Is this okay?
Any type of performance hit/anything out of the ordinary?
To be more specific, I went to BestBuy earlier today to try out some mouses. As far as ergonomics go, the Razer Deathadder felt perfect for me. My hands aren't very big, probably below average. I can palm a basketball but that's mostly because my fingers are also very flexible due to piano and other things.
Anyways, I found the 3500 DPI setting to be a little bit extreme for me. I'm coming from a cheap, generic "Dell, by Logitech" optical mouse. Those silver and black ones that you get when you buy a pre-built desktop, circa the early 2000s. It quivers in-game sometimes when I"m not even moving it...and randomly stops working once in a long while. Anyways, how much DPI do these cheap, generic mouses generally have?
Whatever they have, I"m guessing a leap from the cheap mice to a 3500 DPI Razer mouse would be...huge and probably unusable?
Is there any penalty/anything bad that could happen from using the Deathadder at say...1600 DPI? Or something like that. Heck even 800 DPI? I personally don't know what DPI is most comfortable at the moment because all I've been using is cheap OEM optical mouses with mouse acceleration off in Windows. My hand is not rock steady but it's not horribly shaky either.
I play at a pretty low sensitivity, it's in the 3-4 range for CSS and 1/5 or 1/6 of the bar for CoDMW2. Mouse smoothing/acceleration and stuff off of course.
Windows XP sensitivity is set at 7/11 clicks, I'm not sure why its that high. I think I was fiddling around with settings but I've found this to be quite comfortable - I realize that its probably skipping pixels right now but for me it doesn't matter too much since I"m using a cheap generic mouse. I can change settings if needed later once I get a good mouse.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
P.S.
I was considering the MX518 because of its lower DPI but found the ergonomics to be very uncomfortable for my thumb, the thumb groove was weird to me. Also, it was a bit big and it looked...unattractive imo. Almost embarrassingly so. Too '90s g4m3r1337' for me. The Deathadder is also pretty gamer-ish but you can turn off the lights via settings and otherwise its all black with some blue highlights which is fine imo.
Also, I use one of those cheap, freebie textured mousepads that are not cloth ones, but instead some sort of thin plastic surface. I actually dislike cloth mousepads, though I haven't used them extensively so I don't really know. I was planning on getting a slightly bigger mousepad (since I need one anyways) that was of a similar texture, probably a Steelseries 4HD (hard plastic). Either that or find another cheap, free, hard mousepad from somewhere.
Any type of performance hit/anything out of the ordinary?
To be more specific, I went to BestBuy earlier today to try out some mouses. As far as ergonomics go, the Razer Deathadder felt perfect for me. My hands aren't very big, probably below average. I can palm a basketball but that's mostly because my fingers are also very flexible due to piano and other things.
Anyways, I found the 3500 DPI setting to be a little bit extreme for me. I'm coming from a cheap, generic "Dell, by Logitech" optical mouse. Those silver and black ones that you get when you buy a pre-built desktop, circa the early 2000s. It quivers in-game sometimes when I"m not even moving it...and randomly stops working once in a long while. Anyways, how much DPI do these cheap, generic mouses generally have?
Whatever they have, I"m guessing a leap from the cheap mice to a 3500 DPI Razer mouse would be...huge and probably unusable?
Is there any penalty/anything bad that could happen from using the Deathadder at say...1600 DPI? Or something like that. Heck even 800 DPI? I personally don't know what DPI is most comfortable at the moment because all I've been using is cheap OEM optical mouses with mouse acceleration off in Windows. My hand is not rock steady but it's not horribly shaky either.
I play at a pretty low sensitivity, it's in the 3-4 range for CSS and 1/5 or 1/6 of the bar for CoDMW2. Mouse smoothing/acceleration and stuff off of course.
Windows XP sensitivity is set at 7/11 clicks, I'm not sure why its that high. I think I was fiddling around with settings but I've found this to be quite comfortable - I realize that its probably skipping pixels right now but for me it doesn't matter too much since I"m using a cheap generic mouse. I can change settings if needed later once I get a good mouse.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
P.S.
I was considering the MX518 because of its lower DPI but found the ergonomics to be very uncomfortable for my thumb, the thumb groove was weird to me. Also, it was a bit big and it looked...unattractive imo. Almost embarrassingly so. Too '90s g4m3r1337' for me. The Deathadder is also pretty gamer-ish but you can turn off the lights via settings and otherwise its all black with some blue highlights which is fine imo.
Also, I use one of those cheap, freebie textured mousepads that are not cloth ones, but instead some sort of thin plastic surface. I actually dislike cloth mousepads, though I haven't used them extensively so I don't really know. I was planning on getting a slightly bigger mousepad (since I need one anyways) that was of a similar texture, probably a Steelseries 4HD (hard plastic). Either that or find another cheap, free, hard mousepad from somewhere.
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