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 Posted: Sun, 7th Sep 2014 23:31 Post subject: High-DPI mouse (Razer) experience & recommendations? |
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Hey,
I recently bought a Roccat Taito mousepad 400x320x3 mm with a slightly finer grained surface and my Razer Deathadder fucks it up every now and then.
When you play FPS/shooters-like controlled games, every now and then the cursor jumps to ceiling or floor and then ... goodbye orientation. 
I didnt have those problems with my Razer Deathadder using the Razer Goliathus mouspad with the "controll" surface.
So I bought the Razer Taipan (8200 dpi) for the "Big Rig" of mine for usage with the Roccat Taito mousepad and what can I say... those problems did not reoccur since.
However, I will still keep both, the Razer Deathadder and Razer Goliathus Control mousepad on my "Mini-Me" build/PC.
Anyways, when I set the DPI to 8200 in Razer Synapse, ... the cursor plays crazy, as if I increased the speed of it to maximum (in windows mouse properties).
But the sensitivity is still on exactly 50% as before (windows mouse control panel).
Now, I would like to know: is that normal? 
I would need to adjust the speed in windows to very low when I switch the DPI to 8200 in order to have the same "subjective sensitivity", but I always thought higher DPI just means higher precision, not automatically higher speed.
Currently my setup in Razer Synapse is on DEFAULT: 1800 dpi, 50% sensitivity in windows mouse properties, 500 Hz USB polling rate.
BTW, I ALREADY have rediculously low sensitivity setup in ALL my games. Even with all previous mice I used (Razer Diamondback & Fatpad).
I dont know why, first thing I have to do in every new game is lower the sense to bare minimum (and some games have stupid "quantizations/steps" of sense, hard to find the perfect setting).
What are your thought on that? Is it normal that I have to reduce speed in windows mouse settings when choosing higher DPI in manufacturer settings (or HW settings, some mice have buttons/switches to controll DPI on-the-fly)?
Happy for every useful answer.
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JBeckman
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| Posted: Sun, 7th Sep 2014 23:56 Post subject: |
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Someone else can probably give a better technical explanation about this but in short the higher the DPI the faster the mouse movement, there's some opinions as well that optical and laser mouse handle differently when it comes to precision but very high DPI will be a bit less precise.
There's no real advantage to using a high DPI as far as I know unless you want that extreme speed it gives, 800 to 1600 I think I've read somewhere were the recommended values although 3200 seems popular too.
(Polling rate is what could help but I guess most higher-end mice already use 1000hz.)
EDIT: Also just like RAM for laptops and VRAM for GPU's are popular selling points DPI tends to be used for that purpose when it comes to computer mice.
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Sep 2014 04:37 Post subject: |
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From my experience IR-only mice like Deathadder are garbage independent of manufacturer/branding.
The tech just isn't up to the detail unless the surface is perfect.
I really don't like to use any mousepads so having a laser is pretty much a requirement for me.
I have a Razer Imperator myself, which is a dual sensor mouse, IR and laser.
I have no brand loyalty to Razer, but after suffering decades of Logitech's crappy build quality and shitty drivers I needed a change and Razer seems to fit the bill.
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| Posted: Mon, 8th Sep 2014 19:13 Post subject: I have left. |
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