How low could I go in terms of sensitivity or eDPI with a 17.7 inch mousepad?

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I tested out 2800 to 4000 and ended up liking 3,700. Since I still want to keep my DPI, yes I am going against your advice mostly, I did 3700/800 which got me 4.625 so I rounded that down to 4.62 with 800 DPI.

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If you find that better than you started with, that’s an improvement. But you’d be better off just creating a profile for Overwatch in LGS, and using sens 1, and the higher DPI.
It’s pretty easy to do: Go to the home tab, make sure “automatic game detection” is active instead of “onboard memory”; go to “customise buttons” and “scan for games” - double-check manually the path to the *.exe is correct, or manually add it if the scan doesn’t detect OW automatically. Then go to “customise pointer settings”, find your OW profile at the top, and set the DPI to 3,700 as you settled on that, boom - job done. You’ll only have the higher DPI when the OW exe is in the foreground. Assuming of course the “Default” profile is still set to the same as your normal settings, if not can set that to 800 DPI.

Using increased sensitivity to get the same effective DPI loses you precision and granularity.

And, of course, other games will benefit in exactly the same way as Overwatch does from having lower in-game sensitivity and higher mouse-driven DPI.

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Hmm, I’ll try that I guess. Thanks for the instructions

It scanned Destiny 2, Overwatch and The Witcher 3. Is it possible to scan Fortnite and Rainbow Six Siege?

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There’s a plus icon in “customise buttons” that will let you add new profiles, then you just click the plus that is in the window that pops up to point it at the executable files for those games on your hard drive.

Once those profiles are added, they should appear in the customise pointer tab too.

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Thank you so much. And I got it working :slight_smile: Right when I went into Overwatch the cursor felt much more sensitive as if the DPI was higher and return to normal after I exited. My only vent would be the menu of Overwatch uses 3700 DPI, but that’s nothing much. It’s now 3700 with 1 in game sensitivity and 3.89 scoped

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I just realized how I worded what I said wrong haha, Thank you.

I shouldn’t post befre coffee in the morning.

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Well, no. You do get “measureable” smoothing at around 2500cpi, and once you hit 6k you’ll be playing in syrup.

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The website for Steelseries specifically advertises no “hardware acceleration” for the Sensei 310 (and models sharing the same sensor and TrueMove3 tech) and imply a 1:1 count ratio:
steelseries (.com) /gaming-mice/sensei-310

Just to clarify for anyone else reading.

A quick Google on the topic does have Redditors suggesting SSeries’s pixart is a gimped sensor to introduce smoothing, but that sounds like a combination of hearsay and speculation.

I use a G502, which people seem to agree has no smoothing all the way up, so I really have no basis of comparison to make unfortunately; but I’m sceptical that even if small amounts of smoothing are applied at higher DPIs, which would minimise noise, it would be more noticeable or problematic than simply doubling (or even quadrupling or higher) the effect the noise you’re generating is causing.

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The SS and LT sensors are basically the same one, they’re somewhat customized 3360s. And yeah, you’re not going to notice it at normal resolutions, I just wanted to point out that there are limitations :slight_smile:

Edit: and I was refering to the Logitech sensor. They’re both smoothing, but a lot less than others.

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