Poll: Laser or Optical

[Tweaker]

What sort of mouse sensor do you like? Are you a high DPI gamer, or super low DPI for massive mouse swipes?

Windows DPI : 800
Game DPI : 800

 

[Kosmiche]

I have no preference, I'm using 2000 dpi.

How do I find out game dpi?

 

[Sin_Chase]

My latest mouse is Optical.

I'm not overly fussed what the tracking method is as long as it produces good results. The optical in the Deathadder 2013 is considered to be very good, hence why I went for it. If it offered the same performance in laser, so be it! 1800DPI, standard out of the box windows sens. Would probably consider myself to be quite low sens, not hugely but probably much closer to low than high!

 

[gropingmantis]

Optical (IMO1.1 450dpi) for gaming.

Trackballs day-to-day (Kensington Slimblade, Logitech M570)

 

[SilverTongue]

use laser personally, have it set to 2400dpi in both windows and in game, but then I like to make shorter movements

 

[adolf hamster]

no idea, but I keep mine set at 5600 constantly. probs about 1/2" physical movement to go across the whole screen

 

[snakefood]

I plug in mouse, and point and clicky at schtuffs. Mostly I play wow, so accuracy not really too important

no idea of my dpi

 

[RogerMesenseless]

G500 over here! (Laser mouse).

Not sure of DPI settings, but its the same in normal use and games.

 

[robin66]

I've found optical a lot better, on both my EC2 Zowie and CM Storm Xornet for FPS games in particular.

It just feels much smoother and more accurate using an optical mouse with a low DPI to me. In other game types, as well as in windows.

I run my EC2 at 2300 at DPI, and my Xornet at 2000 DPI.

 

[Kreeeee]

g400 3600 dpi.

I find lasers are picky about their surface while optical always works. I'm not really sure why we have moved on to worse tech.

I like to have ~1cm to move my mouse across the screen horizontally, and primarily play RTS games.

 

[Greeny1994]

Laser - 5600 most of the time, 8200 sometimes when sniping in Arma 3

 

[ConnectionFX]

Razer Ouroboros

1200 dpi Windows
2000 dpi Gaming
300 dpi Sniping

Will never use the huge 8200 dpi its capable of achieving!

 

[Kosmiche]

Ah I get what you mean about different dpi for windows and games now.

I just leave mine the same at 2000dpi which feels like a sweet spot to me then simply adjust the ingame sens using the game options.

 

[Kishywish]

Corsair m60 laser tracking.

No idea what the dpi settings are.

 

[panyan]

Laser - 5600 most of the time, 8200 sometimes when sniping in Arma 3

you use a higher dpi for sniping? i thought lower dpi would be better as you have more physical control over the pointer

1200 dpi Windows
2000 dpi Gaming
300 dpi Sniping

i also have my sniper dpi lower

 

[Rainagul]

I'm not overly fussed between the two.

However my DPI for pretty much all games is set at 800. Especially in FPS's, the accuracy gained by having to do bigger mouse swipes works nicely for me. Every now and then I will go up to 1600 if I'm having a good day and fancy some extra aiming speed.

 

[Sunbed]

Optical. Windows at 6/11, 1000Hz, 450 DPI.

About 70cm per 360 degrees in most FPS games.

 

[Hotwired]

I'm not overly fussed between the two.

However my DPI for pretty much all games is set at 800. Especially in FPS's, the accuracy gained by having to do bigger mouse swipes works nicely for me. Every now and then I will go up to 1600 if I'm having a good day and fancy some extra aiming speed.

Changing dpi messes with my muscle memory.

I stick to one setting.

 

[robin66]

Changing dpi messes with my muscle memory.

I stick to one setting.

I'm the same, I just find one setting I can work with and just stay with it.

Some times I adjust in game settings, but thats about it.

 

[Randomface74]

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