I usually play OW at 1000 DPI
For borderlands 2 I had to set it at 800 because even at the lowest the sensitivity was a tad too high.
So I was jumping between the games and the game on WP:G I was laser. We are talking 42-45% accuracy and everyone was dropping like flies left right and center. after I closed the game, I look down at my mouse to see it at 800 DPI
then it strikes me, most streamers play at 800 DPI too, and many others have said its their sens as well.
So, is this true, is 800 DPI the best for OW?
Real pro gamers play at 200 DPI and 0.5 sens for maximum precision. Anything more is pleb talk.
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800 DPI is the default standard that most mice ship with. It doesn’t make it a magical number, it’s just convenient to have.
You can halve the in-game sensitivity and double the DPI to 1600 (or quarter and quadruple), and it gives you the same eDPI, same turning radius, and same cm/360° , but with the added benefit of more data being sent over to the game which reduces the chances of pixel skipping.
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In truth, it doesn’t really matter. You might see minor improvements, but ultimately it’s player skill.
eDPI is the only real thing that matters, but pixel skipping is a valid reason to not use lower DPI.
The smaller your mouse movements are, with a lower DPI, the mouse doesn’t send that data over because the smaller movements are treated as noise instead of actual movement, and filtered out.
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That explains a lot of things then.
This is why I was playing at 1000
I used to play at 1200 earlier
Most FPS games are designed with a 34.64 cm/360, so whatever default the sensitivity slider is in-game, with 800 DPI, that is how many centimeters it takes to spin 360 degrees.
If you stick with multiples of 800 for your mouse setting DPI, it’ll be very easy to cancel out pixel skipping by simply halving and doubling number values of in-game sens and mouse DPI.
There are some exceptions, when older mice shipped with 400 DPI sensors, and older games used that as the starting point for eDPI. But even then, it’s just another doubling/halving to get the numbers you want.
The thing is, only the DPI has changed.
I have stayed at the same 4.30 across all three DPI’s
but the sense of directness gets better
Sounds to me you found your sweet spot then.
https://pyrolistical.github.io/overwatch-dpi-tool/
Fiddle around with this calculator tool. You want blue boxes for your monitor’s resolution.
You currently have a 32.22 cm/360, however at 1000 DPI you ARE introducing some pixel skipping at 1080p.
At 800 DPI, your in-game sensitivity should be 5.375 to get the same exact turning cm/360 in-game. You can use 1600 DPI and 2.6875 to get the same with no pixel skipping.
Or maybe it could be because I am playing a LOT of tracer in DM rn and the lesser DPI is helping