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Brunei Darussalam566 Posts
Mouse acceleration is an annoying feature found in all versions of Microsoft Windows that artificially increases the speed of your mouse cursor based on how fast you move the mouse across your mouse pad. It sounds like a great feature in theory, in fact, Microsoft even calls the setting to “Enable pointer precision”; unfortunately it does the exact opposite and destroys any precision you may have had.
The game is plagued with inconsistency because moving the mouse from point A to point B is never the same. By disabling mouse acceleration, no matter how fast or slow you move the mouse, movement from point A to point B will be the same. This results in much greater accuracy, increased consistency.
To disable it from Windows, open up your Control Panel; from here open the Mouse panel, select the “Pointer Options” tab and un-check the “Enhance pointer precision” check-box.
That is only halfway there, since Windows also has a smaller mouse acceleration even if you disable it. You need to edit the registry to fully get rid of it.
(Works with XP, Vista and Windows 7)
1. Click Start button
2. Select Run
3. Type 'regedit' in the open textbox
4. Open the tree 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER', select control panel, then select mouse
5. Right clicking, modify the SmoothMouseXCurve and SmoothMouseYCurve hexidecimal values to the following:
SmoothMouseXCurve:
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
00,a0,00,00,00,00,00,00
00,40,01,00,00,00,00,00
00,80,02,00,00,00,00,00
00,00,05,00,00,00,00,00
SmoothMouseYCurve:
00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
66,a6,02,00,00,00,00,00
cd,4c,05,00,00,00,00,00
a0,99,0a,00,00,00,00,00
38,33,15,00,00,00,00,00
If done correctly, you will notice you are holding a more responsive mouse (if you have been playing with mouse acceleration turned on for a long time, be warned: it does take some getting used to.)
Please note: although this tweak is pretty straight forward, if you have no idea what the registry edit tool is or does, I suggest reading a basic guide first (such as: http://www.akadia.com/services/windows_registry_tutorial.html).
Cheers!
EDIT: If you're worried about editing your registry, this file does the above for you: http://www.nextlevelgamer.com/downloads/tweaks/mouse_fix_reg
And if you're wondering if it really does work..
On January 01 2012 15:40 HuK wrote:Show nested quote +On January 01 2012 15:35 Nick.TNA wrote:I'd be interested to know if pros play with mouse precision on or off. Any pros reading this that could shed some insight?  i think most play with it off obviously, last pro i think i remember seeing it on was whitera
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umm wow. Okay I am going to try this out. Let's see how much different it is.
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Granted this is useful information, but there are a few posts on TL about it already.
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shouldnt that be the way i want it? if i want to get somewhere slowly, i move slower.
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I dont have the " SmoothMouseXCurve and SmoothMouseYCurve " in my mouse thing T_T
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On January 01 2012 12:32 radiantshadow92 wrote:
shouldnt that be the way i want it? if i want to get somewhere slowly, i move slower.
But this is about aceleration not speed.
Try to make a circle with your mouse, and then start to move faster. The circle will be bigger, and you dont want that
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So can you explain why this makes the mouse more accurate?
I did it blindly trusting you ^_^, but I'd appreciate a little more info on exactly what I just did.
Thanks!
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I'd like to see the sources you got this info from.
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On January 01 2012 12:40 CrazyF1r3f0x wrote:
So can you explain why this makes the mouse more accurate?
I did it blindly trusting you ^_^, but I'd appreciate a little more info on exactly what I just did.
Thanks!
The way it was explained to me is that, with direct response (no acceleration) your brain only has to account for one thing: where you're moving the mouse. With acceleration, your brain has to account for where the mouse is moving and how fast you're moving there. This makes it inaccurate because if you're trying to play fast, you can't account on the fly for how fast you're actually moving, and therefore your accuracy will fluctuate, because you will be expecting the cursor to be moving at a certain speed where in fact it'll actually be moving farther than you want it to because you're moving too fast or shorter than what you're aiming for because you took too long to move the mouse. Conversely, no matter how slow or fast you move your mouse to a given location, you'll end up on the target every time. Also if you tend to move your mouse faster in one direction, say to the right, your mouse will move less when you make right hand movements and more when you make left hand movements, forcing you inevitably to pick up your mouse and move it back to the center of the mousepad, yet another thing that doesn't happen with 0 acceleration
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On January 01 2012 12:40 CrazyF1r3f0x wrote:
So can you explain why this makes the mouse more accurate?
I did it blindly trusting you ^_^, but I'd appreciate a little more info on exactly what I just did.
Thanks!
It's because it allows total control over your mouse, you can move from A to B with the speed you want. Otherwise you'd have to know how fast to move to a to b WITH figuring out the variable of windows effecting your speed. It's just you, not you and windows going from A to B.
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I honestly can't tell the difference between editing the registry and just disabling "enhance pointer precision." Are you sure it makes a difference?
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ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/software/MouseRegistryFix.exe
That does the registry fix for you, in case you're worried about messing up your computer like I was 
On January 01 2012 12:49 B1nary wrote:
I honestly can't tell the difference between editing the registry and just disabling "enhance pointer precision." Are you sure it makes a difference?
I'm noticing a small change after already having had enhance pointer precision off for months, the registry settings are also clearly different now. It won't be life changing, but every bit off extra precision you can get is welcome I'd say.
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I'm having trouble with this. I don't seem to have a pointers options tab under my mouse. I go to control panel > devices and printers > optical usb mouse... then im lost..  sorry for being dumb haha.
Edit: Also, does this have any affect on the sensitivity settings ingame? I remember reading something that any 00 or 05 setting had lost percision but not the numbers inbetween.
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On January 01 2012 12:57 Nick.TNA wrote:I'm having trouble with this. I don't seem to have a pointers options tab under my mouse. I go to control panel > devices and printers > optical usb mouse... then im lost.. sorry for being dumb haha.
Just go to Control Panel > Mouse (switch to icon view, don't use category view)
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I use a Logitech G1 (1000 dpi) currently on a screen resolution of 1920*1080 so I had to raise the sensitivity in the Windows mouse settings and I must say, it feels nicer with the fix applied, more precise.
I doubt you would feel much of a diffference if you use 6/11 standard sens though, with a good mouse and good drivers.
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On January 01 2012 12:59 rebdomine wrote:Show nested quote +On January 01 2012 12:57 Nick.TNA wrote:I'm having trouble with this. I don't seem to have a pointers options tab under my mouse. I go to control panel > devices and printers > optical usb mouse... then im lost.. sorry for being dumb haha. Just go to Control Panel > Mouse (switch to icon view, don't use category view)
Brilliant! Thanks so much! This is great. It feels super super awkward now though. Hah <3
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On January 01 2012 12:55 Saechiis wrote:ftp://ftp.saitek.com/pub/software/MouseRegistryFix.exeThat does the registry fix for you, in case you're worried about messing up your computer like I was Show nested quote +On January 01 2012 12:49 B1nary wrote:
I honestly can't tell the difference between editing the registry and just disabling "enhance pointer precision." Are you sure it makes a difference? I'm noticing a small change after already having had enhance pointer precision off for months, the registry settings are also clearly different now. It won't be life changing, but every bit off extra precision you can get is welcome I'd say.
Does this registryfix really work, can anyone confirm this?
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Yes its working. I'm using this for long time.
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I think this wont make a significant difference in precision for someone that has played with mouse precision for a long time (most have). There is a video on youtube that shows that mouse movement + keyboard actions basicly become and instinct when you practise it long enough.
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Day9 talked about it in one of his podcasts about mechanics but I never tried it out to deactivate mouse acceleration.
Now after reading this thread I gave it a try and wow..
I can indeed control my mouse way more precise but it will take like 1 week of missionred before I get used to it..
Thanks for the how-to!
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