Mouse acceleration is a feature of XP that causes the mouse cursor to move faster than the mouse is actually being moved by the user. This is great for most programs as it makes it convenient to move your mouse cursor over large distances across your screen. For gaming, however, it is not so great, because your mouse movement is not consistent. The mouse fix makes a registry change that disables mouse acceleration.

In order to fully disable mouse acceleration on your computer and in Counter-Strike (1.6 and Source) do the following:

Step 1: Uncheck "Enhance Pointer Precision" in your mouse options (Start->Control Panel->Mouse->Pointer Options)



Step 2: Backup your registry ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322756#2 )

Although I have never heard of the mousefix giving problems to anyone, but better safe than sorry.

Step 3: Install the CPL mousefix by extracting it from the zip file and double clicking on it. When it asks if you wish to add this information to the registry, choose 'Yes'.

*** Link to CPL Mousefix: http://ftp.thecpl.com/mouse_fix.zip ***

Step 4: Restart your Computer

Step 5: Start Steam and open up the Games tab, right-click on Counter-Strike and go to properties and then click on "Launch Options"

Step 6: Add these three commands as I have them typed here with no quotation marks:

"-noforcemaccel -noforcemparms -noforcemspd"



(Some people state that the last two commands I have listed here don't actually do anything but I, as well as almost all other professional players still use these commands)

The reason that most top players remove mouse acceleration is because you want your mouse movements to be as consistent as possible. With mouse acceleration enabled, your sensitivity for the moment is based on the last type of movement you did. For example: if you start flicking your mouse around turning away from flash bangs and then immediately try to target an enemy far away, you will find that for a short time your mouse sensitivity will be higher due to mouse acceleration. Some players play with mouse acceleration on but you will find that most top players prefer it be turned off.

You should give this fix a try for a few days, if you end up not liking the way it feels after really playing with it for a while, here is a link to restore default Windows XP mouse settings (mouse accel on) and use this file: http://ftp.thecpl.com/removemousefix.zip It is applied in the same way as the other registry file that we used to remove acceleration in step 3. After adding this file to the registry don't forget to restart your computer .

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