16 Dec 14, 12:29AM
(This post was last modified: 16 Dec 14, 12:39AM by Vanquish.
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(15 Dec 14, 11:21PM)PhaNtom Wrote: Cue Vanquish.
(15 Dec 14, 11:30PM)Marti Wrote: All other technical stuff i will leave for vanquish
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Okay, so here goes. First off, congratulations on purchasing a G100s, without a doubt the best mouse on the market for price/performance ratio today (unless you're gonna get one of takasta's steelseries/wmo mods or steal one).
I could blag on for ages about the specs of this mouse and why they're important to you, but I'll just start off with what could be the simplest answer to all your questions:
Low DPI = Lower sensitivity
High DPI = Higher sensitivity
The Logitech G100s features the Avago AM010-N1301T sensor, which runs from 250 to 2500 dpi. I don't know what the dpi change button on the G100s does because I kept hitting it by accident so I've disabled it, but I guess it's safe to assume that the dpi intervals are something like 250, 1250, 2500. The one real flaw on the G100s is that the sensor is known to have a pretty high level of jitter (perhaps what you mean by the mouse feeling slippery?) when you run it at over 1000 dpi.
There's probably gonna be some kind of firmware update that fixes this in the future, but for now we won't know.
Typically for FPS games, you don't want excessively high DPI values (I remember I thought having 11400 on my steelseries sensei was a good idea, lol) or excessively low DPI values (probably around 400 as a minimum). The highest I've ever used was 2300, on my Zowie EC1 (awful mouse btw), and I even felt like the EC1 ran better on the lower dpi step of 1150. I'm currently using 800 dpi with my G400s and it feels absolutely perfect. Which dpi you should use depends mostly on the sensor that's present on the mouse you're using, and you can just change your sensitivity ingame accordingly to get the same feeling (formula is: old dpi * old sens / new dpi). In the case of your sensor, I'd recommend (a lot of professional quake live + CSGO players do the same btw) running it on exactly 1000 dpi.
That aside, your mouse has no inbuilt prediction or acceleration, the polling rate is stable at 1000hz and the button response time (click latency) is about 0.2ms, so don't let the jitter thing put you off. I've tried over 30 mice and I own about 12, and the G100s is the third best I've tried out of all of them (only thing that put me off was the fact that it's kinda small for my hands).
Best of luck with it!