Any professional Counter-Strike player knows very well that mouse acceleration prevents normal aiming and can play a cruel joke at the crucial moment of a battle. You yourself could get into a situation where the sight for no reason starts spinning wildly, and your hero shoots not where you need to.
Moreover, this statement is true for any version of the popular shooter (1.6, Source, GO). So, if you want to benefit your team, you will definitely have to disable the interfering option. But first, let's try to figure out what acceleration is and why it negatively affects the gameplay.
Acceleration destination
Mouse acceleration is necessary to control the speed of the cursor on the screen. In other words, the faster you move the mouse around the table, the faster the cursor will move. This feature is enabled on Windows by default, so in most cases the average user simply does not pay attention to it.
As for computer games, for many of them, acceleration is even useful. For example, in strategies, you can quickly move the cursor around the screen and control your units in this way. But things are different with shooters.
Imagine that the enemy comes to you from the side and you need to quickly turn to it. At this very moment, acceleration is triggered and your character, instead of aiming at the enemy, begins to spin around its axis. Agree, a rather unpleasant situation, which, by the way, is quite common in Counter-Strike. That is why you have no choice but to disable the mouse acceleration, otherwise you will constantly lose.
Turn off acceleration in Windows
As mentioned above, acceleration is natively included in Windows. The developers thought that in this way they would increase the convenience for users, but they did not think that playing shooters because of this would be uncomfortable. Therefore, before disabling mouse acceleration in CS: GO (well, or any other version of the game), you need to turn it off in the operating system settings. And for this:
- Go to the control panel and in the "View" tab, select the option "Large icons".
- Now open the "Mouse" category and switch to the "Index Options" section.
- Here you need to find the option "Enable increased pointer accuracy" and cancel it (uncheck).
- After that, confirm the changes and close the control panel.
That's all, you turned off mouse acceleration. At the same time, while working with the operating system, you will not notice much difference, but playing will become much more convenient. True, before you start the next battle in CS, you will need to turn off the acceleration also in the game itself, but this will be discussed below.
Acceleration in CS 1.6
The good old Counter-Strike 1.6 is still popular, despite the fact that it came out quite a while ago. Oddly enough, in this part of the gamers mouse acceleration causes problems. KS 1.6, unfortunately, is not full of settings, so you have to disable the annoying option by editing the settings for the shortcut. You can do this as follows:
- Right-click on the shortcut and go to "Properties".
- By default, you should have the “Shortcut” tab open. If this is not the case, then you need to manually switch to it.
- Now pay attention to the line "Object", because it is up to you to edit it. Just add the line “-noforcemaccel -noforcemparms –noforcemspd” (without quotation marks) here and save the changes.
You just have to go into the game and make sure that the changes take effect. To do this, simply run any card, and if everything is done correctly, in a few minutes you will notice the difference.
Acceleration in CS: Source
The developers of Counter-Strike: Source have done tremendous work on bugs. Here you will find updated graphics, and improved physics, and an expanded arsenal of weapons. In general, igrodely tried their best and presented fans of shooters a really high-quality project.
But still, one problem migrated from the previous version of the game. And of course, this is mouse acceleration. CS: Source, like the previous part, will not allow you to disable this option in the settings, so here you will also have to edit the shortcut. This is done in exactly the same way as in version 1.6.
It is worth saying that caring gamers have created a number of programs that allow you to disable acceleration in a few clicks. Their essence is that these applications automatically make all the changes and you do not have to do anything. Therefore, if you are too lazy to delve into the settings of the shortcut, you can download one of these programs and solve the problem in this way.
Acceleration in CS: GO
Well, the time has come to talk about CS: GO, which has already managed to become an e-sports discipline and bring even more fame to its developers. But here the acceleration of the mouse bothers the players here no less than in the previous parts. Fortunately, here the creators finally guessed to add the ability to disable this option in the settings. For this:
- Launch the game and go to settings.
- Go to the Keyboard / Mouse tab and scroll down the screen.
- Find the line “Mouse Acceleration” and put the switch in the “Off” position.
- Confirm your changes and enjoy a comfortable game.
By the way, despite the fact that acceleration can be disabled in the settings, sometimes it continues to work further. This happens infrequently, but the problems are serious. Therefore, do not forget to turn off the acceleration directly in the operating system, and only then in the game. So you save yourself from unnecessary headache.
Advice
After the acceleration of the mouse is disabled, you will also need to adjust the sensitivity. This is done in the game console using the “sensitivity X” command, where X is the number that is responsible for the speed of the sight. This parameter is individual for each gamer, so do not be too lazy to pick it up personally for yourself.
In addition, if you are already used to playing with acceleration, you should relearn. Yes, at first it will seem uncomfortable, but, having adapted, you will understand how much more accurately the shots became.
Also, after turning off the acceleration, it will be nice to spend several training matches with your friends and learn how to aim at a moving enemy. So you can feel all the changes and see how useful they are.