You cannot match a 2D desktop pointer to a video game that rotates a 3D world in any meaningful way whatsoever. Unfortunately, if this was your reason for this whole endeavour, you have wasted your time.
I like 800 DPI (almost every pro gamer uses 800 DPI at 1920x), so 1920/800 = 2.4īut when I use it for everything else in my life I want to make sure the mouse moves the exact same way so I build muscle memory with the mouse, increasing accuracy in all aspects in every game Take your horizontal resolution from Mac (Apple -> About This Mac -> "Displays" tab)ġ920x1200 Windows resolution with 100% scaling
Take your horizontal resolution from Windows (*MAKE SURE SCALING IS AT 100%, NOT 125%/150%/etc.) If you’re trying to get your mouse on your Mac to feel and move EXACTLY how it does on your Windows operating system. AND THE MATH WORKS FOR THAT TOO! (math guys ik you feel me that this is the best feeling there is)Ģ880 / (2600 (.46 )) = 2.4 inches!
** Mac OSX sets all mouse movements to a 6:13 (46%) DPI ratio that you CANNOT CHANGE without external applications (consume CPU and cost money, screw that). should equalĪfter going nuts trying to find the ratio of the unchangeable pointer speed in Mac and having no luck, I broke out my ruler (literally) and started measuring distances on my mouse pad to figure this out.įor me to cross my cursor from left to right on my screen in Windows with the settings i mentioned above, it takes EXACTLY 2.4 inches of moving my mouse horizontally (even the math works! 1920 / 800 = 2.4 inches)įor this to happen (2.4 inch cross) in Mac with the settings mentioned above, we would assume it would be 2880/2.4 = 1200 DPI. so 1.5 x DPI to equal the vertical measure of the display. Windows: 800DPI 1920x1200 Resolution and a 1:1 ratio pointer speed you would think that I would just have to adjust the DPI for the different resolution. So with both operation systems having all accelerations off, and the pointer speed in Windows set at the 6th notch out of 11 (1:1 ratio!). (that is why when you set acceleration to 0 in Razer Synapse on Mac, it overrides the Tracking Speed mentioned above and makes it 0). The thing is, Mac does not give us the option to change the pointer speed! The "Tracking Speed" in the System Preferences > "Mouse", is actually acceleration. Now I don't play games on my Mac operating system, but when I use it for everything else in my life I want to make sure the mouse moves the exact same way so I build muscle memory with the mouse, increasing accuracy in all aspects in every game. In Razer Synapse I make sure my Acceleration is also at 0 and my DPI is 800.
Now when in the mouse settings in Windows, under the "pointer options" tab, I have my "pointer speed" selected at 6/11 (1:1 ratio) with the EPP (acceleration) UNchecked (as every PC gamer has it for both of these settings). this does not change anything to most of you with 16:9 (i.e. The display resolution on my Mac is 2880x1800 and on Windows its 1920x1200 (both 16:10 of course.
I have a Razer Naga as well as Razer Synapse downloaded on both operating systems. I play PC games via Bootcamp (Windows 10 64-bit) on a mid-2014 15' Retina MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz (4.2 Turbo), 16 GB RAM.
This is something I spent over 8 hours researching and going crazy over because this information is nowhere on the internet.