Mouse sensitivity for FPS?

chid76

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I had a mate come over to mine a few days ago and have a go on BF3 on my machine. We have been playing FPS's together for years, but this is the first time he has played on my machine and he was really shocked at how low my mouse sensitivity was set.
I have a MX518 and have it set to 1800dpi on my desktop and about 15% ish in BF3 and I find this works for me, now when he had a go, he had to set it to about 80% in game which I found really hard to get any sort of accurate aiming with and found myself almost spinning on the spot.
I know different people are used to different setting and it's just a case of what you are used to, but I am interested if I am a bit weird for having my mouse set so low that I have to move it about 3-4 inches to move from left to right of the screen?
 
Some people prefer low dpi settings and large sweeping hand movements, others like high dpi and twitch movements. I play with high dpi, most of my friends do, a few of them don't.
 
I never stray from my trusty 1200dpi for any game. Then again I think it's mostly down to personal preference. The most important thing is no form of mouse smoothing or acceleration.
 
My DPI is usually set at around 1800 normally and I use large sweeping movements, not a fan of twitching as much. As someone above said, I find it more accurate my way.
I turn up the DPI to 2600 in some cases if I need to be quicker and have opponents that are actually decent.
 
Your certainly not weird for using whatever dpi you like, your mate prefers his, you prefer your’s.
I myself like either 800 or 1600 depends on what I’m doing in-game, I find for covert style watching and aiming, lower is better. Getting around a map, generally higher settings is o.k. But as everyone says its your own choice and style..
I use mouse smoothing in-game (arma 2) but usually set in the configs to around 70ish, in-game settings are not very accurate..
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Dunno what I use, everytime windows boots, I hit my razer dpi button twice to make it more fast within windows then in-game I have no more then '4' sensitivity in CS:S / GO
 
DPI isn't technically the same thing as sensitivity. Higher DPI is better even if you like low sens (i.e. turn it down in game). Personally I like my sensitivity fairly high, but it's all down to personal preference of course.
 
I like high, higher than what my current mouse can deliver to be honest.

Much more accurate with my wrist alone and claw grip. Tried this whole "arm as well" thing and nowhere near as controlled, your wrist is a much more accurate beast than the other joints in your arm.
 
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I have a G400, it has DPI settings of 400, 800, 1800, and 3600

Before my MS intelliexplorer was around 800dpi and I thought that was fine.

I have upped the G400 to 1800 and now i have got used to it could certainly not go back. Its so much easier to use. When in BF3 i upp it to 3600 for the tank turrets because they are a bit slow

Saying this my mousemat is a guiness pint, shaped as a pint of guiness. Its not much wided than the mouse itself
 
I used to have it quite high but since I stopped playing for a while I turned crap at everything and now it's easier with a slower sensitivity. It's not so low that you don't even do a 180 with a full sweep of the mouse mat :p.
 
I prefer high dpi, low in game sens. Basically takes me two sweeps of my mousemat to do a 180, I find it helps me control recoil on guns much better.
 
DPI and sensitivity are very different.

I play with maxed out DPI and low sensitivity. It requires large movements but is very accurate.
 
R.P.L said:
DPI isn't technically the same thing as sensitivity. Higher DPI is better even if you like low sens (i.e. turn it down in game). Personally I like my sensitivity fairly high, but it's all down to personal preference of course.
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Not true. It depends on the mouse. All versions of the Deathadder for example track objectively better at 1800 dpi, even though the 3.5G can go up to 3500 dpi.
 
H2F Scott said:
Not true. It depends on the mouse. All versions of the Deathadder for example track objectively better at 1800 dpi, even though the 3.5G can go up to 3500 dpi.
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Interesting. I'll have a play around at 1800.

Still the point stands that DPI and sensitivity aren't the same thing.
 
Well that doesn't make sense, because then it wouldn't affect how well the mouse tracks, only how fast the pointer moved.
 
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