What's my mouses DPI?

[V da Mighty Taco]

I have a Gear Head wireless 2.4 GHz mouse and I'm trying to figure out it's DPI. I no longer have the box though and Google isn't helping me out here. I do know that the DPI is scalable, but would like to know what DPIs it can be set at. The model # is MPT3100BLU. Can anyone help me out here?

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well their site is a little confusing but if you sift through it all you find it says 800 DPI for that model, standard stuff.

Not sure about those other special features but when they aren't explained anywhere it's usually all chicken shit, you know the flux capacitor and reverse hull polarity type thing.

 

[Crises^]

dpi is relevant in fps games on the pc. The reason is if you have a low dpi mouse it will skip over pixels. now the best possible setting for a mouse in any fps is to set it to max dpi on the mouse then adjust the in game sensitivity to suit your sensitivity needs.

The reason low dpi is bad is if you play at a high resolution and have to shoot someone far away they are only a couple of pixels big. This can be very difficult to shoot with a low dpi as it may skip over those pixels. where as a higher dpi mouse makes it easier to adjust the crosshair.

I hope this helps in explaining it and if I have any facts wrong please correct me because it has been 4 years since i played css competitively and haven't looked up on this in a long time.

 

[Appleshampoo]

Isnt DPI irrelevant? I somehow have it stuck in my head that DPI is just how sensitive you can set the mouse to be, so ridiculously high DPI is useless.

Legitimate question. Im unsure so if anyone can clear this up, that would be great. Google just gives me a bunch of shit about pixels per image, so I dont know how that ties into a mouse.

Pretty much, but also -

When you scroll slowly with a low DPI mouse you'll notice the pointer jumps. Do the same with a high DPI mouse and it'll move very smooth, with no pointer jumps.

I never noticed, until my gaming mouse recently broke and I had to buy a cheap £7.99 mouse until I can replace it. Needless to say, I can really really notice the difference. It's horrible

 

[Wolfram23]

Isnt DPI irrelevant? I somehow have it stuck in my head that DPI is just how sensitive you can set the mouse to be, so ridiculously high DPI is useless.

Legitimate question. Im unsure so if anyone can clear this up, that would be great. Google just gives me a bunch of shit about pixels per image, so I dont know how that ties into a mouse.

Honestly, it is pretty useless. I have mine set at 1800 dpi with very very low sensitivity so it acts normally, and it's very smooth. But in some games where the sensitivity is wack, I can lower it on the fly so I often game at 800 or even 600 dpi and it doesn't really seem to make a difference. Maybe a little less smooth.

 

[Keava]

I have a Gear Head wireless 2.4 GHz mouse and I'm trying to figure out it's DPI. I no longer have the box though and Google isn't helping me out here. I do know that the DPI is scalable, but would like to know what DPIs it can be set at. The model # is MPT3100BLU. Can anyone help me out here?

According to websites it has scalable DPI, like mouse decent gaming mouses. The mouse config utility should let You check at what setting You are running.
Personaly, for non-FPS games i use 1800-2000 DPI, anything lower feels sluggish.