Gauging interest - Software to find your perfect mouse sensetivity

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One of the issues I've always had with FPS games is never being sure that the sensitivity is right - Is it too high, is it to low, is it consistent between different games? Recently I discovered a method for finding your "ideal" sensitivity. Its effective, but long and arduous and involves lots of going into the console to change settings. Its also subjective, because it involves comparing two sensitivities and deciding which "feels" more accurate.

I decided to have a bash at automating it to see if I can cure the subjective portion and its come along nicely so far - I've gotten to the point where its starting to work in a rough and ready kind of way, although properly ugly at this stage :) The idea occurs to me that if I prettied it up a bit, it might be of interest to others. Perhaps they might even be persuaded to part with a couple of quid for it. So, the question is, do I tidy it up and put it on greenlight? It costs £75 to submit stuff, and unless it gets enough votes to go on sale, its money down the drain, and I don't know if anyone would be interested enough to vote for it.

So I thought I would come here and get the game playing publics opinion. If there was a piece of software that let you find your 'perfect' (or close to) mouse sensitivity, would you use it? Would you vote for it on greenlight? Would you consider paying for it?
 
I have a piece of software with my TT esports mouse.

It has a graph where every axis can be changed to suit my needs. I can set anything and it displays my settings. Even pops up over my game if i change the dpi on the mouse. It lets me set profiles of different sensitivity, and i can switch through them with one mouse button press.

I can see it being appealing to people who game, but regular users, not so much.
Im not sure on the number of mice that provide software like this, but its worth considering beforehand.



All things considered. If i didn't have this software, i may consider paying for it if it does the job very well. Im sure there are free software out there that do mouse sensitivity, but as long as you can do it very well, i would throw a few quid at it.

Might also have to be able to set up profiles on it, different games require different settings, if you could automate it so that every time the game opens, the settings change, that would interest me.
 
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HecFam said:
I have a piece of software with my TT esports mouse.

It has a graph where every axis can be changed to suit my needs. I can set anything and it displays my settings. Even pops up over my game if i change the dpi on the mouse. It lets me set profiles of different sensitivity, and i can switch through them with one mouse button press.

I can see it being appealing to people who game, but regular users, not so much.
Im not sure on the number of mice that provide software like this, but its worth considering beforehand.
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I had considered this, but as far as I know, they only provide tools to let you adjust your mouse sensitivity manually, they don't offer any tools that actually help you find what the correct sensitivity is for you? Please feel free to correct me if that's incorrect?
 
Why not put a 'trial' or 'limited' version out? See what people think of it, it's hard to tell if it's something useful without trying it first.
 
Linkex said:
I had considered this, but as far as I know, they only provide tools to let you adjust your mouse sensitivity manually, they don't offer any tools that actually help you find what the correct sensitivity is for you? Please feel free to correct me if that's incorrect?
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Oh no, its all manual. But I switch around my profiles a far bit, when playing bf3 for example, i change my profiles like 3 times at various times so it would have to be rather situational to find my perfect setting. If the software is capable of controlling this, then perfect.
 
majnu said:
No. There is no such thing as ideal mouse sensitivity. It is all down to user preference at the end of the day.
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I think I've explained this wrong. Its not trying to make your mouse and sensitivity match some pre-defined speed so that everyone's mouse is exactly the same - as you say, thats going to vary from person to person.

The idea of this is that it lets you find your ideal sensitivity. Think of it like this: you load up the software and start aiming at targets. Every so often the mouse sensitivity changes a little bit and the software measures if you get less or more accurate. It then changes based on the results and keeps doing this until it find the sensitivity you are most accurate at - this being "your" ideal sensitivity. (BTW, that's not how this works, but it should explain it better). You would then use this information to set up your various games to this ideal sensitivity.

Basically, the problem it is trying to solve is finding what is most effective for the user and getting it set consistently between your games.
 
I think the software will just tell you what is best for you. Such as 800dpi or whatever and then you can change your mouse sensitivity to that in your mouse software.
 
BuToNz said:
Why not put a 'trial' or 'limited' version out? See what people think of it, it's hard to tell if it's something useful without trying it first.
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Because its not fit for public consumption - it works for me and thats about it. I will need to create custom art assets, menus, instructions - it will need a lot of work. I don't want to invest the time in something no one is interested in.

The problem is it only does one thing - finds your perfect sensitivity. Until it pumps that final result out, it hasn't really done anything for the user, and after it has, you don't need it any more. It means that either the demo does nothing, or has the full functionality.

Thanks for the feedback so far guys, its all good stuff, please keep it coming :)
 
I must say, if it is a one time use sort of thing, i wouldn't pay much for it to be fair.

I personally wouldn't pay much more than £1 say just to have it measured, i would install the software, use it once and forget about it. I think more features would need to be included to make it worth paying for.
 
I don't think you'd get much sales from it to be honest, it doesn't seem like something that would easily gain publicity. I would probably try it but not pay for it.
 
Murray said:
I think the software will just tell you what is best for you. Such as 800dpi or whatever and then you can change your mouse sensitivity to that in your mouse software.
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I'm sure this will divide opinion, so I'm not saying I'm right, or this is best, just its what I believe.

I hold the view that you should always run your mouse at the maximum resolution, and then use the in game sensitivity settings - this way your mouse gets maximum accuracy on how you are moving it.
 
HecFam said:
I must say, if it is a one time use sort of thing, i wouldn't pay much for it to be fair.

I personally wouldn't pay much more than £1 say just to have it measured, i would install the software, use it once and forget about it. I think more features would need to be included to make it worth paying for.
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I suspect a lot of people would hold this view - if I did sell it on steam, it would be priced (Assuming I have any control over it) accordingly.

Saying that, I may look at adding a feature where it can detect installed games and automatically change their settings to match the sensitivity it finds for you, which might add some value.
 
you leave your mouse at the same settings windows wise always !

then change your ingame mouse sensitivity . dont get the problem. adjusting your actual mouse settings to game is wrong . you adjust your game to the mouse settings .
 
~>Dg<~ said:
you leave your mouse at the same settings windows wise always !

then change your ingame mouse sensitivity . dont get the problem. adjusting your actual mouse settings to game is wrong . you adjust your game to the mouse settings .
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I'm definitely going to have to work on my description (I think it needs a video demonstration) as again, this is not what it does - Your correct that you don't change your windows settings, and indeed it doesn't touch them. The only thing the software changes is its own sensitivity, just like you can change it manually in any other game. Potentially in the future it may generate config files for other games if the user wants it to, but it would not make changes to Windows settings.
 
Linkex said:
I think I've explained this wrong. Its not trying to make your mouse and sensitivity match some pre-defined speed so that everyone's mouse is exactly the same - as you say, thats going to vary from person to person.

The idea of this is that it lets you find your ideal sensitivity. Think of it like this: you load up the software and start aiming at targets. Every so often the mouse sensitivity changes a little bit and the software measures if you get less or more accurate. It then changes based on the results and keeps doing this until it find the sensitivity you are most accurate at - this being "your" ideal sensitivity. (BTW, that's not how this works, but it should explain it better). You would then use this information to set up your various games to this ideal sensitivity.

Basically, the problem it is trying to solve is finding what is most effective for the user and getting it set consistently between your games.
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I can see how sensitivity affects accuracy, but high accuracy isn't achieved from shooting static targets.
 
Linkex said:
Saying that, I may look at adding a feature where it can detect installed games and automatically change their settings to match the sensitivity it finds for you, which might add some value.
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LGS already does that, but you still have to experiment with dpi and in game sensitivity until you find what suits you. But once you do it saves it to the game profile and loads your dpi setting, macros, button assignments etc when you load the game.

edit - Also how does your solution differ from this?
http://ragial.com/mouse/
 
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I thought all mice came with its own software to do these things now, i know mine does I can change everything, even per game. My software also searches for installed games and adds all the bindings so I can just drag them to whatever mouse button I desire.
 
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