There seem to be a lot of "Gaming" mousepads on the market - some very expensive. Do these make any real impact with today's optical mice over an old mousepad or desk?
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It depends on the mouse. One of my favorite mice is a Laser mouse made by Razer, but the mouse really sucks unless you've got a good mousing surface to go with it. I personally use good mousing surfaces for all of my computers (even when I'm just at work programming, without a gaming mouse), because I like the extra precision. |
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Professional gamers will bring their own mice as well as mice pads to events. The reality is no surface is frictionless, nor does any surface have consistent friction throughout it. As a result there are parts of the surface in question which the mouse will move on at different speeds. A good mouse pad will have even friction throughout it. How much friction you want on your mouse pad is usually a matter of personal preference (like tuning your mouse response settings). I usually advocate low friction mouse pads for laser mice, but I know a number of competitive gamers who prefer high friction mouse pads for higher precision (as the mass of a mouse is usually so small that the force difference between high acceleration and low acceleration is small). I have personally used a gaming mouse pad since I started competing at Counter Strike. I quite enjoy it, but I recommend you try before you buy. Go to a store that has games on computers and play them for 10 minute stretches. Its also worth noting that a high quality mousepad may require a different cleaning regimen than you are use to. Make sure you find this out first. |
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Some mousepads offer support besides the actual pad for the mouse, such as a wrist support. These can help whether or not your mouse is optical, if it's comfortable for you, a fact which has actually helped a number of gamers I've known. |
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In my opinion, the biggest advantage of a gaming mousepad is size. I use to run my mouse off the edge of the pad all the time until I got the giant mousepad by Razor. I also think the small pads with different "surfaces" are mostly just hype. |
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I prefer my desk as mousepad, i am a gamer, never using "turn-around" shortcuts or kinda tha, i do ALL the view just by my mouse so it ofen happens that i reach the end of my mousepad. Advantage of desk: narly endless room to play, no annoying rearranging of mouse and mousepad Disadvantage: if you arw eating on your desk you wull often have to clean it, otherwise you will found sticky rests on your desks surface which prevent you from enjoying a game and let your ingame reactions slowdown. So you see it's on top of all a personal manner. I don't like ANY kind of mousepads |
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