Calibrating Mouse Sensitivity

(PuP) #1

We’ve all discussed mouse sensitivity ad nauseum, but I’m still puzzled at how people can play with such low settings. I know that the OS settings influence the game settings, so a very low game setting of 1.00 might be quite fast if the OS setting is super high.

Could people reply to this thread with both settings? I know that the device itself is a factor, but I don’t know how to control for this (I’ll assume that most serious gamers are using MS or Logitech optical mice, and that they’re similar enough in specs :))

To see your OS mouse setting in Win, run regedt32, and look at the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse\MouseSensitivity value.

My settings are:

            OS  : 10
         game : 8.0
(duke'ku) #2

OS: 16
game: 1.8 with cl_mouseaccel .18

(Salteh) #3

OS: 10 (no accell)
Game: 25.16666666666666666667

(/\ndy) #4

OS: 14
Game: 12.93

(BOOTSAUCE) #5

OS: 10 (no acceleration)
Game: 5.0 (no acceleration)

I’ve tried lower in-game mouse sensitivity, and I just can’t make it work for me.

Some peeps change their in-game mouse sensitivity dynamically, using scripts, depending on whether their shooting long or short.

(puubert) #6

I have the middle value for OS speed. Doesn’t have a value and I can’t find Regiedt32. As for the game, 10.52

(SCDS_reyalP) #7

I’m still not sure values are directly comperable, but FWIW
OS 10 accel low
ET sense 3.75 accel 0.16

(Hewster) #8

I’m pretty sure CPU speed is also a factor,
when I upgraded from my old 1400 Mhz Athlon to a XP2500+
I found that i needed to reduce my sensitivity.

Hewster

(Kendle) #9

OS: 10
ET: 2.8
Acceleration: 0.16

I’ve been working on getting my sensitivity down, and it has improved my aim, but it makes me less able to turn quickly so the 0.16 acceleration allows me to do a 180 turn as long as I flick the mouse quick enough. It’s taken me ages to find a balance that works, but this is about as good as I’ve managed to get it.

(Graballa) #10

OSP: 10 (no accelleration)
ET: 9 (no accelleration)

Used to play with it in ET at around 3 but had movement problems so a friend suggested I move up, he said he played around 9 so I chose that.

I’m sure my aim used to be better at lower sensitivity, or maybe that’s just wishful thinking. Might decrease sensitivity, ooh, we’ll see.

(Cerebrate) #11

WinXP: 10
Game: 2.0

I also use cl_mouseaccel 0.16 - there is simply no way I could play with such a low sensitivity without acceleration.

(pgh) #12

OS: 14
ET: 38 Long Shot/Panzer with cg_fov 90
48 Short Shooting/Jumps with cg_fov 120
no mouseaccel.

I use mwheelup to zoom reduce sense then mwheeldown to zoom out and higher sense.

(ETplayer) #13

dunno about my os, im at college at the moment

I know my mouse ingame is : 7,49 :chef:

(ToeD) #14

10 (no acceleration)
5 ingame (no accelration)
fov 110

(PuP) #15

Wow, this is quite a variety! Thanks everyone.

I am also trying to get my ‘sens’ lower, but I originally got frustrated when I had no acceleration. Perhaps I need to tweak that a bit.

Piggy writes: I use mwheelup to zoom reduce sense then mwheeldown to zoom out and higher sense.

FYI: I have 1 of 5 mouse buttons bound to a toggle for switching fov, sens, and accel. I remember a thread in some forum where a guy was asking how this dood he was specing could zoom in and out without binos. I now know what he saw (the fov changing).

(pgh) #16

Tbh ‘this guy’ was probably myself o.0. When you zoom and change fov it isnt shown on spectator. What he has seen was if you bind a key to “+zoom” eg, in my case when using FOps it binds +zoom to space… then all you need to do is press it and it zooms without having to change then “fire” binocs. It means say half way through a firefight and things get sticky a quick glance down, and hitting space then fire and releasing space means you’ve just set an arty off in about half a second and can continue the firefight knowing if you die, and say, a cov ops is grabbing your uni then he’ll more than likely go pop from your arty.

And for anyone elses info:

bind mwheelup “seta cg_fov 90;sensitivity <X>;echo ^7FOV-90”
bind mwheeldown “seta cg_fov 120;sensitivity <Y>;echo ^7FOV-120”

Also, anyone got the quick fix for a reload/team chat spam?

bind r “reload;wait 1;messagemode2 (say_team or whatever it is) >>> Reloading” seems to still come up with “>>> Reloading ^35417531” or smt. I had it fixed then it worked with ETPro then didnt. And another thing is my “kill;say_team >>> Selfkilled” seems to be picky whenever it wants to work. The kill bind works fine, it just loves to randomly work between ETPro and ETMain (same configs) as it chooses… and yes it is bound in the same ones and way. Any help would be great… :slight_smile:

(Kendle) #17

bind r “+reload; wait; say_team >>>Pointless Info Here<<<; wait; -reload”

and

bind k “say_team Goodbye Cruel World; wait xxx; kill”

replacing xxx with a number (start at 50-ish and increase/decrease in increments of 10) which is as low as you can get it and it still works.

(pgh) #18

Not tried yet but when I see that -reload it makes sense now :slight_smile: - And I dont think the kill one works, tried it before and all it would do was spam the text and miss the kill part. o.0

(Kendle) #19

Make the number after wait big enough and it’ll work. Start at wait 50 and work your way up till it does. But be warned, the bigger the number the longer it will take before kill executes, and you may end up missing your spawn as a result.

(Lanz) #20

Why the hell would anyone want to spam messages while reloading or killing themselfs? First on public servers no one gives a shit if you reload or kill yourself and if you play in a clan, the members should always cover each other anyway so the reloading part is still worthless.

Well my personal opinion is that you should stay away from as much “special” scripts as possible, stick with scripts that simplefy playing for you. Like class scripts and weapon switching etc. Everything else is pointless and irritating, especially messages that will be spammed repeatedly (at least you’ll irritate others with it).