Help: Mouse Y and X sens are not even

[Soulfire1992]

Hello, my mouse y and x sensitivity are not even, furthermore x seems to be double as fast as y. This is a permanent thing for me, regardless of being on desktop or in any game. I tried different mice, scaling options, gpu driver related settings and 3rd party software to match the sensitivities...... so i'm out of ideas and it's driving me nuts since I cannot figure out what causes it.

System:

Win11 64
RTX 2070S
I7 9700K
ASUS Prime Z-390P
Tried Logitech G502Hero / 502X, Corsair Nightsword RGB and a no name mouse.

I'd be unbelieveably thankful for any advice you might have, thank you.

[TheNoobPolice]

The y would normally "feel" slower than x because we have less range of motion in our fingers up and down that our wrist left to right. This is why some people prefer to increase the y sensitivity.

Besides that (and assuming you have factually measured a difference, because "seems to be faster" is not really convincing taking into account the above), if you know you did not adjust the axial DPI in your mouse software(s), the only thing that could occur is if there was a mouse filter installed that is performing some math on the input or causing some error in processing the (x, y) input packet.

If you go to this registry key

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4d36e96f-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}

You can see any LowerFilters or UpperFilter keys for the mouse device class in the right hand pane. There is only usually the default "mouclass" under UpperFilters in a default windows install. If there are any LowerFilters especially, and you don't explicitly know you want them / installed them, then that would be something you should probably address as to why they are there.

[Soulfire1992]

15 hours ago, TheNoobPolice said:

The y would normally "feel" slower than x because we have less range of motion in our fingers up and down that our wrist left to right. This is why some people prefer to increase the y sensitivity.

Besides that (and assuming you have factually measured a difference, because "seems to be faster" is not really convincing taking into account the above), if you know you did not adjust the axial DPI in your mouse software(s), the only thing that could occur is if there was a mouse filter installed that is performing some math on the input or causing some error in processing the (x, y) input packet.

If you go to this registry key

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4d36e96f-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}

You can see any LowerFilters or UpperFilter keys for the mouse device class in the right hand pane. There is only usually the default "mouclass" under UpperFilters in a default windows install. If there are any LowerFilters especially, and you don't explicitly know you want them / installed them, then that would be something you should probably address as to why they are there.

Hey, thanks for your reply. I checked the registry key but didn't spot anything unusual. Is there a way to increase the Y sens within the registry?

"The y would normally "feel" slower than x because we have less range of motion in our fingers up and down that our wrist left to right. This is why some people prefer to increase the y sensitivity."

Whenever I see people playing Overwatch ( regardless of their eDPI, even low values like 3000 - 6000 ) they don't have a problem hitting things below/above them or aiming up/down in general - but when I tried some lower eDPI I was barely able to do it. Looking left/right is fine but down/up feels horribly slow and makes me not want to engage any vertical fights at all.
 

I did a clean install of Win11 yesterday and played Overwatch without any mouse related stuff installed with no success. So it is not a driver or software issue I guess.

[DPI Wizard]

What distance do you have to move you mouse to move the cursor from left to right and from top to bottom in Windows with 400 DPI? Also what resolution do you use in Windows?

[Soulfire1992]

35 minutes ago, DPI Wizard said:

What distance do you have to move you mouse to move the cursor from left to right and from top to bottom in Windows with 400 DPI? Also what resolution do you use in Windows?

1920 x 1080. With 400DPI I need about 6,5cm vertical and 11,5cm horizontal.

[DPI Wizard]

2 minutes ago, Soulfire1992 said:

1920 x 1080. With 400DPI I need about 6,5cm vertical and 11,5cm horizontal.

This is pretty much spot on, 6.858 cm for vertical and 12.192 cm for horizontal is what it should be.

But considering that you measure by hand and that the mouse likely isn't exactly 400 DPI I don't see an issue here?

[comikazie]

if you want a simple solution download raw accel and change the y sens