Angelina Jolie
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Most of the people buy a mouse by seeing the look, the RGB light and the price, and the DPI number on the box is forgotten after only a few days. And with the cheap local mouse it is not even written anywhere on the box. So when a gamer wants to set the sensitivity properly or a designer wants smooth cursor, they start searching how to find out the DPI of the mouse they are already using.
Now if we talk about DPI in simple way, it is the number of pixels your cursor moves on the screen when the mouse is moved one inch on the table. Like if a mouse is on 800 DPI then one inch hand movement will take the cursor around 800 pixels.
To check this you dont need to install the company software or any driver also. A mouse dpi checker that opens in the browser does the job, and it works with wired and wireless both types of mice.
But before doing the test, check one setting in Windows otherwise the result will be wrong. Open mouse settings, keep pointer speed in the middle and switch off Enhance pointer precision. When this option is on, Windows adds its own acceleration and the tool will not get the real movement.
Now for the testing part, mouse DPI checker is the website which I will recommend, because this site is made for checking DPI only and nothing extra is there to confuse. On the page you have to put the distance first, one inch or some centimeters, whatever is easy for you. Then keep a scale on the table, press the left click and drag the mouse straight until that distance and leave it. The DPI comes on the screen right after that. There is no login and no payment for using it.
One test is not enough though. Hand moves little bit up or down while dragging, and the line is never fully straight, so the reading changes by several points every time. Better to do it three or four times and take the average. Suppose the readings are 790, 812 and 801, then your mouse is running on 800 DPI only.
Many gaming mice have a DPI button on top. In that case press the button and test each level separately on the mouse dpi checker, and write all the numbers in notepad. Later when you set sensitivity in Valorant or CS2, or shift to a new mouse, these numbers help a lot.
Now if we talk about DPI in simple way, it is the number of pixels your cursor moves on the screen when the mouse is moved one inch on the table. Like if a mouse is on 800 DPI then one inch hand movement will take the cursor around 800 pixels.
To check this you dont need to install the company software or any driver also. A mouse dpi checker that opens in the browser does the job, and it works with wired and wireless both types of mice.
But before doing the test, check one setting in Windows otherwise the result will be wrong. Open mouse settings, keep pointer speed in the middle and switch off Enhance pointer precision. When this option is on, Windows adds its own acceleration and the tool will not get the real movement.
Now for the testing part, mouse DPI checker is the website which I will recommend, because this site is made for checking DPI only and nothing extra is there to confuse. On the page you have to put the distance first, one inch or some centimeters, whatever is easy for you. Then keep a scale on the table, press the left click and drag the mouse straight until that distance and leave it. The DPI comes on the screen right after that. There is no login and no payment for using it.
One test is not enough though. Hand moves little bit up or down while dragging, and the line is never fully straight, so the reading changes by several points every time. Better to do it three or four times and take the average. Suppose the readings are 790, 812 and 801, then your mouse is running on 800 DPI only.
Many gaming mice have a DPI button on top. In that case press the button and test each level separately on the mouse dpi checker, and write all the numbers in notepad. Later when you set sensitivity in Valorant or CS2, or shift to a new mouse, these numbers help a lot.