I Made A Shocking Discovery Today. (A Story)

(APRenpsy) #1

It all begins back when I had completed the building of my new PC, the one I’m using right now.

Before this PC I used a laptop in order to play my video games. Back then my aim was spot on and deadly, they call me “Deadshot” (Not Really). So back then I was happy and content with my gaming life, then everything changed when I started using the new PC as my gaming station.

My aim sucked and was extremely horrible, it was all over the place, even though I was using the same settings as when I played on my laptop. I tried everything from change my sensitivity to my fov to my dpi. Nothing worked…

And so I accepted my faith as a now no aim FPS gamer. Over the years I grew use to it and eventually my aim recovered mostly still only a shadow of its former self.

That was until today I discovered with rage and shocking realization that there was a reason why my aim never recovered to what it once was in the past…

In my control panel looking at my mouse option, it looked straight at me, mocking me.

FOR TWO YEAR I HAVE HAD ENHANCE POINTER PRECISION CHECKED! F!@# YOU DEFAULT WINDOWS SETTINGS!!!

(N8o) #2

Man, that was a wild ride of emotions.
A better love story than Twilight, really.

(HonourBound) #3

I have always played PC but recently bought a laptop to work at university and also game on it from time to time (but mainly game on my pc still :smile: )

so I guess i’m kinda backwards to this story? amyway, Going from PC to laptop is really weird, I don’t mind the smaller keyboard compared to my mechanical one and I can still play with it. I also brought the exact same mouse and use the same dpi on it as my pc ^^

However the only things that are weird are the lower screen size @ the same resolution (24" v 17.3" @1080p) and not so much the refresh rate (144hz v 60hz) even though 144 is way better :smiley: but the response time of the laptop monitor is considerably higher (maybe 5~7ms compared to <1ms)

Main point: i noticed my aim was awful and despite doing my standard routines of registry hacks to fix mouse acceleration in windows and grabbing all my applications I still felt something interfering

I also had enhance pointer precision enabled (by accident). This was obviously an oversight by me and now I look forward to playing just as good as I normally do on my PC

Basically, this thread helped me figure out my problem that you also had, so thanks :wink:

TL/DR: thanks for saying about this I didn’t realize it was enabled for me either, now i can play properly on my laptop :smiley:

(Jostabeere) #4

Damn you cheaterz and your third-party stuff :wink:

(fubar) #5

No offense but if it takes you 2 years to realize you had mouse accel on, it very likely wont make a difference at all. You got used to it, you’ve trained yourself to use it.

It’s all in your head m8.

Note: I’m not saying there wont be a difference in play, there definitely will. Just as changing sensitivity does. But mouse-accel is not the evilnazizombieofdoom people make it out to be. It can be controlled and managed.

(APRenpsy) #6

[quote=“fubar;122202”]No offense but if it takes you 2 years to realize you had mouse accel on, it very likely wont make a difference at all. You got used to it, you’ve trained yourself to use it.

It’s all in your head m8.

Note: I’m not saying there wont be a difference in play, there definitely will. Just as changing sensitivity does. But mouse-accel is not the evilnazizombieofdoom people make it out to be. It can be controlled and managed. [/quote]

I was exaggerating a bit :stuck_out_tongue:

(Amerika) #7

I was under the impression that DB didn’t care about windows mouse settings. Especially so if you had any 3rd party mouse software installed.

I was riveted by your story though. A++

(HunterAssassin5) #8

mark another reason to hate microsoft.

(srswizard) #9

I think I’ve read this story somewhere before.
Is this a copy pasta, or just a common thing?

Being aware of this thing, it was one of the first things I fixed, after getting OS installed on this new PC.

(InfernoKun) #10

Moment of silence for Renpsy’s aim.

(MarsRover) #11

How could you not notice? Every time I use someone’s PC it is immediately obvious whether or not it’s enabled. “Ok, I’ll just close that window” - I move my had energetically and the cursor shoots out and arrives at the top right corner before my hand moved even half of the expected distance. If I’m going to use the PC longer than 5 minutes I always turn that shit off.

It’s fine when using a touchpad but with a mouse - hell no.

(SteelMailbox) #12

After reading your story I went to my control panel/mouse and saw that I had it checked for 4 years…

(Izzy) #13

I have it too. But it seems to just decrease the sensi. I have my sensi almost to the max in DB, and in the mouse control panel, which compensates. Sooo, where’s the problem in the end?

(SpectraBlitz) #14

Dammit after reading this I realised I had done the exact same thing moving from laptop to pc (although its only been a few weeks).
No wonder I’ve been struggling to track so much.

(Captain_Forward) #15

Just checked. Yes, I have that enabled too. But I had it for many years, so I won’t change anything now.

(Faraleth) #16

Happened to me a little while ago too… Turned it off maybe 2 months ago after realising I’d had it on for nearly 6 months since a Windows reinstall (so everything went back to defaults). Yes - it was a very emotional time.

(TheAcidpiss) #17

[quote=“fubar;122202”]No offense but if it takes you 2 years to realize you had mouse accel on, it very likely wont make a difference at all. You got used to it, you’ve trained yourself to use it.

It’s all in your head m8.

Note: I’m not saying there wont be a difference in play, there definitely will. Just as changing sensitivity does. But mouse-accel is not the evilnazizombieofdoom people make it out to be. It can be controlled and managed. [/quote]

the deference should be huge after a while, you can never attain true muscle memory with mouse acceleration.

(LifeupOmega) #18

Every few months I check just because it has a habit of turning itself back on. You definitely know when its back.

(SiegeFace) #19

It seems windows kindly put that setting back on for me, after 2 of my harddrives went bye bye… thank you windows, thank you for all the rage you caused me for the last month and a half…fml

(Amerika) #20

[quote=“TheAcidpiss;122346”][quote=“fubar;122202”]No offense but if it takes you 2 years to realize you had mouse accel on, it very likely wont make a difference at all. You got used to it, you’ve trained yourself to use it.

It’s all in your head m8.

Note: I’m not saying there wont be a difference in play, there definitely will. Just as changing sensitivity does. But mouse-accel is not the evilnazizombieofdoom people make it out to be. It can be controlled and managed. [/quote]

the deference should be huge after a while, you can never attain true muscle memory with mouse acceleration.
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It depends on the type of accel. I used to use accel on quite a few of my weapons in Q3 since you could add values like that to each weapon (along with changing your fov, drawgun, crosshair style etc).