How Did This Mouse DPI Trick Stay Hidden For So Long?

Mouse DPI is so much more influential than it's ever been given credit for. From shaping the competitive scene to unlocking 'perfect' sensitivities, it has it all.

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[MustyPickle]

There's a solution to all of this where you can reap the potential performance benefits of higher DPIs. You can lower your cursor sensitivity on windows, and looting death boxes in apex, regular computer use, etc will feel exactly as if you were on lower DPI. I had a similar issue in valorant where my cursor was too fast to use accurately when Brimstone smoking/Omen Ulting for example, so I turned down my cursor sens and it worked perfectly. I'd like to add, and correct me if I'm wrong, but recent tests have shown that you need to raise your DPI to fully saturate polling rates especially above 1000hz. If you buy a 4k mouse and use it at 400DPI, you won't feel any effects of high polling rate. In most cases high DPI is just better.

[fleepity]

not all higher dpi players have their windows cursor speed to the default 6 like when i moved to 1600 i just lowered my cursor speed to 4 which feels close enough to 800dpi 6 speed

[gurjidzebuba]

what have i learned ? that it does not matter what sensitivity I am playing on, I just gotta find the one that I will perform the best with. Like bro yapped for 12 minutes to say absoloutely nothing.

[lilolepetey-]

Reason I play 400 dpi is because most games don’t allow you to turn the in game sensitivity low enough to feel normal. I play a wide variety of things so a low dpi allows me to play each game on a sensitivity that doesn’t fly across the screen lol.

[MarvoldX]

let me give you the useful information that you need to keep in mind

-lower dpi is better for one line movement, like verticality or horizontally just one line
(csgo, valorant...)


-higher dpi is better for diagonal games involved
(apex, the finals... etc)



-lower dpi is better for low res, since u will see it effect nore clearly (in csgo) but in (apex) it can be a down side if u use low res low dpi, since aiming and tracking will be hard
.

in short, if u find urself going left right in straight line hard, use low dpi
if not and u can do it with high dpi then use high dpi, since its easier to micro adjust with it, regardless the sensitivity

[kai]

He literally said nothing in this video what???? Changing your dpi is the same thing as changing your sens

[Log_Pile]

I have found this for myself in recent weeks, your videos are strangely aligned with my own experiments! Such a good video, loved this one

[GNARLYMIKEY_]

I use 1200 DPI. I feel like its a good balance between the 800 and 1600. Also has the best speed on windows desktop as well, as 1600 was always too fast.

[Goodwarrior]

I use 800 DPI these days, but not because it's the default. I used to use 4/11 in Windows instead of 6/11 and also used mice like the g402 which had weird sensitivity settings, I settled on 800 eventually because my main game over the past several years has been Dota 2 and 800 for me was the best balance between being accurate with my clicks and not fatiguing my wrist. Over time (and with the help of playing osu! a bit) I got very accurate with 2D movements on 800 DPI with a mostly fingertip grip, 1600 was uncontrollable and 400 would make my wrist hurt after playing for a while. FPS games are a completely different story though, in CS I vastly prefer lower sensitivities as it makes me way more consistent, my sens amounts of 59 cm/360 which is on par with most people using 400 DPI.

Honestly I think the biggest reason why Counter-Strike players use 400 DPI is because most of them play on low 4:3 resolutions (somewhere around 1024x768 and 1280x960), and using 800 DPI to move your cursor around the menu is indeed extremely awkward, so 400 DPI just makes sense there.

[Jakeryanu]

Pros set their DPI based on the game they're playing, the reason why csgo pros play 400 dpi is not because they are on a low sens, its because there is more pixel skipping on 400 which makes it easier to hold angles and lock the crosshair at head height. That is why they mostly play 400 dpi with a low sens and a very low resolution. Overwatch on the other hand is a game that is more suited for smoother cursor movement which means the pros are mostly playing on high dpi because it scans through more pixels which allows for easier tracking. The higher your dpi is the smoother the cursor movement is going to feel which is also why people on a high DPI tend to play high sens. 40cm/360 on 400 DPI for example does not feel the same as 40cm/360 on 1600 DPI.

[dinglingwang]

Can we just take one second to appreciate this mans fkn aim with the kraber and just overall.

[ViberzRL]

Any reason you didn't bring up the windows sens at all? I play 3200 dpi so my 4k polling hits its mark as often as possible but use a slightly slower windows sens because 3200dpi raw isn't comfy to use raw at all

[Xarniium]

I am using 1000 DPI on my mice for a very long time. Is there a downside for using a custom DPI setting instead of the usual 400, 800, 1600, etc.?

[aries]

I remembered that when I was introduced into pc gaming back in 2019, I was using G900 with 2000 dpi or something. I was playing cod mw with 4.9 sens and my aim was super snappy.

After several months I started to learn more about mouse sensitivity and switched to 800 dpi, also got a new mouse. For some reason my aim was off and I could never find that snappy feeling again.

I think I might to switch to 1600 dpi from now on and see if it could fix my aim. Thanks for the info~

[darkninja___]

11:00 I still don’t understand what this means. If changing your dpi vs changing your in-game sense create the same effective distance needed to do a 360 what exactly is the difference? Why would lowering dpi as opposed to your in game sense make any difference at all to your sense of comfort?

[darrkstarg]

My edpi is 800. I run 1600 sense on the mouse with .5 sensitivity in game for CS/CS2. I used an edpi of 1000 for years and just recently reduced it to 800. It feels so good! Using a DeathAdder v3 wired with 4, 000 hz polling rate.

[henrywooods]

hey struth, i love your videos. ive been following you a while, you have fresh take on a lot of aiming ideas and i like to hear your thought process on a lot of this stuff. however, something trivial and kinda silly thats been bugging me for a while, that i thought you might be interested in getting feedback on, is the song you use in a lot of your vids. it makes me feel like im rewatching the same thing over and over again. im talking specifically about the song you started and ended this video with. ive heard it in so many of your videos and it kinda makes me check out mentally LOL as weird as that sounds. ty for the vids :)

[skilifavas]

4:40 you are talking about mouse sensitivity while showing an aim assist gameplay which should be only available with controllers. wtf?

[kwinoh]

The reason I play on 800dpi is because it's pretty universal, I can turn down the sens in 3rd person games low enough to feel normal. I say this because I play with an extremely low sens in Apex with it being 800dpi 0.65 in game 80cm/360.

[ShinyyVAL]

Does this account for the possibility for increasing ones DPI and lowering ones Windows Mouse speed?

example: 1600->3200DPI
but windows sensitivity from 10->5

earning the benefits of lower input latency AND keeping the sensitivity at what it was before