Mouse/Mouse Pad Sensitivity Problem

Xeno23

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Dec 19, 2013
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So I have a Steelseries Qck mouse pad/a mediocre Logitech mouse that I grabbed from Best Buy about a year ago and I have just recently gotten into CS:GO. The other day I found a good sensitivity in-game (1.3) and measured out my cm/360 as most people do (One full 360 from one side of the mouse pad to the other). My problem is.. every couple days or so that go by after cleaning my mouse pad, my cm/360 completely changes and I'm forced to bump my in-game sensitivity up by a whole .5 or so to keep the same 360 speed.. Basically, I'm forced to keep re-checking and bumping my sensitivity up due to my mouse pad re-dirtying as each day goes by. (1.35, 1.4, 1.45 etc.) Every time I re-clean my mouse pad, my cm/360 sensitivity comes out perfectly at 1.3 again.. As I obviously am not going to wash my mouse pad every morning before I play games, how do I go about fixing this problem? Is it my crappy mouse that's causing this to happen due to it's low quality laser? Or should I pick up a different mouse pad, maybe one that isn't cloth? I'm extremely confused as to how a couple days of using my mouse pad can affect my sensitivity so badly and it's incredibly hard to build muscle memory when my sensitivity is constantly fluctuating.. Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.
 
under windows mouse settings, pointer, is "enhance pointer precision" enabled? if yes... it will vary how fast the mouse moves or how far based on the speed you move it. meaning if you are tired one day and move it slow or are in a hurry another day and move it fast they will appear to act completely different.

now if you have that "off" and you still have this problem... i would find that strange.

i've used cloth mousepads for years both dirty and clean and have used many logitech mice along with a plethora of other mice and never had the issue you describe.

another thing to check.... the dpi sensitivity is not changing correct? (theres no button or some sort of auto-dpi scaling technology ((which i'm not sure even exists?)) correct?)

cloth, plastic, not using a pad, etc shouldnt cause that problem.