Gaming mouse recommendations

[aidanjt]

Okay now I see exactly what you mean and when I compared the Microsoft Habu to the IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 I saw what you mean as the frames per second are lower on this. So turning sensitivity up in effect means the mouse has to capture more frames per second therefore this is what matters in mouse precision, am I right in this?

Software sensitivity options usually just modify the movement factor, i.e. taking input from the mouse and multiplying or dividing input values by the modifier value, so it's all very much framerate dependent. If you use the drivers to configure sensitivity it may increase, or decrease DPI, depending on the mouse/driver. However the IME3.0 is awesome without any special drivers, just plug and play/frag. In fact I'd say it's better without the 'proper' drivers. mrsobvious had a good review up there, might not have noticed because he can't post links yet, so I'll reiterate it for him: http://hardware.gotfrag.com/portal/story/34387/

I know I'm starting to sound a bit like a Microsoft sales rep. (ironically I also love this mouse because it also 'just work's in Linux), or a bit of a fanboy, but I've yet to find one to rival it in all my many years of computing.

[Sychie]

Software sensitivity options usually just modify the movement factor, i.e. taking input from the mouse and multiplying or dividing input values by the modifier value, so it's all very much framerate dependent. If you use the drivers to configure sensitivity it may increase, or decrease DPI, depending on the mouse/driver. However the IME3.0 is awesome without any special drivers, just plug and play/frag. In fact I'd say it's better without the 'proper' drivers. mrsobvious had a good review up there, might not have noticed because he can't post links yet, so I'll reiterate it for him: http://hardware.gotfrag.com/portal/story/34387/

I know I'm starting to sound a bit like a Microsoft sales rep. (ironically I also love this mouse because it also 'just work's in Linux), or a bit of a fanboy, but I've yet to find one to rival it in all my many years of computing.

Thanks you made it very clear for me I've had a read of that review and it does show it to be an excellent mouse. Because of this I intend to buy it because of the cheaper price and have money to spare! (which is always nice) plus be able to afford a nice mouse mat to go with it . I play Counter Strike: Source often and from reading the review I can see a lot of gamers who play it use that mouse too. Theres not much I can go wrong with by getting one really.

I have to say thanks once again if I hadn't of posted I would have been lured in with the high DPI mice thinking they were better... in the past I have owned a Razer Copperhead I was pleased with it but again it was only due to the DPI I thought it was better than any other mice at the time, now I know otherwise!

[aidanjt]

I hope you're as pleased with your new purchase as I was. I think you'll find it's very apt in twitcher FPS games.