mouse and display settings

I had the feeling a lot of new players are around lately and wondering what they can do with mouse settings. I like to answer some unasked questions here, or at least, give my point of view on this topic. Maybe some players will add some info's?


After applying the accelfix.exe and having windows accel "disabled", what happenend?

well, if you had your register settings like:

mousespeed "0"
mousetresshold1 "0"
mousetresshold2 "0"

then it is normal if you don't feel any changes. It is practically the same result.

Some players play ET with changed register values, like this for example:


mousespeed "2"
mousetresshold1 "2"
mousetresshold2 "5"


That will be useless when you use the accelfix.exe. You can set any value without having the sensitivity changed. But when you are not using the accelfix.exe, values like these will be used as pointer precision setting; raising the sensitivity. Check it, if you change the register values to 2,2,5 (very high precision) and do a reboot, the box "pointer precision" will be checked at mouse properties! The default pointer precision setting (what you get for checking the box, without manually setting the values) is 1,6,10 (not so very high precision) !!!if you click on "ok" in the mouse properties tab, you will change the setting to 1,6,10!!! so click the red cross if you just wanna check without changing the values in the register, or, even better, keep the box unchecked (argueable, I know).

If you have a razer mouse and use the mouseware, you can check the register settings after each change at the windows precision setting in the mouseware.

perfo (<3 cheers for the feedback long time ago, way before your ban) claims to use the 2,2,5 setting, but I'm pretty sure most players use the 0,0,0 setting or the accelfix.exe (same result) Then again, if he uses the accelfix.exe the 2,2,5 settings won't do anything. Placebo!!

USBRATE/mouse Hz: 500 Hz is good! Even at very spastic mouse movement your pointer position will be up to date as it should be.

DPI: If you have negative accel, and you don't like it, go for 400 or max 800 DPI.
If you like the fact that your pointer is faster at slow mouse movement, and slower at fast mouse movement, keep your 2000 or w/e DPI.

FPS: keep it around your displayrefresh. Don't play on pubs where fps affects your jumping, like on BiO, or make sure you have com_maxfps 125 fps there. (check it out if you are still able to jump on a high box.)

Syncing displayrefresh (screen Hz) and fps is the best for smooth play.

Settings recommended imo:

75 Hz: 76 fps
85 Hz: 86 fps
100 Hz: 100 fps
120 Hz: 125 fps

Only applies for crt monitor's. TFT/LCD screen's refreshrate is not important to sync with fps.
Cheers to overdrive for sharing these kinds of information when I was noob at this shit.
old screenshot, from time I was active in clan (noob though) xD