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Performance/Testing The games we will use to test will be Counter-Strike:
Source and Half Life 2. The main reason for choosing these
games are the variety of weapons with their very different
feels and characteristics. We will also be testing under
the 3 most common scenarios for mouse users: Normal desktop,
cheap average mousepad, and high end Icemat 2nd Edition
mousepad.
Test System:
Scenario 1 – The Desktop: Everything was accurate but smoothness was an issue. I think it had more to do with the fact my desk is a bit uneven in its finish. The mouse didn’t have any reading errors but since the desk wasn’t smooth acceleration was off and caused inaccurate aiming that wasn’t the mouse’s fault. This became a persistent problem with sniping as the DPI was lowered for slower smoother aiming but I kept missing the mark. Scenario 2 – The Cheap Mousepad: The mousepad was smooth and even but a bit resistant. I could move faster on the desktop while the mousepad causes slight friction with the cloth and therefore slows down the mouse. After getting used to the slow acceleration I was able to start mowing down people left and right with the normal rifles, sniping was a bit different though. Since the acceleration was slower the lower DPI made things too slow and the higher DPI were still too fast so I had to go and make a custom DPI to switch to, after that everything went well. Scenario 3 – Icemat 2nd Edition: I had to special order this mousepad for the review to get the most out of this mouse. I won’t say the mousepad drastically improved everything, but it was problem free. The acceleration, accuracy, smoothness handled perfectly well. I didn’t have any DPI problems with the Icemat, although I’m sure if I spent some time I could make some perfect DPI customizations for it.
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