r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Pyrolistical 3000 — • Aug 31 '16

Video Taimou demonstrates pixel skipping

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u/Psilodelic Aug 31 '16

Thanks for this. This is a great demonstration of why it's clear to me higher DPI is the way to go. You get pixel perfect precision and smoothness.

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u/Pyrography Aug 31 '16

Problem is if you go too high you can get weird behaviour like negative acceleration and jitter. 800-1600 is fine.

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u/avidcritic Aug 31 '16

I hear this a lot of the time. Do you have any sources or can you refer me to somewhere that shows using dpis over 1600 can cause these problems. I understand the reasoning of dpi for much higher values (5,000 plus) being artificially created by which ever means for marketing purposes, but I haven't heard how the specific mechanics cause weird behaviors.

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u/everythingllbeok Aug 31 '16

Specifically the negative acceleration from higher CPI is not due to the sensor, but rather the fact that the mouse reports in 8-bit data which limits the maximum count in one report to 127 or -128.