Have a gaming mouse? Turn down your dang DPI
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 3:32 pm
I decided to do some research to see what the best DPI is for gaming. For the desktop, the higher the better, within reason, if you do Photoshop type work.
I was using 1000 DPI on both my workstation and my gaming PC, but after reading a lot of articles about what gaming pros use, I brought it down to 750 and bumped up the Windows mouse sensitivity one to compensate(on the Windows desktop, I calibrate my mouse to let the full width of the mouse pad equal the full width of the screen). I may even go lower. As a side effect, this also helps with mouse settings in games. Because of the high DPI I was using, in-game mouse settings for all my games are down at the extreme low end. That's okay for games like Killing Floor 2 that have fine grained mouse setting increments of .1%, but a lot of games have a very course 10 increment mouse setting. For me, a lot of those games are difficult to setup the mouse for because setting 1 is to low and setting 2 is too high, and there's nothing in between.
Seems that most pros use between 300 and 800 DPI. However they also use MUCH larger mouse mats than we casual players do. A 2 foot wide mat is not unusual. Some players use even wider mats. Apparently pros use their arms more than their wrists for better precision (it's also easier on the wrist if you're trying to avoid carpal tunnel).
I may experiment with a larger mouse mat. I actually have a a couple of 35 x 16 gaming mats that I use for working on PCs on my desk, so I don't scratch the desk. You're supposed to put the keyboard on mouse on them.
Couple of good articles here if you're interested:
Have a gaming mouse? Turn down your dang DPI
https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/11/your ... or-gaming/
How to configure your mouse so it doesn't hurt you
https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-configur ... -hurt-you/
I was using 1000 DPI on both my workstation and my gaming PC, but after reading a lot of articles about what gaming pros use, I brought it down to 750 and bumped up the Windows mouse sensitivity one to compensate(on the Windows desktop, I calibrate my mouse to let the full width of the mouse pad equal the full width of the screen). I may even go lower. As a side effect, this also helps with mouse settings in games. Because of the high DPI I was using, in-game mouse settings for all my games are down at the extreme low end. That's okay for games like Killing Floor 2 that have fine grained mouse setting increments of .1%, but a lot of games have a very course 10 increment mouse setting. For me, a lot of those games are difficult to setup the mouse for because setting 1 is to low and setting 2 is too high, and there's nothing in between.
Seems that most pros use between 300 and 800 DPI. However they also use MUCH larger mouse mats than we casual players do. A 2 foot wide mat is not unusual. Some players use even wider mats. Apparently pros use their arms more than their wrists for better precision (it's also easier on the wrist if you're trying to avoid carpal tunnel).
I may experiment with a larger mouse mat. I actually have a a couple of 35 x 16 gaming mats that I use for working on PCs on my desk, so I don't scratch the desk. You're supposed to put the keyboard on mouse on them.
Couple of good articles here if you're interested:
Have a gaming mouse? Turn down your dang DPI
https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/11/your ... or-gaming/
How to configure your mouse so it doesn't hurt you
https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-configur ... -hurt-you/