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8/8/12 at 4:50pm
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As far as I understand raw input means the game skips any in-game mouse settings and uses the raw dpi settings of your mouse, right? Since 400dpi are rather low for raw input, are higher dpi mice not the better option for this? Aren't the optical mice not at disadvantage then, since they work best with lower dpi? How do the pro's handle this?

As for games without raw input, does setting the mouse dpi as high and in-game sens as low as possible give you the best and smoothest result? And what about those optical mice, such as the Zowie AM, that has rather mediocre performance at higher dpi? Or doesn't that really matter and I can keep my 450dpi andadjust the in-game mouse sensitivity as necessary, without any real difference?
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8/8/12 at 5:04pm
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Technically yes, beacause raw-input bypass the windows-interploation and read the infomation (counts and stuff) directly from the mouse, but I dont know, in CSS I noticed alittle input lag by using the build-in engine raw-input added in the recent update.

sensitivty is just multiper for the DPI (1.6 its cased on m_pitch and m_yaw too, also for CS:GO and Source)

For direct-input (or) on 2d enviroment you also want to use the highest DPI for your taste and still keep the sensitivity on lowest as possible(thats the only reason I see why the laser benefits) - no interpolation (or) most angles possible, but you better not pass the 1000dpi value beacause you will have "automatic" negative accelration.

Also, its about feeling - for games which is recommended to play on lower 4:3 resolutions (CS1.6 for example), its more enjoyable to play on low dpi beacause its more controlable that way


BUT IN THE END OF THE DAY, go with what ever combination that works the best for you, do not care that much about technic stuff. thumb.gifthumb.gif
Edited by avinin1 - 8/8/12 at 5:10pm
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post #3 of 4
8/8/12 at 5:15pm
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Originally Posted by resis View Post

As far as I understand raw input means the game skips any in-game mouse settings and uses the raw dpi settings of your mouse, right? Since 400dpi are rather low for raw input, are higher dpi mice not the better option for this? Aren't the optical mice not at disadvantage then, since they work best with lower dpi? How do the pro's handle this?
As for games without raw input, does setting the mouse dpi as high and in-game sens as low as possible give you the best and smoothest result? And what about those optical mice, such as the Zowie AM, that has rather mediocre performance at higher dpi? Or doesn't that really matter and I can keep my 450dpi andadjust the in-game mouse sensitivity as necessary, without any real difference?

Zowie AM has mediocre performance at high DPI because of Zowie and whatever they have worked out with their OEM. Their target audience don't really much care for mice past 500 DPi regardless..

Laser or optical illumination.. it dont matter. Performance is limited by the hardware and firmware implementation.
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8/9/12 at 6:07am
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Originally Posted by resis View Post

As far as I understand raw input means the game skips any in-game mouse settings and uses the raw dpi settings of your mouse, right?
Raw input skips Windows mouse driver, but not in game mouse settings.
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