Mouse Settings for Counter-Strike

No doubt mouse is the most important peropheral when you are playing a First Person shhoter.So here I will be discussing about the mouse related settings for counter-strike.

First of all in-game settings :
Click on 'Options' link at your counter-strike welcome screen and select 'mouse' tab. You will find a window similar to this photograph. Here you can select your mouse settings.

• Reverse Mouse : As clear from explanation ,ticking this option will invert your mouse's up-down axis. Up will become down and down will become up.
• Mouse Look : If you are a normal player,and use your mouse to look around in the map then you have to keep this on.
• Mouse Filter : Very lucrative option, but dont listen to what it says. It may smoothen mouse movement..but it brings with it bigger disadvantages. Enabling it will only distort your aim, moving your crosshair slightly away from where you want it. When it is on, Counter-Strike will calculate all your mouse movements over the last two frames to find an average and attempt to give you a smoother feel. This means using older data to move your mouse instead of the most up to date information. So in simple words it will distirt your aim.Theoretically, with mouse filter off, you could also receive a slight FPS boost on lower end systems.
• Joystick : Enable this if you prefer to use a joystick over a mouse. But if not ,then disabling Joystick because it may decrease load time of counter-strike slightly, which will be more noticeable on a slower system. This is because your game does not attempt to detect and initialize a joystick at startup.
• Auto-aim : Another lucrative feature.But of no use because most of the servers kep the auto aim off. So keep it off.
• Mouse Sensitivity : This option allows you to change your in-game sensitivity, which sets how fast your crosshair moves. your choice is totally dependant on your current mouse and surface selection.I personally recommend lower sensitivities as it may help in gaining more control on your mouse,and hence improve your aim.

Now some console commands related to mouse.

• m_filter (0/1)– This is the console equivalent of the Mouse Filter command.
  0 = Off, 1 = On. Recommended: 0 (Off)
• m_forward X – Adjusts the sensitivity of forward and backwards mouse movement. I Recommend to leave it to its default.
• m_pitch X – Adjusts the sensitivity of up and down mouse movements.I Recommend to leave it to its default.
• m_side X – Adjusts the sensitivity of sideways mouse movement.I Recommend to leave it to its default.
• m_yaw X – Adjusts the sensitivity of turning left and right with the mouse. I Recommend to leave it to its default.
• sensitivity X – The console equivalent of “Mouse sensitivity.” This is the most effective method for changing sensitivity as not only can you include decimal values, morover the settings are chabged at instant.
• zoom_sensitivity_ratio X – Adjusts the sensitivity of your crosshair upon zooming,it is in ratio of normal sensitivity. Let us say you have an in-game sensitivity of 4, and a zoom_sensitivity_ratio of 0.5. With this ratio your mouse speed will be cut in half (0.5), changing it to a sensitivity of 2 while zooming.

Other Settings.

DPI : Mouse DPI stands for Dots Per Inch. Most optical mice have a resolution of 400-800 DPI. In translation that means that the cursor on a standard optical moves 400-800 pixels across the screen for every inch the mouse is moved on the display. Gaming Mouse can perform as high as 1,600 DPI. The higher the DPI, the more accurate, precise, and sensitive your mouse will be. By downloading the latest drivers, and then installing the proper software, you can likely raise the DPI for your mouse higher than it is boxed at.

Mouse Frequency : It is the amount of data your optical mouse device sends to your system in the matter of one second. Higher the frequency better the accuracy . There are two major factors that control mouse frequency. One is, of course, the mouse you have; the second is the port you use. if you are using your mouse in the USB port, you can get frequencies upto 125Hz. Whereas PS/2 port mouse can barely cross the 100 barrier,and can even reach the lower limit 40 Hz. There are a few utilities you can use to increase your PS/2 mouse performance. The best way would be to purchase a PS/2 to USB adapter a cheap but less effective measure could be downloading a third party PS/2 rate adjuster.

Hope these will help you in getting a better gaming experience.For NOFORCE Settings read the post on noforce settings.