Are there Tools which help to develop aiming capabilities?

Question

I've just bought a gaming mouse, and had to disable the acceleration (windows settings) for decent movement.

My question is, are there any tools available where I can find optimal settings (dpi)?

I thought about something where I would have to move to targets like little boxes, circles or something like that.

Answer

Since Team Fortress 2 is free to play, and it comes with a training mode (including bots!), it might work for your situation. You'd not only be testing your DPI settings, but you'd be practicing in a real game situation.

I also found this app, which is more along the lines of a 'move the mouse around to hit little circles' kind of deal. The app is a bit annoying though, with some loud background music. It still might be quicker than loading up TF2, or there's some other reason why it's not optimal for your testing needs.

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Mouse acting strange ingame, screen rotates on right mouse move

Question

ok so when i'm ingame (fullscreen) when I hold the right mouse button to zoom in with the scope on a weapon and then move the mouse to align it with a target, the screen just flips 90° in any direction so I need to find my bearings again and align it up again.

I got the problem with:

• Alien vs Predator
• Fallout 3
• Fallout New Vegas
• Medal of Honor 2010

but i don't have it with any of the Call of Duty games or Singularity.

So it is not a hardware problem. I also tried:

• swapping my mouse
• updating my gfx card
• switching from hold right mouse to toggle

but nothing helps.

Any idea what would be causing this?

Answer

I would guess that this is caused by a tool that came with your mouse that allows you to define custom actions for you mouse buttons. Try to find out if you have anything like that installed and deactivate it.

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