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[H] Best "Pro" Razer Death adder 3500DPI Settings?

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LingBlingBling
Profile Joined December 2012
United States353 Posts
December 26 2012 03:17 GMT
#1
Hello, I just bought the Death addy so many Team Liquid pro sc2 players use.

I'm having trouble figuring out the settings Liquid hero or zenio use for game play.

Note this is my first gaming mouse, I used crap microsoft wireless mouses prior so settings are something i'm new to, I hope this is the correct forum to ask about pro sc2 players settings if not, I apologize and mod can move to the proper forum.

I'm a player who Enjoys high sensitivity but want accuracy as well, I'm a zerg player low masters on HOTS Beta/Wol and been using crappy non gaming mouses lol.

I use a Lap top I play in 1366 x768 res windows 7 nvida Geforce sony vaio.

If anyone can list the settings team liquid players use would be helpful. I know for many its personal perf, but I'm trying to find the best if possible.
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DJFaqU
Profile Joined May 2011
466 Posts
December 26 2012 03:19 GMT
#2
You use whatever setting you're most comfortable with.
AllSalesFinal
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States211 Posts
December 26 2012 03:21 GMT
#3
There truly is no "best" settings. The best is actually what you are most comfortable with. Pick a DPI setting and play with it, if you notice you are going past what you want to click, tone it back a notch, keep doing that until you hit that sweet spot.
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Tenda
Profile Joined October 2009
United States146 Posts
December 26 2012 03:25 GMT
#4
I think you'll have a hard time finding the settings that progamers use. I've heard that if you want to get the best experience out of your mouse, you should keep the windows sensitivity at 6/11 (the middle tic) and only adjust the DPI to find the most comfortable sensitivity
Trion
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada291 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-27 03:13:30
December 26 2012 03:27 GMT
#5
Make sure windows sensitivity is at 6/11, and that SC2 mouse sensitivity. Change your mouse speed by changing your DPI. Also make sure mouse acceleration (sometimes called "enhanced pointer precision") is disabled. Other than that it's all personal preference.

Edit: 6/11 not 7/11, my mistake.
naggerNZ
Profile Joined December 2010
New Zealand708 Posts
December 26 2012 03:27 GMT
#6
It's really personal preference. There are so many tiny variables involved in determining optimal sensitivity that the only real way to figure it out is to try a bunch of different settings and tweak until you feel comfortable.

I would recommend, however, that you set it at a midrange setting and work your way from there, because super high sensitivity settings are generally less optimal in RTS games than in FPS games.
LingBlingBling
Profile Joined December 2012
United States353 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-26 03:29:36
December 26 2012 03:27 GMT
#7
Well than Thank you for the replies, I guess I have a long road of testing ahead of me (=, I was just wondering if there was anything special I can set to improve the control in starcraft 2, If its all personal perf then ok thanks I will test, This is my first gaming mouse ever, I been using standard reg mouses for the longest time. Even the placement of my hand on the razer death addy feels weird, the mouse is huge compared to the crappy small mice I have used in the past, I feel dumb like no clue what the proper way to place my hand on the mouse (= Guess I would have to get used to it.
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mtn
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
729 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-26 03:29:29
December 26 2012 03:29 GMT
#8
On December 26 2012 12:27 Trion wrote:
Make sure windows sensitivity is at 7/11, and that SC2 mouse sensitivity. Change your mouse speed by changing your DPI. Also make sure mouse acceleration (sometimes called "enhanced pointer precision") is disabled. Other than that it's all personal preference.


It's 6/11 if Im not mistaken(Default, no skippin pixels).

Also in SC2 range between 51 - 54% is the best, again, cuz you don't skip any pixels.( someone on TL like a year a go did a study on that ;p )
LingBlingBling
Profile Joined December 2012
United States353 Posts
December 26 2012 03:30 GMT
#9
On December 26 2012 12:29 mtn wrote:
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On December 26 2012 12:27 Trion wrote:
Make sure windows sensitivity is at 7/11, and that SC2 mouse sensitivity. Change your mouse speed by changing your DPI. Also make sure mouse acceleration (sometimes called "enhanced pointer precision") is disabled. Other than that it's all personal preference.


It's 6/11 if Im not mistaken(Default, no skippin pixels).

Also in SC2 range between 51 - 54% is the best, again, cuz you don't skip any pixels.( someone on TL like a year a go did a study on that ;p )



What does 6/11 mean in the razer mouse settings (dumb sorry) Does it mean x-y sensitivity is enabled and x is 600 and y is 1100?
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DarKcS
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia1237 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-26 03:34:13
December 26 2012 03:34 GMT
#10
No no no. Windows mouse settings, in control panel (not Razer) there are 11 notches, you leave it on the 6th and untick enhanced pointer precision.
In Razer, the 0-10 sens is up to you. I recommend leaving DPI anywhere from 1800-max, polling at 500mhz, then lowering the sensitivity in Razer until it's as fast as you need it.

Leave X/Y DPI identical...
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LingBlingBling
Profile Joined December 2012
United States353 Posts
December 26 2012 03:47 GMT
#11
Mouse acceleration I should keep at 0 ( off) for gaming correct?
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PandaTank
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
South Africa255 Posts
December 26 2012 03:50 GMT
#12
1800/3600 DPI will be enough considering your resolution, keep windows sens at 6\11, accel off, and SC2 sens at 51-55, the rest is personal preference.
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Kaitokid
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Germany1327 Posts
December 26 2012 03:55 GMT
#13
On December 26 2012 12:47 LingBlingBling wrote:
Mouse acceleration I should keep at 0 ( off) for gaming correct?


yep although there are good players who have it on, because they are used to it
crbox
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1180 Posts
December 26 2012 04:03 GMT
#14
as said before you have to use 6/11 (optimal) windows sensibility and the dpi is up to you. I personally recommend 1800 as it is pretty standard.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20326 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-26 04:10:34
December 26 2012 04:09 GMT
#15
1800/3600 DPI will be enough considering your resolution, keep windows sens at 6\11, accel off, and SC2 sens at 51-55, the rest is personal preference.


Thats completely absurd DPI.

With 6/11 in windows, enhanced pointer precision and accel disabled on a deathadder (no accel in sensor etc) you should only be using 400, MAYBE 800 dpi at that resolution.

A friend of mine got mouse, i gave him my sens reccomendations (using on-the-fly sensitivity to adjust from 1800dpi step as that has better sensor performance than everything else on the 3500) and he immediately lowered further to 4/10 sens (1800dpi*0.4) so 720 "true dpi", i use very close to that, but used to use lower.

At 1366x768 you have under half as many pixels on the screen as 1920x1080, so you need 0.5x the sens or true dpi to cross the screen in the same amount of mouse movement, so honestly if you want good settings just make sure you have 6/11 in windows, 51-54% in sc2, acceleration off, and use on the fly sensitivity to go to 1.5-3 sens. (270-540 true dpi) which would feel like ~580-1.1k on a 1920x1080 display would.

Sorry for confusing shit. We are both low master with good mechanics, i have >100eapm with protoss and ~160 with zerg.
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IndyO
Profile Joined June 2012
392 Posts
December 26 2012 04:13 GMT
#16
Even if it's personal preference I'd still be curious as to how fast pro's use there mice. I've heard FPS gamers generally use low DPI and take large sweeps, but RTS gamers don't usually follow that.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20326 Posts
December 26 2012 04:17 GMT
#17
^I think Jaedong uses around 1k DPI on 1920x1080

Exact mouse control is very very very important in FPS (your aim is everything in many types of games) so people put a lot of focus on it - thats not nearly as true in RTS, where you can use a wider range of settings, but mostly people at the top levels dont really know much about mice at all and just use settings that work, even if they are suboptimal or bad.

Its a really good idea to look to the pro's for a good understanding of mice in a game like counterstrike, but a really bad one to do it in starcraft, because other factors are more of a big deal in reaching the top of play, amazing mouse control doesnt come in til after you reach kinda the top level in terms of helping you play, where it can help take you a lot further
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PiQLiQ
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden702 Posts
December 26 2012 04:20 GMT
#18
Yeah you should just use the settings you like personally. Like if you want to know more about it you could either google or youtube it.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20326 Posts
December 26 2012 04:21 GMT
#19
^95% of the people on google/youtube dont have a clue what they are talking about (reviewers only talking about how the mouse felt in their hand or how 3500dpi isnt enough even though nobody in the modern ages uses more than 1.2-1.5k if accel is disabled properly and they are an at all competitive player)
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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-26 04:29:24
December 26 2012 04:28 GMT
#20
On December 26 2012 13:17 Cyro wrote:
^I think Jaedong uses around 1k DPI on 1920x1080

Exact mouse control is very very very important in FPS (your aim is everything in many types of games) so people put a lot of focus on it - thats not nearly as true in RTS, where you can use a wider range of settings, but mostly people at the top levels dont really know much about mice at all and just use settings that work, even if they are suboptimal or bad.

Its a really good idea to look to the pro's for a good understanding of mice in a game like counterstrike, but a really bad one to do it in starcraft, because other factors are more of a big deal in reaching the top of play, amazing mouse control doesnt come in til after you reach kinda the top level in terms of helping you play, where it can help take you a lot further

Even at the pro level, RTS players don't need the kind of accuracy FPS players do, whereas FPS players need a lot less speed.

Like most people have said, set your Windows mouse sensitivity to 6/11, SC2 sensitivity somewhere between 51-54%. At 1366x768 resolution, you really don't need high CPI/DPI and setting it higher won't make you more accurate, it'll just increase speed (which you can do from the Razer Synapse drivers.) Just adjust CPI/DPI and the Synapse mouse speed to whatever's comfortable.

The mouse should be set to 1000hz polling rate by default, so you're good to leave it there.
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