New mouse feet new sens

[cincinnatus]

I just changed the mouse feet on g403, is there any reason this would result in a different sens? With the old mouse feet, a swipe from one end of mousepad to other always landed at the same point in game. Now doing the same swipe moves the crosshair significantly less, to get to the same point I have to change the sens from 1.55 to ~1.64 at 800 dpi. Tried re-tuning and it didn't do anything.

I checked with mouse sensitivity exporter and all the points on that line up exactly as before, but when I physically move the mouse it's different. 

I also tried to clean the dust off my sensor lightly with an alcohol swab, could I have damaged the sensor doing this?

[Drimzi]

You probably changed the sensor height.

[cincinnatus]

so should i just increase sens to compensate?

[Drimzi]

6 minutes ago, cincinnatus said:

so should i just increase sens to compensate?

I would make sure the feet are the same height as before. The sensor is probably not detecting all movements.

[iBerggman]

Most aftermarket mousefeet seem to increase the thickness a little from the original indeed. Hyperglide especially like to do this (Their G403 feet will be 0.8mm instead of the stock 0.5/0.6?) because of the rounded edges on their feet and while it does help with making sure nothing catches on the mouse pad it also noticeably changes the dpi. However, I don't really think it should cause any problems as long as you have enough lift of distance to get the same tracking quality with the extra height.

If you really wanted to compensate for it you could probably find out the difference in thickness and then using the difference in thickness calculate the new dpi value and use that in the calculator. I know someone on ocn calculated how much difference a 0.1mm change in sensor height makes to the actual dpi but I can't remember how much it was.

Personally, I don't really care enough to calculate anything so I would just try to get used to the new sensitivity or change it until it feels the same. That's what I did when I put Intellimouse hyperglides (0.85mm) on my G403 anyway and I haven't had a problem since. You could use the Surface Tuning in LGS to optimize the lift of distance but since the G403 already has plenty I don't think you even have to do that, afaik it only reduces the distance anyway. The best option is of course to use the same thickness feet as stock like Drimzi suggested.

Edited July 7, 2018 by iBerggman

[cincinnatus]

Thanks for the replies, these mouse feet were supposed to be the same original thickness - .66mm, so it seems like they should be fine. The sens never changed on the original mouse feet from it being brand new to scraping against the mousepad. But these made quite a drastic change. 

If it's just a change in dpi I guess that's fine I can just compensate, the thing about sensor not detecting all movements worries me though.

[Drimzi]

13 minutes ago, cincinnatus said:

If it's just a change in dpi I guess that's fine I can just compensate, the thing about sensor not detecting all movements worries me though.

Do the surface tuning just in case.

[DPI Wizard]

1 hour ago, cincinnatus said:

If it's just a change in dpi I guess that's fine I can just compensate, the thing about sensor not detecting all movements worries me though.

What surface tuning setting are you using? The preset hard and soft settings are extremely sensitive to height. Try the factory setting if you're not already using it.

[cincinnatus]

1 hour ago, DPI Wizard said:

What surface tuning setting are you using? The preset hard and soft settings are extremely sensitive to height. Try the factory setting if you're not already using it.

I had it on factory default, i tried custom surface tuning and it didn't fix the issue. I'm using QCK heavy.