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have you ever Plugged In A new mouse or loaded up a new game got into a match

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and felt like your character's movement had no real relation to how far you were

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actually moving your mouse well then it might be time to look for a new hobby as

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I don't think that gaming is for

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you just kidding guys it's possible that you were experiencing something called

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Mouse acceleration mouse or cursor acceleration to put it simply makes the

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travel distance of your cursor on the screen reliant on the velocity of your

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physical Mouse movement rather than just the distance that you move your mouse so

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making one movement of the same distance at two different speeds will cause two

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different relative cursor movements with quick movements causing the cursor to

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travel a greater distance Mouse acceleration can be introduced by a

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variety of sources including your operating system Mouse driver in-game

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setting or even an inherent property of the sensor being used on your mouse

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Hardware all right all right so I get to move my cursor all the way to the top

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corner to close a window using like a tiny quick micro movement that sounds

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pretty sweet and for some people it is if you have very limited space to move

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your mouse but don't want to constantly run a ridiculously high sensitivity or

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if you don't mind sacrificing some Precision in your mouse movements for a

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bit of conveniently quick movement when you really need it then Mouse

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acceleration might not be a bad thing but like anything that has a potential

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Advantage there are some downsides that you have to take into account

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first acceleration makes it more challenging to replicate specific

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movements it is more difficult to gauge the speed of your movement than it is to

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gauge the distance you move on a Surface so playing games with acceleration may

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cause a much steeper learning curve if you're trying to become great at a game

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where Mouse accuracy is important like a first-person shooter second to use Mouse

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acceleration properly you are going to have to tweak and adjust your settings

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endlessly until you find the exact configuration that works for you it is

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doable but it's not going to be easy and

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third acceleration is something that is in most cases caused by software and

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software is not perfect even someone who may consider themselves an expert at

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using a mouse with acceleration will encounter some weird interactions and

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mouse movements in the long term drivers and other software has improved and will

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continue to improve as we move forward but for now keeping this off is

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considered generally wise within the Gaming Community now like most things we

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discuss on this channel it really does come down to personal preference and in

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many cases it's something that you can tune to meet your needs like elderly

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people for example might want acceleration so that when they're trying

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to to reach you know that button that's kind of hard to align with they can move

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slower and the mouse movements are much slower but if you are not that person

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and your goal is to say become very good at a game or a genre of games that

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requires very fine Mouse control and precision then learning to play without

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acceleration might reward you more for your troubles in the long term just be

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prepared to do a bit of learning in order to find the right combination of

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hardware and software settings to get there there's a link in the description

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to a guide on Team Liquid if you want to really dig into the technical aspects of

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mouse acceleration and mouse technology

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just prepare your brain for a little bit of learning that's about to go on

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speaking of learning that's about to go on fra design didn't tell us what we're

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doing today so here we are with another fractal

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design integration on this channel why do these always end up being punishment

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for me so instead of talking about uh

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you know the minimalistic Scandinavian design of fractal designs cases power

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supplies coolers fans fans are also coolers but I think you get my point uh

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Josh over from fractal figured I needed a little bit more Scandinavian clean

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design myself and asked for me to wax my

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mono brow that you guys are actually pretty fond of complaining about on this

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particular Channel more than the other one I guess because the camera is

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usually a little closer he also had a special request that Luke uh was to be

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the one who stepped in here and did the honors so um fractal design basically

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bad people people oh that's uh wow so how do we do

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there not much actually came off you still definitely have all the hair there

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well that is very unfortunate so it got to hurt and we have to do it again so

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thanks to you Josh for being a swell guy

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and guys check out fractal design they're Linked In the video description

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they sponsor the show they're mostly good people except for Josh and thanks

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for watching guys like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it and we will see you again next time oh

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