In-game sensitivity is a multiplier. It takes the counts of movement recorded by mouse and multiplies it to determine the final distance your cursor moves.

DPI or CPI = Dots/Counts per inch. CPI basically is the number of units the mouse splits an inch into. So if you have a CPI of "1,000" your mouse records 1,000 movement units, and tells the cursor to move 1,000 pixels. So, using an in-game sensitivity of "1.0" and a CPI of "400", if you move your mouse one inch your view will move 400 pixels on your display.

If your sensitivity is too high (above 2.7128 for 1920x1080 displays), you will be unable to move your view by one pixel at a time, even with the slightest movement--this is called "pixel skipping".

Do note that higher DPI is not always better. Certain mice have "native" DPI steps which you should use. Most mice also get tracking errors at lower speeds with higher DPI's. And as was mentioned, on multimonitor displays it can cause your cursor to fly onto the other screen out of game (this can be rectified with an .exe called "CursorLock" btw).

So...use the in-game sensitivity that will allow you to use a native DPI step while keeping your in-game under 2.7128 (for other resolutions, use this to calculate the number).

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Mixset (music).

Devil's Advocate here...

In HL, at least, demo and hwg are considered the "power classes." Losing one of them is a bigger deal than say your soldier or scout. Maybe this is a class balance update, meant to spread out the distribution of importance amongst the classes. We've become accustomed to the paradigm of not all classes being created equal, when that's not the guiding philosophy at the game's heart.

If you've been playing since launch, you have to understand that Valve has always been making dramatic changes like these, and they take their time before they do. We get upset, we adapt, we move on.

I'd go with whichever suits your grip best. Do go with the 3.5g if you decide on the DA, as it has a superior sensor.

The g502 had great potential, but I can't recommend it at all...

-The one I tried would skip consistently when moved rapidly to the left, no matter the surface.
-The metal mouse wheel has so much play it actually rattles when the mouse is moved quickly and stops.
-It is excessively heavy.

What kills me is the sensor really is immaculate at all DPI's when it isn't malfunctioning, the buttons are well-placed, it has side and "free" scroll, good macro abilities, and the grip is divine for hybrid clawers like myself :/ Coulda been a classic.

I recommend Zowie.

The only thing worth talking about here is the precedence this incident sets for the UGC rules. I take full responsibility as my team's captain for not thinking to involve an admin during the pause, but we did have the rules page pulled up and simply followed them exactly as they were stated (we gave the pause extra time, but whatever).

Yes, our teams have some serious issues with each other. I'm not going into why we decided not to give GC anything more than the rules allowed, because that's between us. Squabbling over details of who's a shittier sport to protect my "rep" isn't my cup of tea. Gobble up what drama you can while you can.

Rematch is Sunday. Should be an exciting round.

Ruwin is a really, really nice guy. I feel I know him well, and he has always been exceedingly kind, encouraging, and helpful. He doesn't need me sticking up for him, but as a friend and as a streamer who's been through similar controversy, I feel compelled to step in.

Before you start judging him, just realize that you're doing so based off a glimpse. I think that's silly and gratuitous. You're attacking and defining someone for one minor fuck up; I believe in being much more skeptical and forgiving than that.

Jump on this bandwagon if you want, but just know you're losing a bit of your dignity.

Hang in there. Life surprises you. No matter how hopeless things may seem, they simply cannot stay the same forever. Fight for yourself, touch the world.

I wish I could go into my own experience with depression, but suffice to say, I know what you're going through, and I promise, it will be ok and you will be a stronger, better person for this hardship. Someday you may value these times for where they take you.

Tangent: get the Unixonar third party drivers.

Among other things they fix and improve Dolby Headphone surround and dramatically reduce DPC latency.

Proper surround sound settings:
Channels: 6
DH: DH-1, 7.1 Surround Shifter on with Unixonar addon config
Bit depth/Sampling Rate: 16/44.1

Put +snd_surround_speakers 5 in your launch options and enjoy :)

Are you asking what your inches/360 should be, or what your DPI/in-game sensitivity configuration should be?

Measure your inches/360 and tweak your sensitivity till it matches up!

Alright then, thanks for all your helpfulness :)

Sorry to pick your brain so much, but one more big question:

Would you go with 2300 DPI (with jitter) or 1150 DPI (with increased latency)?

Thanks so much.

I had the Savu but it didn't work out--I think the grip was too small or something and the LOD was huge (didn't know about the tape trick back then). The thread in the OP says it can malfunction at faster speeds, too.

I'll give the Kone Pure Optical a go next! Thanks very much for the insight.

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Thanks, very interesting stuff.

I've never heard that interpolation adds latency--you're saying it's about the difference between 500hz and 1000hz, which does concern me a bit. The lowest dpi step has
indeed been reported to have noticeable input latency.

Why wouldn't Zowie use native dpi steps?

Also, would only 2300 dpi really cause jitter? That's pretty low. I'd try the middle step, but I'm already using a pretty high in-game sensitivity (3.33 at 2300 dpi) and I don't want to start skipping pixels. Of course, I'd like minimal latency, too.

Despite all this, I do prefer the Zowie's tracking to the SteelSeries Rival (3011 sensor) and Deathadder 2013, as the smoothing on those is noticable--and according to the linked thread the g400 is just as bad, in that respect.

I'd really like to know if there's a mouse with superior tracking before I get too invested in the EC2. Do you have any particular recommendations? Any insights into the Kone Pure Optical?