Mouse polling rate? DPI?

[larzan]

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I'm sure there are some people here who say it's crucial to have this polling rate relative and that dpi related to your fov and polling rate or whatever.
I don't think it's that important. It helps a little bit but only when you are top3 or something.
I also think SDL is fine compared to in_mouse 3.

1st world problems...

[esc?nebuLa]

Increasing the polling rate from 125 hz to 500 hz should be clear as day. 1000 hz, I would imagine being twice as smooth. (I can't get a stable 1000hz because of cpu bottleneck.) My advice would be to simply clean the mousepad surface and clean the dust/particles around the sensor and mousefeet. Also, try in_mouse 3 or in_mouse -1 for raw input.

Can someone explain to me what effects polling rate and low/high dpi might have on high speed strafing for example?

I think in cpm, you will notice more of a difference because of slow calculated turns. For the vq3 switches during padstrafing, you would ideally want to have a lower sensitivity and maybe lower dpi for accuracy. Personally, I use 1800 dpi with 1.07 sensitivity and just a little mouseaccel, which a lot of people would frown at. Not really the best for padstrafing.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/64210 ... ensitivity

Somewhat good article explaining how dpi and polling rate works for fragging, but for defrag it's obviously a bit more technical.

[琠灹㵥琢硥⽴慪慶捳楲瑰㸢㰊]

I use 1,600 DPI mouse with mouse sensitivity of 4, mouse pitch and yaw are at default (0.022), and no mouse acceleration!

[raack]

I experimented with some settings when I finally got a "fancy" mouse. I thought 1000Hz poll rate was great, but I had a problem with weapons, as they would continue to fire after releasing the +attack button (mouse1).

I ended up with
1600dpi / 500Hz / sensitivity 5