Has anyone tried an optical mouse on a FPS?

I was using a ball mouse for playing UT, I changed to an optical mouse and I thought it performed much better. It is easier to aim and more accurate and doesn't slip.

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Thanks.
Which brand have you got? Microsoft, Logitech or A4?

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I got a Razor Boomslang 2000, its just as good as an optical. i did it because of the design of the mouse, not so much that its a ball.. its also a $100 mouse (which Best Buy has for $69)

Only problem is that Razor's parent company folded and sold to Logitech i think

Thanks. In that case I will get me the microsoft one. Although I heard that top gamers usually prefer Logitech mice. I don't know why.


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I got the logitec optical/cordless too, got it last week, had no probs at all, MUCH better than my old ball one, I like how if Im at my pc maybe showing someone how to do something, I can just pass the mouse over to them, no need for mousemat, no cables etc, and as mentioned, has a good range.


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i have logitech optical mouse. I am an avid gamer, and i always use logitech mice. and i can kill any of you at 1rst person shooter too I actually so far prefer it to my old ball mouse, although, in a way, the heaver motion on the ball mouse is actaully kinda easier because it stops easier, this one i find myself going there and back in half the time, or over shooting alot. But its so smooth an im still gettin used to it. so far i liek doesnt get dirty either

anyways just some thoughts.. hope this helps...

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they dont judge opticals in resolution i dont think. i know that the microsoft one takes 1500 pictures per second to judge your movement. i luv my intellimouse explorer. best mouse i have ever used (and i have had it for a year, havent had to clean it yet and it works like the day i got it

eh, i'll procrastinate later...

In that case I totally made up my mind. MS intelli mouse explorer it is.
I just posted this thread because a guy told me that optical get sloppy with first person shooters.
Now I know who was the sloppy in games.

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The Microsoft Optical Mice have dropped to around 29.95 at Office Max (I just bought 2 of them.) They have worked great so far with StarCraft and Counter Strike.

Thank you for your time,

Iceburn

No, the $30 is for the normal one. The CD has the drivers, IntelliPoint software, and probably something useless to go along with it. Both of those you can download from Microsoft's site for free, so don't worry about the CD. Windows will autodetect stuff on a USB port, just like PS/2 or serial. Actually, better than PS/2 or serial. And, in my opinion, you'll get a lot less grief if you use the USB port, not a USB to PS/2 adapter.

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Yeah, you're right about that. Why I said USB would work better is because some of the buttons on certain mice don't work right unless it's plugged into USB.

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The real deal on the optical mouse and boomslag mouse.

Ok I have owned both. I have first bought the boomslag mouse cause I was not happy with the logtic mouse man plus. After getting the boomslag mouse could not believe how much easier getting frags were. I used that mouse for a few months and notice that the ball inside would get dirty and no matter how you clean it would always clog it inside. The movement was never the same. I could adjust to the dirt but if I wanted to be a grate player and not just a good player I needed everything in tune.

With the optical mouse there is no cleaning needed to the mouse. The movement of the curser is always the same. Also some people complain that the curser will jump but that is because you should run in it on a hard surface and not the mouse pad. The reason being is the mouse pad can absorb the light of the beam.

I’d never go back to a ball mouse ever.
Oh ya I now own the logtic optical.

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

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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.

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

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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]

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.

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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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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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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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Voodoo pads? Never heard of them.
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The three companies that have promised to send one (I have one from Everglide already).

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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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