What is Over 10000 dpi used for?

[rfalla3]

I tried looking it up and im getting mixed information. Such as people saying its marketing gimmick and its bad to play with high dpi because of "noise" in the tracking. And others saying it makes your mouse more precise and that you have to lower sensitivity all the way.

So there is people saying it doesn't make your more precise, and those who say it does.

So which one is it? I play games at 800 Dpi, and thats what I'm used to. But I also don't want to forgo the ability to be more precise.

 

[doolittle]

For gaming, yes it's pretty much marketing speak - I also don't go over 1k DPI on a 1080 monitor. Even when you hit 2k and 4k in gaming you probably will not use more than 2000 or 3000dpi respectively in gaming / normal desktop use even after you adjust your mouse settings to use it, the higher settings are way overkill.

In pro applications like CAD and graphics design, it's a whole other story - the high DPIs give more precision especially with really high resolutions like 4k.

 

[cryoburner]

Those high values are probably unnecessary, and you would need to adjust the sensitivity way down in a game's settings to make something like 10,000 dpi useable. Plus that might not even be the native resolution of the sensor, since many mice will interpolate from a somewhat lower resolution just to get those larger numbers.

If you find you need to turn up sensitivity in a game's settings in order to turn quick enough, then increasing the mouse's dpi setting would generally be better.

And at higher resolutions, a low dpi might result in your mouse cursor (or targeting reticule) jumping more than one pixel at a time, or the game needing to perform mouse smoothing to avoid such jumps and ensure smooth movement, at a loss of accuracy. By using a somewhat higher dpi, it's possible to get smoother movement at higher speeds without resorting to mouse smoothing.

Your ideal dpi setting might depend on your preferences and your mouse's capabilities, along with the games you play and the resolution you play them at. I used to use 800 dpi, but switched to 1600 a couple years or so back.