This is what gets my goat mainly-- People say that high dpi sensors are useless and everybody should play at low DPI because it's better. If you google you find a bunch of threads where lemmings say "pro gamers use 400 dpi and minimum sensitivity!!" Why do we care what "pro gamers" do? Every day they're still playing the same games they did a decade ago, on 15" CRTs! They've turned themselves into honed Quake playing machines, so how is that relevant to regular people? On that note, it seems likely that the low DPI tradition is a relic from the days when the only choice WAS 400 dpi. Until maybe 8 years ago, the only way you could do high sensitivity was to turn up the speed in Windows or in the game, which of course skips over pixels. So of course if you learned to game at 400 dpi you can't easily adapt to higher DPI (I didn't because I didn't know interpolation of pixels was happening so I always maxed my Windows slider)
High DPI isn't useless at all if you like high sensitivity. Low DPI is useless if you like high sensitivity, and high DPI mice can all have their DPI set lower for hamfisted flail-mousing ogres!
your post makes zero sense. :/
first off, we use (d) CRTs because the response rate is far better, and they dont have input lag.
we got good at quake because that was the game you'd play, but any of these people can destroy you in *any* game you'd chose to play, be it BF4, CoD, Arma, whatever.
now, for the fun:
DPI has NOTHING to do with sensitivity. having a mouse with 10.000dpi doesn't change how fast it moves the crosshair, your SENSITIVITY does.
ofc sens x dpi = speed. and maybe you keep a game's original sens value with a 1600 dpi mouse, and good luck aiming with that.
"pro" players use low sensitivity because it allows to make smaller movements AND big movements on the same mat. this is the same reason why you have a steering wheel in cars and not a joystick. humans are not capable of fine control as required by HARD games, and so they lower the mouse's response, making the small moves on the monitor BIGGER on the mat.
for example, my sensitivity in quake is 1.68 x 900 DPI x 75%.
if i get a mouse with 1800 dpi, i would use 0.84 x 1800 x 75% and get the same exact value.
what matters to me is how many cm i need to make a 180 turn. again, the reasoning is inverse: with 1cm movement, i will move a few pixels.
if my sens was much bigger, say 4x, and i needed to move the same number of few pixels, i would NEED to move the mouse only 1/4 of a cm.
again, humans dont have such fine motor control, and this is while practicing. when someone is shooting at you, your screen is shaking, you made positional mistakes, there's smoke, noise, and you have a fraction of a second to respond to a target you haven't acquired yet, your fine aim goes to shits.
and there is your answer - extended version.
but i like the short one better. "are you a high sens player? if yes, then you are probably a noob."
i'll gladly meet you ingame ; quakelive.com IGN: GnGBnG
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