Check your gaming mouse polling rate with mouserate.exe
I'm not a big PC gamer but I do enjoy the odd hour online playing ET (Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory). Recently I've been disappointed with my accuracy and aiming, I just seem to always miss when in the middle of a frantic firefight.
I had read on an ET forum that a good way to improve your aim was to download and consume 'Aiming by RaZiel'. After reading some of the documentation and watching a couple of the movies in this pack I wanted to try and 'tweak' my mouse configuration.
One tip was to increase the mouse polling rate within Windows so that it would be read faster and therefore give a more accurate reading on the mouse's position. One way that you can check your mouse polling rate is with the rather handy 'mouserate' by Oliver Andreas Tscherwitschke.
It's a tiny download that contains a simple executable file that pops up a window which gives you an area in which to move your mouse around, and a list of the polled rate on the right-hand side (along with an overall average).
When I first ran this program with my Microsoft optical Intellimouse plugged into the PS/2 port (via the green USB adapter) I got an average reading of just less than 100Hz. I then tried plugging the mouse directly into a free USB port and got pretty much the same readings so at least I know that the talk of PS/2 mice giving a steadier polling rate must only apply to 'true' PS/2 mice, not USB mice with PS/2 adapters.
Try it out and see what polling rate you get, I would be interested to hear what you have to say.
P.S. Have you noticed in the picture above that my polling rate is a fair bit higher than the 100Hz that I've talked about? More in a future post... ;-)
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7 Comments:
I have just purchased the Razer Copperhead, and I get polling rates of well over 1000 Hz
Razer Diamondback, 125 hz... (how is that right...)
Haha, i get anywhere between 86 and 1974 with a Logitech G5 on USB port. Average is 500 Hz. That's ample for a mouse.
USB Mouserate Switcher 1.1 will def increate ur mouse's polling up to 1000hz+, my Microsoft intellimouse 1.1 can pull up to 3300hz+
125 is standard for USB
my G5 does 500 Hz standard with Logitech Setpoint drivers
It also has an option for 1000 Hz but then the rate isnt stable enough
A stable rate is what you need for perfect aiming not a high one.
hmmm 900 to 1100, brings it up to 1000~1010 average, which is perfect for a gaming :-)
@ USB port, MS HABU.
I use standard PS/2 HP mouse at my office and it gives me 109 Hz in average.
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