1

What resolution do you guys play on? 1920x1080 and Windowed(Fullscreen) ?
“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10012 Posts
October 20 2017 22:27 GMT
#16
On October 21 2017 07:24 AManHasNoName wrote:
@Ret & TT1

What resolution do you guys play on? 1920x1080 and Windowed(Fullscreen) ?


1920x1080 + fullscreen (not windowed fullscreen)
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sketchyz420
Profile Joined January 2016
Canada3 Posts
October 20 2017 23:24 GMT
#17
hmm , it feels so wierd i read everyone here and im nowhere close of anyones DPI setting , quite interesting
I play with HD setting with pillarbox activated , i feel have i significant less amount of screen to cover. i use 5120 dpi on a steelserie sensei. Since i dont have alot of space on my computer desktop to use my whole arm , i use a what i would qualify as a high mouse speed for a RTS player. I feel very comfortable using only my wrist . With one motion , i can go through my whole screen and since i play OSU with that DPI , i feel kindof very accurate , i would say 7/10 7.5/10 accuracy

summary
4:3 HD
5120 DPI
Accuracy 7.5/10
APM : 150-170

(sorry for my very bad english , trying my best )
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2298 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-20 23:44:39
October 20 2017 23:33 GMT
#18
Mouse : Logitech G203
1600x900
400 DPI
Mouse sensitivity activated in game, at 75% speed.
windows 6/11
apm 250-320
accuracy: hmm 7-8/10

imo precision > speed with the mouse, mostly because you don't use your mouse to switch screens, which in my opinion is the key to playing fast.
StarCraft & Audax Italiano.
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5522 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-20 23:33:58
October 20 2017 23:33 GMT
#19
jesus christ 5120 dpi we have a winner

sketchyz do you use in game sensitivity?
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sketchyz420
Profile Joined January 2016
Canada3 Posts
October 20 2017 23:53 GMT
#20
On October 21 2017 08:33 jimminy_kriket wrote:
jesus christ 5120 dpi we have a winner

sketchyz do you use in game sensitivity?


No i dont , we could call it * raw sensivity * , i use the same mouse speed to play DOTA , LoL and CS GO
tbh the only game i really feel a struggle with this dpi is CS GO , but thats another story totally from here. im pretty confident im accurate on starcraft and that my mouse control is one of my strenght
fish_radio
Profile Blog Joined March 2017
182 Posts
October 21 2017 00:01 GMT
#21
APM: 450
640x480
400 DPI
Mouse scaling enabled
Windows 6/11
Accuracy: 9
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LaStScan
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)1289 Posts
October 21 2017 00:26 GMT
#22
apm: 270-330
4:3, full screen
500hz 1000 dpi, 4/11 windows
FKmini Mouse
in game mouse sensitivity 30%
mouse scaling on
enhance pointer(?) off
mouse scroll 6/7
rate: 10/10
Trying my best for ASL, ASTL
Demurity
Profile Joined April 2011
United States424 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 03:12:10
October 21 2017 03:12 GMT
#23
APM: 275-350
16 : 9, fullscreen
Logitech G Pro mouse
1250 dpi, 6/11 windows sensitivity, in-game sensitivity OFF, mouse scaling OFF
mouse scroll 4/7
Rate: 9/10
|Terran|
sM.Zik
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada2550 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 04:27:38
October 21 2017 04:27 GMT
#24
200-250 apm
16 : 9 / fullscreen
1920x1080
Razer Mamba TE
2000 dpi
Windows/game neutral sensibility
Accuracy: 7/10
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iopq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1015 Posts
October 21 2017 08:14 GMT
#25
2560x1440 resolution, 1600 dpi, no acceleration

My accuracy is like 5/10, but I accidentally pressed the DPI button and played on 1000 dpi all day and lost like 200 points, lol so it could be worse
Cheesefome
Profile Joined May 2016
314 Posts
October 21 2017 10:36 GMT
#26
On October 21 2017 08:24 sketchyz420 wrote:
hmm , it feels so wierd i read everyone here and im nowhere close of anyones DPI setting , quite interesting
I play with HD setting with pillarbox activated , i feel have i significant less amount of screen to cover. i use 5120 dpi on a steelserie sensei. Since i dont have alot of space on my computer desktop to use my whole arm , i use a what i would qualify as a high mouse speed for a RTS player. I feel very comfortable using only my wrist . With one motion , i can go through my whole screen and since i play OSU with that DPI , i feel kindof very accurate , i would say 7/10 7.5/10 accuracy

summary
4:3 HD
5120 DPI
Accuracy 7.5/10
APM : 150-170

(sorry for my very bad english , trying my best )


HOLY shet! This is what it must feel like to play games with ADHD.
Cheesefome
Profile Joined May 2016
314 Posts
October 21 2017 10:51 GMT
#27
I'm surprised at how low people's DPI is, I always assumed most players had over 2k DPI at least.
RedW4rr10r
Profile Joined January 2010
Switzerland749 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 14:55:30
October 21 2017 12:55 GMT
#28
On October 21 2017 19:51 Cheesefome wrote:
I'm surprised at how low people's DPI is, I always assumed most players had over 2k DPI at least.

Same. Especially Bakuryu uses such a low DPI (from my point of view). Only 800 there :O

Well, here are my settings. First off: I've got a new mouse because my old 10€ cheap mouse was shit for remastered because I couldn't change DPI. On iccup it was quite good though, due to the help of mca launcher with its "mouse plugin". In remastered though, I wasn't able to find a good mouse speed while maintaining my accuracy. So I had sooooo many misclicks, it wasn't that fun anymore. So after talking to a few friends of mine, I decided to buy a new mouse. I ended up buying the Logitech g403 and I think I've finally found a good setup for me (after testing quite a bit). So here we go:

APM: Kinda everything from 180-280 :D (that's at least what the ingame counter says, I always forget to look at the score screen, I'm still not used to APM being displayed there xD)
4:3, Windowed (Fullscreen)
Mouse: Logitech g403
Windows mouse settings 7/11
Accelleration ON
3100 DPI for bw (though I use only 1850 for windows itself, still playing with the latter)
In game mouse sensivity OFF
in game Mouse scaling OFF
in game Hardware cursor ON
in game mouse scroll 4/7
Rate: 8-9/10 (I'm still not super content but my accuracy has improved a lot since I've got my new mouse, though I still need to get used to it, hence the "8-9")

EDIT: Since I'm still figuring out my settings, I changed a bit:
Windows mouse settings 11/11
1850 DPI for both bw and windows
In game mouse sensivity ON and 100%

Feels a bit too fast for windows but bw is ok (kinda feels like the previous settings). I tried to change it due to this huge discrepancy between bw and windows.
Rip & Tear until it is done!
chrisolo
Profile Joined May 2009
Germany2609 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-21 14:03:58
October 21 2017 13:59 GMT
#29
APM: 120-350 (depends on laziness)
Screen resolution: 1920*1080 16 : 9
Mouse: Logitech G403
800 dpi
Accuracy: 6
Windows sensitivity 7/11 (mouse acceleration off)
In-game sensitivity at 60%.
In-Game mouse scrolling speed: 2/7

Mouse scaling is off
Hardware cursor is on

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