Hot take: I spent 20 years using mouse acceleration before I turned it off last month

I was playing Counter-Strike with my cousin who is 15 years younger than me. He watched me try to flick to a headshot and just laughed. Asked why my mouse was acting like it was drunk. I had no idea what he was talking about. Turns out mouse acceleration has been on by default in Windows since forever and I just got used to it. Turned it off in the control panel and my aim got better in about 2 days. Made me wonder what else I just accept as normal. Has anyone else had that one setting or habit they used for years that turned out to be totally wrong?

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reese1771mo ago

Oh man, turning off mouse acceleration was a game changer for my aim too!

johns181mo ago

Did you mess with your DPI setting too after turning off acceleration? I dropped mine from real high down to 800 and bumped my in-game sensitivity a bit, felt way more consistent in Valorant especially. Took like a week to get used to not having that floaty feel but now I can track heads way better than before.