I recently found the site prosettings which analyses most settings used by professional Overwatch players. I was surprised to find that 50% of pros use 800 DPI and roughly 6 in-game sense, for an EDPI of 4800. I’ve always played on 1600 DPI and around 3 in-game sense. My EDPI is roughly the same. Would trying 800*6 likely improve my aim, or will there be no effect?
who uses 800dpi 6ingame? I only know about Dafran and Kephriis settings but both of them use ca. 400dpi 8ingame
Apparently high dpi low sens can cause some pixel skipping as opposed to low dpi high sens, but as someone that’s using 1600/2, I’m yet to see any sign of that.
I don’t know how would you navigate between multiple monitors on 800 or 400 dpi. Sounds frustrating.
Huh, maybe I should go back to 47sens 2000DPI, instead of 26sens 3600DPI.
There is a bit of a difference in for example
3 sense ingame and 1600 DPI
6 sense ingame and 800 DPI
I use mostly 5.20 and 800 DPI, would not go over 800 DPI because it just feels weird. But that is me.
Point is if you lower your DPI by 50%, do it also with ingame sense 50%. And you somewhat have the same.
I’m still amazed that you can aim with that sens
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You got that wrong, it’s the other way around. Low dpi with high sensitivity causes that.
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Sensitivity too high and you get screen tearing. I use 1sens and 4750DPI but I play tank so aim isn’t as important for me. I do DPI switch to a lower one for arcade play when I pick a damage class.
I would recommend sinking some serious time into trying a tonne of eDPIs to find your perfect one. When you find your sweet spot (it might even be something like 1600DPI and 2.87sens) you’ll really be able to tell the difference when you play as anything slightly off.
Pixel skipping aside, mice tend to do weird things in the drivers past a certain point to allow for super high DPIs. Also windows sens only goes down so far.
EDpi is generally the only thing that matters.
One thing you need t be aware of, is pixel skipping.
Essentially with some sensitivity combos, pixel skipping will occur. Like 1000x5 might have pixel skipping, but 500x10 might be perfect, but they feel the same.
There’s a checker online. Just look up pixel skipping checker, put your in game sens, edpi, FOV and if the box is blue, you are good, if it’s red then try another combination.
https://pyrolistical.github.io/overwatch-dpi-tool/
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Do they do weird things at a high dpi or low dpi? I have noticed weird things about my mouse occasionally
Bookmarking this.
Awesome work, nice and easy test <3
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This topic is a bit more complicated because it relates to a seperate issue entirely.
While it is true higher DPI of the mouse allows more accurate posistioning the mouse surface players a major role in it also.
A mouse determines its posistion not just by the laser but points on the surface. Which is why there are performance gaming mouse pads which have very high surface visibility for mice.
With that said eDPI ( effective DPI ) which takes ingame sensitivity into account is simply a variable added to true DPI.
d * di
So in the end of the day it is effectively the same. The 2 most important determining factors not related to the person’s skill is going to be the mouse and the surface the mouse is on.
The skill of the person of course is a constant variable. You could give the worst player in the world, the best mouse in the world and still will do worse than the best player in the world with a $5 mouse.
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Tbh a good rule of thumb is, high sens use 800 dpi, low sens use 400 dpi
How to tell if you have a low or high sens?
If you move your wrist in flicking motion, do you do a 180 or 90 degree turn? There you go
More DPI does not mean better, it typically makes your mouse more jittery actually, because it affects mouse sensitivity, not accuracy.
Very high DPI, like 3200+
how tf?
I use 800/3.5
I can’t imagine 3600\26
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He’s quoted that sens before. I don’t believe him.
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that’s just an insane sens
3 trust level feels good
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