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Graphics

First well talk about DPI. DPI is mostly preference as long as you're using a native DPI to your mouse. What's native DPI for your mouse depends and most modern mice are native on every dpi thats usually available to them (atleast for zowie mice). The reason you want to stay on a Native DPI to the sensor is basically because if it upscales to something not native to the sensor through software means it will not be accurate and probably include some sort of acceleration. DPI gets confused by alot of people as an indication of how many pixels your mouse will move in correlation to real life difference but it's not true. I'm not here to explain the nuances of it you can google it yourself but just know DPI really does not matter at all unless its not native to your sensor. There are theories that higher DPI is actually better but tbh I don't think it really matters since your sensitivity will be more about comfortability than anything and over time using it you'll be able to do any sort of movement slow or fast. I personally have always used 800 DPI ( since zowie scales 400 800 etc ) but when I had a logitech I always used 1000. This is mostly preference since I hated using 400 dpi in windows and anything above 1000 was awkwardly fast for me. Again DPI really doesn't matter unless it's not a native setting to the mouses sensor because you really don't want any added acceleration or anything on your mouse and you can change DPI anytime you want and do simple math to maintain the same sensitivity in game and see for yourself if it feels any different. Now what is important is polling rate. This is the frequency in how often your mouse checks for movement. You ideally want this as high as possible (most modern mice are default 1000 now) although some weirods like setting it lower I guess because they got use to a lower setting and don't like change (CSGO players are like little babies that refuse to accept change thinking itll mess up their skill just because they use something doesn't mean it's better you need to understand their mentality). Lastly obviously make sure your windows settings are 6/11 as this is a 1x multiplier on sensitivity. This isn't that important anymore since most games bypass this but if you do play an older game it's good to just have this set 6/11 so you don't get any accerlation or vice versa.If you do have a brand new monitor most likely you will have the ability to play with lot of settings. Most will have default settings you can select like FPS1 FPS2 etc. Personally if you use a BenQ like me I can recommend the FPS1 or 2 settings as I find them pretty accurate colorwise but still give you a nice boost to saturation and contrast without sacrificing much. There are ways to calibrate monitors for accurate colors but you can google that yourself as for gaming purposes most people prefer high contrast/Saturation so make enemies pop. Remember doing this will tend to mess with the colors and not give you true color and over expose some things. So if you're gonna watch a movie or something probably better to swap to a different setting but most people don't seem to care or even notice. Personally I use an exe to get my monitor to near perfect color settings when I watch videos but when I play FPS or games in general I usually have high saturation/contrast going. You can control these things through graphics card settings and I generally recommend doing that versus messing around in the monitors settings. To make it simple just setup your monitor as clean as possible and use the Graphic cards settings to adjust when you play so you can quickly swap back and forth. One other thing to check in your monitor settings for things like instant mode and AMA and Blur reduction and figure out what you want on and what you don't For BenQ users AMA should be set to High or Premium (some games can give weird issues on premium) if you don't use this setting with your 144hz monitor you're gonna get ghosting and have increased latency. People forget about this setting and its actually pretty important as it'll smooth out lot of the fast movements youll make in FPS games. As for whether to use premium or high setting just try them both in game see what you prefer. If you notice weird artifacting with premium just set it to high. For more indepth on what all the settings do please refer to google on your specific monitor as most people will post good setups for each monitor. For BenQ monitors only thing i can recommend is AMA-high, Blur redution-OFF (gives input delay being on and makes monitor dim ♥♥♥♥♥♥ setting), Instant mode-ON (this is how your gaming monitor gets 1ms response times it needs to be on or you wasted your money buying a low latency gaming monitor), Black Equalizer I personally use 15 but most recommend 0 however I never had issues with it and with my specific calibration 15 is required to maintain proper colors.Now what's most important. I will cover Sensitivity and graphical settings here. First for sensitivity I cannot stress enough not to copy other peoples. Sensitivity is preference and different for everyone. You do not have the same handsize, reflexes, and gear as whoever you are probably copying. Sensitivity is something you need to spend lot of time on your own adjusting and figuring out. Black Squad in particular took me about a full month to finally find a comfortable sensitivity with trial and error so it's a long process. I highly suggest a lower sensitivity to start and slow bump up as needed. For Blacksquad I recommend anything from 3-4.5 in game sensitivity @800 DPI. Where you fit in here is depending on your mouse, reflexes, grip style, and whether or not you prefer wrist or arm movement. if your dpi isn't @800 just do some basic math to figure out what the sensitivity range is for you (if your @400 double the in-game sens so your range would be 6-9). I'm a hybrid wrist/arm player so for me anything below 3 was WAY to slow to be useful and consistant and anything past 4.5 was way too fast to control. Of course there will be people who can use super high sensitivities past 4.5 but I really don't recommend it because the few people I have seen play at these settings have terrible crosshair placement and general control of their mouse. You want a sensitivity that is comfortable to move around with and make fast adjustments with while still maintaining control and accuracy without thinking about it. If you have to forcibly think about where your crosshair is and constantly adjust your mouse all the time your sensitivity probably needs to be changed. At the end of the day you want something that is comfortable in every situation for you and becomes second nature without thinking about it. You ideally want to be able to flick your mouse and know exactly where its going to go everytime and be able to perform 180's without killing yourself or over shooting. With enough trial and error you'll eventually find that setting that just works for you and feels right. You can maintain a headshot level crosshair placement and have no trouble lining up angles and snapping to corners without even thinking about it. The best way to improve Aim is staying on a consistant sensitivity for a long period of time to develop muscle memory. If you cannot keep your crosshair on a target and track it you need to look into changing your sensitivity. Thankfully I stream so it's easy for me to go back and see if I was leading the target too much and overshooting or not keeping up so I could adjust sens high or lower as needed. It's fine to slightly adjust your sens every now and then because we are human not robots and sometimes things change but I don't recommend going much higher or lower than .2 so if you're 3.5 adjustments from 3.3-3.7 won't ruin your muscle memory much.Literally perference. all LOW if you're try hard.