Best DPI for mouse

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I think my settings must be off somewhere. I was using 450 dpi with a 2 sens and it felt fine, turning my dpi up to 1600 makes it crazy fast. Im a bit confused here lol

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I just don’t understand how anyone can play that high. Like… what…???

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As someone who used to play at a very high sensitivity, the short answer is that you get used to it enough for it to be functional. You become convinced that your aim is perfectly fine (or even “good”) and that you just managed to do something most people can’t.

I lowered my sensitivity many years back by literally 1/10 of what it used to be. Best decision I ever made. The quality of my aim is night and day from back then.

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Whatever you choose honestly.

General rule is higher DPI:lower sens when finding a balance.

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800 and 4-4.5 for hitscans. Anything higher feels bad for shooting flying heroes.

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See i cant understand this how do you aim like are you throwing your arm around like i tried it and i have to say its the worst i tried

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You need a big mousepad and yeah

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Ya i have a small one and just use my wrist so i have 800 dpi and 25 senc

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You got that Haksal sensitivity. You should lower it if you play any other heroes besides Genji/ Tracer.

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i used to be able to play at 1600 but these days it feels to fast for me

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Lol all i play is genji rein and support explaining moira

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Polling rate is separate from DPI. They are two different things.

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For sensitivity, my advice is to set it as low as you can while still being able to do a full 180 turn in a full side-to-side wrist motion.

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Your sensitivity is often determine by two things, the first is aim method, and the second is the size of your mousepad.

My sensitivity is base on be being able to do a full 360° turn with a travel distance of 13" by 13". I’m using a XXL size mousepad (40cm by 70cm).

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Yes, they are different things, but dpi does affects the mouse polling behaviour.

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1600 DPI 2k polling rate (ROG gladius) 4.25 in game here. Supposedly 12 MS on switch latency but who knows.

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Good question!

The whole mouse Debate has lots of research to go with it, along with mousing surfaces and many other things.

I remember at one point we were talking about PS/2 vs USB mice and all sorts of crazy things that go along with the I/O bus on a motherboard.

My findings really come down to the first factor being the WEIGHT and the size of the mouse itself. VS just DPI.

If the mouse is BULKY and large. it often drags and makes those fancy follow-up shots really bad to do!

Second, Are the mice themselves. if they rely on SOFTWARE to be loaded onto the computer. There is a major difference between using the software and NOT. Which is the use of the software is VERY NEGATIVE. Since a person is waiting on the software to process the inputs. I’ve even had tournaments where an update of Razor software that would randomly conk out on me, and I had to uninstall the Razor software to get back into the game, so I could actually PLAY the game!

Other mice I don’t really like are products from BenQ. They have good sensors, but their design is AWFUL and they do NOT stand by their product if something goes WRONG with it. They will blame everyone except themselves. Plus the DPI switch on the bottom is just outright AWFUL.

The “perfect” mouse size is either the Razor Abysus V2 or the Logitech G203. However I wouldn’t rejoice their sensors for being “elite”. and Razor’s plastic “quality” is terrible. they just CRACk and break too easily. A G203 will occasionally SKIP and shows exactly what logitech is mostly known for which is sub-standard quality.

I haven’t tried “final mouse” but I hear they are super good.

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yea, weight is definitely important and is possibly the most overlook aspect of a mouse. Most people just assume the lighter the mouse, the better by default. While a light mouse is very good as it reduces the fatigue, it is also more sensitive to undershooting and overshooting if you don’t have concise aiming.

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yeah, but when i put my dpi to 1600 and 2 sensitivity, I can turn 360° in like 4 inches, it’s way too sensitive.

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check your edpi, it is probably too high for you. edpi = sensitivity x dpi.

If your original is something like 800dpi at 2 sensitivity, than if you want 1600dpi, your sensitivity is 1.

The most important thing is that your edpi should match well with what you are used to.