Who all is out there, setting different sensitivities for X and Y on their mouse settings? Does anybody actually do this? (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com to c/games@lemmy.world

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I've never met anyone who does this. I've never HEARD of anyone who does this. I cannot think of any possible reason WHY anyone would want to do this.

So why is it an option in so many games?

Why do so many games not even offer the option to change the X and Y sensitivity together? For a LOT of games, you have to set both X and Y independently, and make sure that you set them to the same value.

When you can just type in a number, or you can click increase/decrease buttons to advance the numbers, that's fine. But there are some games where it's just sliders, and you have to oh-so-carefully drag each slider, until the readout (which often goes to three digits after the zero) is where you want it.

It's not a huge problem, but I'm just asking: is there even anybody out there, who really wants to have different sensitivities, on each axis?

I'm not judging. I'm just really, really curious.

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[-] ManixT@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I love having these as separate options and I use them every time to increase the X axis sensitivity because that's where I will be moving the most drastically and I don't need the same rapid acceleration for minor Y axis adjustments.

[-] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago

I've never tried it deliberately, but every time I've accidentally set the X and Y to different values, it has just destroyed my accuracy and made me motion-sick, into the bargain.

But I guess you could get used to it, and then it could give some kind of objective advantage.