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Thu 09/06/05 at 17:38
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"Touched!"
Posts: 4,910
Sick of this stupid MS optical mouse..crap for gaming and the thing is crap and just doesn't seem to point well at all, anyone recommend me a gaming mouse that won't jump around and that is a decent optical mouse? Cheers!
Thu 09/06/05 at 23:10
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"bot"
Posts: 3,491
Clazon wrote:
> That makes no sense at all.
>
> Surely the mouses movement is just electrical impulses sent to the
> computer which the computer interprets. How can a movement become
> jerky and miss frames?

The signal is digital, so it's not 100% continuous. The faster its refresh rate is, the smoother its movement will be.
Thu 09/06/05 at 23:32
Regular
"The Red Shift"
Posts: 6,807
Ah.
Fri 10/06/05 at 12:45
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"The mighty GE90-115"
Posts: 5,344
Memorandum! wrote:
> Clazon wrote:
> That makes no sense at all.
>
> Surely the mouses movement is just electrical impulses sent to the
> computer which the computer interprets. How can a movement become
> jerky and miss frames?
>
> The signal is digital, so it's not 100% continuous. The faster its
> refresh rate is, the smoother its movement will be.

You can even overclock your mouse port, so that the refresh rate is 200Hz instead of 125Hz...
Fri 10/06/05 at 17:35
Regular
"Touched!"
Posts: 4,910
Cheers guys. I think the Razor mouse looks like being my best bet.

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