gaming mouse vs normal

shadowcreaper · 23 Mar 2010 at 18:36

Pretty simple question, but so far unable to find a straightforward responce.

What is the differant between a gaming mouse, and normal.

From what i see the gaming is a lot more, quite a lot infact around £50+

Yet i unable to see what the differance is, i mean i hear sensitivity plays a part, but i pretty sure a sensitive mouse isnt the best as it anoying as hell moving your hand and mouse goes shooting off the screen

I wonder then whats the point?

Is a gaming mouse have some sort of better super fast connection meaning less lag time between mouse+USB in the pc?

Is it faster, ie i click and it responds quicker than normal mouse?

So far i have yet to find someone where it exsplains the differance other than "it more sensitivity" no youtube exsplains either.

help be good as i been told it good but to spend 3-4x typical mouse on gaming it must do something.(like unfair advantage.....in game)

Kill_Phil · 23 Mar 2010 at 18:41

theres no real difference from an exepensive normal mouse and an expensive gaming mouse, apart from with a gaming mouse expect to see more programable buttons.

the key feature of gaming mice is usually the price and this reflects the sensitivity, response time, and build quality.

so your asking yourself the wrong question, you should be asking whats the differnece between a cheap and an expensive mouse...

Ksanti · 23 Mar 2010 at 19:24

If you're at the point where you have to ask then you generally don't need a gaming mouse really. The high sensitivity only helps those who game nigh on 24/7 and go to tournaments etc. regularly, for the most part it's just what feels nice. Gaming mice tend to look more aggressive, whereas the standar mice all tend to look the same over £20, if you buy a nice gaming mouse it generally shows.

It won't dramatically improve your game (with a few exceptions like MMORPG's or RTS's with the Razer Naga) for a fair bit, but seing as it's the main thing connecting you to the computer, it can be nice to feel like you've got a quality product in your hand, just like a steering wheel won't really affect your driving, but it's just more satisfying holding a leather wheel than a torn pleather one, bad analogy, sorry, but you get the point.

Ch3m1c4L · 23 Mar 2010 at 21:12

more DPI = more accurate tracking for small movements as well as large ones. Although you will eithe rhave to get used to higher sens, or turn the software sens down. They also poll more often so pick up the amount of movement more often = more accurate again.

Build wuality tends to be better, they feel nice, much more customization on what the buttons actually do (and more buttons (mine has ten, if i include moving the wheel left and right) and I can change my scroll wheel from clicky clicky to spinny spinny. "On the fly" dpi adjustments = at thepress of a button you can change how sensitive your mouse is, which is useful for a game like battlefield 2 where you go between plane and chopper and tank and on foot, with different guns etc.

As stated above, you can get all of this on a "normal" expensive mouse, the gaming ones tend to just look a bit cooler (im a gamer, so their marketing rubbish works on me lol).

I even got work to buy me a G5 rev two as the mouse was so poor it was hurting my wrist....5 screens on a HP pos isnt nice.

shadowcreaper · 27 Mar 2010 at 18:55

cheers for feedback basically there isnt any "real" differance just more options and ability to move mouse using little hand moverment/wrist.

nWovance · 27 Mar 2010 at 21:09

MX 518 cheap, cheerfull, and as good as these stupid 5000dpi mouses.

Hotwired · 27 Mar 2010 at 22:35

To use the several thousand DPI some mice come with you need to lower your in-game sensitivity otherwise you end up throwing the cursor across the screen with rubbish accuracy because the crosshair/cursor moves so much with such small movement from your hand.

Which ends up at the same sensitivity as if you'd used a lower DPI on the mouse and normal sensitivity in-game... so you're only kidding yourself if you raise one and lower another.

If its a gaming mowse you pay for:

DPI (the con of if it's in thousands)
Moar buttonz
Adjustable stuff (like DPI, what the buttonz do, the colour the mowse glows...)
The brand name
Possibly the build quality (gamers plastic mice are still plastic mice...)

Some people want a mouse with buttons all over it for certain games or even for work purposes, the rest of the list is a bit meh.

I use 400DPI and slightly lower than normal or normal sensitivity in-game (CSS, Battlefield, TF2).

I currently DO use a gaming mouse (a steelseries kinzu) but not because I wanted to. My microsoft basic optical started malfunctioning so I tried the kinzu out to fix the issue. Fixed the problem but doesn't perform any better than the basic (only a bad gamer blames his mowse for his skill). I liked the higher microsoft mouse, think I'm going to hunt down another microsoft basic...