hey guys, just wanted to give a quick update.

I've lowered my dpi to 1200 and its been much more comfortable. I played maybe a solid two hours of mouse accuracy + custom/koth's and its helped a ton. Thanks for your help, I can actually start playing my 'game' again and focus on improving without iceskating all over the map. It's beginning to feel more like an 'extension' of my hand motions, which i think is its greatest benefit...

Sorry for the formatting, my phone's browser is being retarded, wasn't trying to write a haiku lol..

Shikyo

Finland33997 Posts

April 15 2011 16:05 GMT

#82

If you have 1600 DPI I'd say that that's way too much if you use the max settings. Use the mouse's drivers to tune the DPI down a bit. My mouse is 1800DPI and I only use it at about 6/10.

Chriamon

United States886 Posts

April 15 2011 16:13 GMT

#83

On April 15 2011 01:49 TURKISHRAMBO wrote:

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450? wow. 1600 is NOT alot. i would say its very normal for most fps/rts players.

nobody is saying you SHOULDN'T use acceleration. If you need it then play with it! Its all personal preference and nobody can tell you other wise. Play with what you are comfortable with.

Actually, a lot of people are saying you SHOULDN'T use acceleration. Thats the entire point of disabling it, it causes your mouse to move at variable speeds which you cannot account for, no matter how "used to" it you are, and thus you will be less accurate with your clicks.

And to OP, you said your mouse is "flying all over the place." Sounds like you havent actually accomplished what you think you did. When you disable acceleration your mouse should seem slower. If you did disable acceleration, you probably ramped up your sensetivity or something.

Hollywise

France112 Posts

April 15 2011 16:14 GMT

#84

On April 15 2011 01:45 Arkless wrote:
Set ur windows sensitivity to 6/11 and in game to any setting u wish as long as it isnt divisible by 5. I use my death adder on 3500 dpi, and at 61% in game and my mouse goes and clicks where I want it. I never did any of the mouse acceleration shit buddy did because if you have a mouse with it's own drivers and firmware, your mouse's polling rate in the firmware should override it anyways.

what a surgeon

pfods

United States895 Posts

April 15 2011 16:22 GMT

#85

holy crap. im some sort of machine apparently because i play with 2200 dpi on 100% sensitivity. i dont know how you guys play with like 600 and lower sensitivity

Treemonkeys

United States2082 Posts

April 15 2011 16:28 GMT

#86

On April 16 2011 01:22 pfods wrote:
holy crap. im some sort of machine apparently because i play with 2200 dpi on 100% sensitivity. i dont know how you guys play with like 600 and lower sensitivity

So basically you move your mouse in one square centimeter the entire game? That's not even good for you.

MiyaviTeddy

Canada697 Posts

April 15 2011 16:31 GMT

#87

Removing mouse acceleration? good move.

All it takes is some time to get used to and practise. I mean you probably spend a good amount of your time on default settings and now you're adjusting to the new changes.

It's like using a 17 inch screen to a 25 inch, a wooden bat to a steel bat. Radical changes and it takes time to adjust.

Sure somethings can be learned really quickly but things like this,

It takes time to learn and readjust.

niggy

United States26 Posts

April 15 2011 17:28 GMT

#88

I actually find that turning off acceleration GREATLY improved my control OP. Took a minute to get used to but I feel so much more in control now.

pfods

United States895 Posts

April 15 2011 21:03 GMT

#89

On April 16 2011 01:28 Treemonkeys wrote:

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So basically you move your mouse in one square centimeter the entire game? That's not even good for you.

not good for me? is it increasing my LDL or something?

Treemonkeys

United States2082 Posts

April 15 2011 21:05 GMT

#90

I suppose as long as you are relaxed with your mouse hand it wouldn't be any different than playing guitar.

gronnelg

Norway354 Posts

May 04 2011 14:49 GMT

#91

I tried removing acceleration, or mouse precision as win7 calls it.
I put the win mouse speed to 6/11
A few issues I'm wondering about:
The mouse speed felt so damn slow all of the sudden, that I had to boost the ingame mouse speed a lot. This felt fairly nice in the mainscreen, but turned out to be WAY to much on the minimap.
So removing acceleration seems to be a problem in mainscreen vs minimap.
Any similar experiences/advice?

Magictek

United States17 Posts

May 04 2011 15:05 GMT

#92

I agree that you should play with what you are most comfortable with although I turn off all acceleration because I want to be very consistent with where my mouse pointer will be with the same movement/travel distance of the actual mouse instead of the rate that I move the mouse.

What was your DPI before? What is comfortable for one person will not be the same for the other. You mentioned the mouse going all over the place then lower the DPI. I suggest working your way up the DPI scale until you get to the one you like.

Magictek

United States17 Posts

May 04 2011 15:06 GMT

#93

On April 16 2011 01:02 QTIP. wrote:
hey guys, just wanted to give a quick update.

I've lowered my dpi to 1200 and its been much more comfortable. I played maybe a solid two hours of mouse accuracy + custom/koth's and its helped a ton. Thanks for your help, I can actually start playing my 'game' again and focus on improving without iceskating all over the map. It's beginning to feel more like an 'extension' of my hand motions, which i think is its greatest benefit...

Sorry for the formatting, my phone's browser is being retarded, wasn't trying to write a haiku lol..

nice, sorry didn't read this before posting my reply, but ya I think sticking with no acceleration is good and just play with DPI will give the most consistant gaming/accuracy results.

Malpractice.248

United States734 Posts

May 04 2011 15:09 GMT

#94

Idk man, i use 3500 DPI and 65% sensitivity :/

Magictek

United States17 Posts

May 04 2011 15:09 GMT

#95

On May 04 2011 23:49 gronnelg wrote:
I tried removing acceleration, or mouse precision as win7 calls it.
I put the win mouse speed to 6/11
A few issues I'm wondering about:
The mouse speed felt so damn slow all of the sudden, that I had to boost the ingame mouse speed a lot. This felt fairly nice in the mainscreen, but turned out to be WAY to much on the minimap.
So removing acceleration seems to be a problem in mainscreen vs minimap.
Any similar experiences/advice?

I would not boost the ingame speed of the mouse, it would be better to increase the DPI on the mouse (assuming you have one that you can). I am not sure but if you do a software increase then it would be harder to select things that are closer together like on the minimap.

HaeHei

United Kingdom162 Posts

May 04 2011 15:26 GMT

#96

for me i am using razer deathadder 3500dpi and 53% on sc2 and did the same thing you did with win7 and mouse acceleration i did have it one before but now it is just perfect one way i got used to using this setup really fast is just to do some mouse clicking games such as osu! this really helped me plus just trying to adapt was hard at first but you just gotta keep at it if you want to use the settings you want

gronnelg

Norway354 Posts

May 04 2011 15:30 GMT

#97

I'm having a really hard time with lateral movement without accerleration.
Up and down is fair enough, but sideways is WAY to slow as the distances can be greater. Is there a way to make the sensitivity higher only on sideway movement?

Xlancer

United States126 Posts

May 04 2011 15:36 GMT

#98

When you turn off the mouse acceleration, you have to turn down your in game mouse speed by at least 10% I think I went from 72% to 53% when I turned it off. Micro is so much easier for me with mouse acceleration off

Stropheum

United States1124 Posts

May 04 2011 15:39 GMT

#99

I recently took off mouse acceleration as well. I had to actually up my DPI to get the same sensitivity feel. It took me a solid 5 games of over deliberate clicking before I got used to how true mouse movement works, but now I feel much more accurate, and also because of no acceleration, my hand doesn't slowly drift to one side of the mosuepad, and there's not picking up and resetting the mouse. really nice.

Bro_Stone

United States510 Posts

May 08 2011 19:21 GMT

#100

The key is to slowly increase your dpi, I started at 2000 and now play at 4000 comfortably