I am no expert. I usually barely maintain a 1:1 KD in games. Up until about 8 months ago, I had been playing shooters at 16,000 DPI. Yes, 16k. I have since lowered that to 1600 DPI. In hindsight, I was always curious about how all the other people in my parties were doing so well. I thought people were trolling about their configurations. People were using DPI settings that just seemed so silly to me. I genuinely believed that most gamers were maxing out the DPI on their mice. However, I discovered that most people who are really good at shooters use DPI settings from 800 to 1600 with low sensitivity.
Is this commonly known information, or have casual gamers just been nerfing their performance by not knowing that low sensitivity is the way to go?
I wasn't always a casual gamer. "No-lifing" games was my favorite thing to do in shooters. I wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but I tried. It never occurred to me that I would do better with different settings.
Now that I know a little better—just a tad—I can see why sniping felt like I was in a fever dream.
Since I started looking into gaming peripherals, I have learned that many factors make a configuration feel right. Most of it is preference; some of it depends on the game's performance. Many games react poorly to really high polling rates. For example, I had a great time at 1600 DPI and 8k polling in COD BO6, but Marvel Rivals stuttered into oblivion with the same settings. It turns out Marvel Rivals just hates anything over 4k polling on my rig, 7900 XTX and 7800X3D.
What are your DPI and in-game settings? Do you change them from game to game? Are there keyboard settings you use that vary from game to game?
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