have you ever Plugged In A new mouse or loaded up a new game got into a match
and felt like your character's movement had no real relation to how far you were
actually moving your mouse well then it might be time to look for a new hobby as
I don't think that gaming is for
you just kidding guys it's possible that you were experiencing something called
Mouse acceleration mouse or cursor acceleration to put it simply makes the
travel distance of your cursor on the screen reliant on the velocity of your
physical Mouse movement rather than just the distance that you move your mouse so
making one movement of the same distance at two different speeds will cause two
different relative cursor movements with quick movements causing the cursor to
travel a greater distance Mouse acceleration can be introduced by a
variety of sources including your operating system Mouse driver in-game
setting or even an inherent property of the sensor being used on your mouse
Hardware all right all right so I get to move my cursor all the way to the top
corner to close a window using like a tiny quick micro movement that sounds
pretty sweet and for some people it is if you have very limited space to move
your mouse but don't want to constantly run a ridiculously high sensitivity or
if you don't mind sacrificing some Precision in your mouse movements for a
bit of conveniently quick movement when you really need it then Mouse
acceleration might not be a bad thing but like anything that has a potential
Advantage there are some downsides that you have to take into account
first acceleration makes it more challenging to replicate specific
movements it is more difficult to gauge the speed of your movement than it is to
gauge the distance you move on a Surface so playing games with acceleration may
cause a much steeper learning curve if you're trying to become great at a game
where Mouse accuracy is important like a first-person shooter second to use Mouse
acceleration properly you are going to have to tweak and adjust your settings
endlessly until you find the exact configuration that works for you it is
doable but it's not going to be easy and
third acceleration is something that is in most cases caused by software and
software is not perfect even someone who may consider themselves an expert at
using a mouse with acceleration will encounter some weird interactions and
mouse movements in the long term drivers and other software has improved and will
continue to improve as we move forward but for now keeping this off is
considered generally wise within the Gaming Community now like most things we
discuss on this channel it really does come down to personal preference and in
many cases it's something that you can tune to meet your needs like elderly
people for example might want acceleration so that when they're trying
to to reach you know that button that's kind of hard to align with they can move
slower and the mouse movements are much slower but if you are not that person
and your goal is to say become very good at a game or a genre of games that
requires very fine Mouse control and precision then learning to play without
acceleration might reward you more for your troubles in the long term just be
prepared to do a bit of learning in order to find the right combination of
hardware and software settings to get there there's a link in the description
to a guide on Team Liquid if you want to really dig into the technical aspects of
mouse acceleration and mouse technology
just prepare your brain for a little bit of learning that's about to go on
speaking of learning that's about to go on fra design didn't tell us what we're
doing today so here we are with another fractal
design integration on this channel why do these always end up being punishment
for me so instead of talking about uh
you know the minimalistic Scandinavian design of fractal designs cases power
supplies coolers fans fans are also coolers but I think you get my point uh
Josh over from fractal figured I needed a little bit more Scandinavian clean
design myself and asked for me to wax my
mono brow that you guys are actually pretty fond of complaining about on this
particular Channel more than the other one I guess because the camera is
usually a little closer he also had a special request that Luke uh was to be
the one who stepped in here and did the honors so um fractal design basically
bad people people oh that's uh wow so how do we do
there not much actually came off you still definitely have all the hair there
well that is very unfortunate so it got to hurt and we have to do it again so
thanks to you Josh for being a swell guy
and guys check out fractal design they're Linked In the video description
they sponsor the show they're mostly good people except for Josh and thanks
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