Okay so I’m having some serious game-breaking problems with my mouse sensitivities in Overwatch.
I’ll go into the training range: everything will be fine. Mouse sensitivity is normal and what I have it set to.
Game browser? Mouse sensitivity is normal and what I have it set to.
Entering a Quickplay match? Mouse sensitivity is suddenly and noticeably lower for no discernible reason whatsoever.
No DPI switches are enabled on my mouse, it is set to a constant 350 DPI.
The sensor is regularly cleaned and cared for.
But without fail, as soon as I enter a game of Quickplay (Maybe competitive too, but I don’t DARE enter competitive with a mouse sensitivity that makes it difficult to turn around, much less aim), my sensitivity is suddenly way off to what I have it set to. Every time.
Below is a video taken directly before the writing of this post.
The sensor was carefully cleaned beforehand, and no mouse buttons besides left click were pressed (in order to navigate menus). The mouse is moved from the furthest left of my mousepad (right up against my keyboard) to the furthest right of my mousepad every time, starting from a stagnant position.
The mouse is a Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum RGB Tunable Gaming Mouse, and has the Logitech Gaming Software enabled with a profile for Overwatch (giving it custom keybindings for things like sprays and emotes. Still no DPI buttons.). Below will be screenshots of my mouse settings and in game sensitivity settings.
I cannot play the game with such wildly differentiating and random mouse sensitivity, please help me fix this issue as soon as possible.
Additional note.
I was curious to if it was reacting poorly to 350 DPI specifically and setting it to like, 300 somehow, so I set it to 400 and readjusted my in game sensitivity to 13.13 (to get the same eDPI) and did the same test.
Same problems.
I see some frame drops in the QP game. Can you do the same tests from practice to QP with capped 120 FPS?
I went down to 100 just to be safe.
It helped a bit, I seemed to be more accurate to the normal sensitivity, but I still experienced weird mouse issues, including about 4 seconds during a game of quickplay in which my mouse sensitivity quadrupled (yes. Quadrupled. Or at least, increased to the point where it felt like it did), so I am not sure if that is the cause or just coincidence.
Edit: Forgot to mention I also raised and lowered the FPS counter in the game, and noticed no difference between 100 and 150 weird sens when doing so.
Does the SIM value increase during that weird sens decrease? Press ctrl + shift + n in game and observe how the SIM value behaves in practice + QP. Is there anything that changes in that graph?
Just for testing purposes could you lower the polling rate from 1000 to 500?
I didn’t seem to have many outstanding issues in the two games I played, however I did manage to catch one low sensitivity spike, and during that time my SIM did rise from it’s normal 13-16 range to 20-26 during it’s duration. I didn’t see if my frames dropped alongside it, as I was more watching the netgraph at the time, I’m not sure if they did.
This was on 150fps cap with the 500 poll.
Unrelated note: It’s really hard to aim with the netgraph up.
That SIM spike usually happens if the FPS drops a little bit. Most likely caused by a programm running in the background causing some CPU load spikes. From what i understood it was running better this time right? Could you close all background apps like the battlenet launcher skype discord etc and test again? Also cap the FPS to a slightly lower number and use taskmanager to change overwatch.exe CPUs priority from normal to high.
Insted of quickplay to test your fps, fill a custom game with hard bots on a huge map.
To stress your pc even more, change stettings to spawn with ultimate and boost ultimate generation to the top. Make everyone invincible and run into the fight. With all bots lucio/zarya, it will surely stress things out even more.
