Has anyone tried an optical mouse on a FPS?

FatBurger · Jun 21, 2001

Optical mice work strangely on certain surfaces, so be careful. There's not really any rhyme or reason to it (seemingly), because it looks at things so much closer than we do.

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Guest · Jun 25, 2001

These two ideas were from microsoft, in my words since I can't find the Doc.
There are two main surfaces that an optical will Jump/Skip/lag on.

1. Shiny surfaces that are too much like a mirror. It doesn't give the mouse anything to see.
Examples: Mirrors, SUPER shiny desks, glass...
2. Things with small repeating patterns. Many pictures (all magazines and posters) are made of Tiny dots and circles, super close together. They are so close together that the mouse will get confused and not know if/how much/direction it is moving.

Hope this helps...

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FatBurger · Jun 25, 2001

That's very true, but I've had problems on certain wooden tables, etc.

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rd382 · Jun 28, 2001

Im using a microsoft optical mouse, ive stoped having the problem i had before.... on my old ball mouse the cover for the ball would always fall out and they ball would always come out right when i was about to frag someone

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Guest · Jun 28, 2001

I have a black mousepad under my Intelli Mouse Explorer. It has worked flawlessly for over 6 months (games and all - not a problem). I suggest getting one.

Guest · Jun 29, 2001

I love my MS Intellimouse Explorer, I honestly think that my frags when up a few per game.
A ball mouse will always eventually skip and not be as smooth. My optical has never messed up...

The MS Explorer feels natural too, especially if you have big hands.

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Sihs · Jun 29, 2001

If I may ask, is that a regular mousepad? I heard people are putting cloths under it for better precision.

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CALV · Jul 5, 2001

One thing about the Logitech optical cordless, if you do use it for gaming, TURN OFF the dam acceleration in control panel (enabled by default), it throws the game all over the place- rather like a laggy game but worse,and I was VERY sea sick after about 20 mins, turned off the acceleration and all was fine, but IMO the fastest speed without the acceleration is a bit too slow for me, but I do like a fast mouse in windows.

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Esso · Jul 8, 2001

I've been using the intelli explorer (the old one w/2 buttons on the left) for quite a while now. It has a faster rate when you use it via usb and it is not compliant with the "mouse rate o/c'ers" in the ps2 slot. How ever I have never had a problem with it as far as fps game go, and i don't find it to be worse than the ball. That razor mouse isn't all that and a bag-o-chips either, i used my friend's for a month or so and decided it's not worth the money. IMHO the two extra buttons on the mouse are really handy for fps's. To top it off it has a 5 year warranty, which is good, they seem to break down every two years, i've taken mine back twice, but the second time was just cause the buttons felt to soft (over use hehe).

Guess that's it for now, ball mice don't serve my mad fps skills any better.

oh, ps to the intelli users out there, don't update ur mouse drivers to the 3.x cause it brings down your rate by 20 or so. [i get about 130hz w/my optical]

Guest · Jul 8, 2001

i had a microsoft optical before and it stopped working after a few months. My friend had the same problem with his microsoft mouse. After mine broke i went out and bought a 20 dollar logitec optical and i love it.

dinoX · Jul 21, 2001

i found that the wires in the MS Optical mouse on the inside are cheaply soldierd (sp?) onto the board. Thats what happened to my Optical Mouse. Played FPS games so much that the cord eventually got a wire yanked out and I lost total vertical movement. :x

Before I found out my dad was fixing it for me, I went out and bought a brand new one and at the time it was $29 after rebate. Good deal.

FatBurger · Jul 23, 2001

Soldered

And another reason why I have a wireless optical courtesy of Logitech

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rcf84 · Sep 6, 2001

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FatBurger · Sep 6, 2001

Hey, how's it going?

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AMD_Man · Sep 9, 2001

Forget mice..er..or should I say mouses! I use trackballs! I just love my Microsoft Trackball Optical. It feels just right!

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Yahiko81 · Sep 10, 2001

I don't like any of the new trackballs. I have an old logitech trackball that cost me $90 and it was about 4~5 years ago. That thing is awesome. I love it. Still use it today.

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FatBurger · Sep 10, 2001

Trackball optical? Interesting.
Looks like a great trackball, though.

Spinning a trackball just seems too horribly inaccurate for a FPS.

If someone would come out with a combination mouse/trackball, that'd be awesome. You could control the tank with one, and the turret with another, for instance. The Microsoft one even looks like it's a combination.

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Guest · Sep 12, 2001

Ok. I got the intelli mouse explorer and I think that the 10 buck mouse I had is better for quake 3.
What do you have as a pad?

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FatBurger · Sep 12, 2001

I've been using a couple of Everglide pads recently (got them for a future review), and they're nice. I'll be getting a couple of other kinds for my review as well.

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Yahiko81 · Sep 12, 2001

You'll have to let us know how that goes.

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FatBurger · Sep 12, 2001

Of course

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Guest · Sep 13, 2001

where do you buy these things? Do tell us how it goes? Are they better than the voodoo pads?

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FatBurger · Sep 13, 2001

Voodoo pads? Never heard of them.
<A HREF="http://www.everglide.com" target="_new">Everglide</A>
<A HREF="http://www.ratpadz.com" target="_new">RatPadz</A>
<A HREF="http://www.icemat.com" target="_new">Ice Mat</A>

The three companies that have promised to send one (I have one from Everglide already).

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Toejam31 · Sep 13, 2001

Info: There are now two different Logitech Optical Cordless Mice. One is the Cordless Mouseman Optical (old version), and the other is the Cordless Optical Mouse.

It's going to be hell to tell these two apart with a search engine! I don't know why they didn't get some marketing whiz to at least give the new mouse an acceptable model name to distinguish it from the other. Genius at work, I suspect.

The new mouse is mostly silver-colored, with no thumb button, and a tighter scroll wheel. It has a different shape; no rubber grips on the side ... thinner contours. The pads on the bottom are Teflon. The optical part of the mouse is now a different revision, too ... and apparently has less lag than the older model. I'm not sure about the DPI rating ... yet, but I think it's still 800.

It ships with v9.28 of the MouseWare.

It's also about $30.00 cheaper than the older mouse.

Ran across this yesterday ... thought you might be interested.

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FatBurger · Sep 13, 2001

I'm not interested in buying it, of course. But the information is nice to have.
<A HREF="http://www.logitech.com/cf/products/productoverview.cfm/95" target="_new">Here</A> is the link for anyone else interested.

They probably wanted a mouse that was cheaper, more like the gaming mice, and could be used by a left-handed person more easily.

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Has anyone tried an optical mouse on a FPS?

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