There is no way to disable the acceleration in laser sensors as it is a limitation of the current technology used in those sensors, and from the graphs I've seen the accel is fairly inconsistent so even if there was a software setting to counteract it I doubt it would be reliable.
But there is no such setting in the SteelSeries Engine software.
People give me **** for mentioning this, but screw it. Don't care.
Laser and Optical are one in the same. Optical LED and Optical Laser (VCSEL) The most common designs share basic frame capture CMOS tech. Philips Twin Eye is quite unique as it makes use of 2 beams to detect motion via doppler for sensing.
The whole laser mice = acceleration is derived from the Avago 9500/9800 sensor architecture. Any alternative solution that has been released functions as linearly as what many consider the best optical LED mice. Cypress ONS I.. Agilent/Avago 60XX.. to name a couple.
Philips Twin Eye, the competitor to Avago 9500/9800 is inherently "acceleration free" **.
** Technically, no mouse is really free from acceleration when tested via machine.
Thing is that nearly all laser mice use some variation of the 9500, 9800 or PTE, which might be accel free but flawed in other ways. Afaik all the mice using alternative laser sensors are old models that are no longer available.
But thanks for clearing it up, I wasn't really aware of the alternative laser sensors as I haven't delved that deep into it. I mostly concern myself with what something is, the basics of how it works and what it will mean to the end-user in practice rather than the finer details of how something works, so my knowledge is somewhat limited.
Yes that's understood, but my goal is to illustrate architectural sensor limitation(s) rather than associating "accel" with a type of illumination source on its own. It's just silly imho^^
Many mistake me of defending specific mice or rather sensor model, when I'm merely trying to explain the source. I suppose I'm expected to give out a "x is better than x" explanation, but I feel more proper to accept opinions as I've become fairly neutral overtime.
Nowadays there are things being added to the mouse sensor for the sake of increasing CPI count. Would consider that a bigger threat ^^
So what do you own and prefer?
I've owned many many mice. I'm partial to choose preferred shape over perfection on all fronts. There are designs I rather adore, but feel the hardware quality per model isn't the greatest (G100 for example) Still doesn't mean its a bad mouse if fully functional. Kinda same way people perceive some mice as bad (A lot rzr mice), while they're halfway decent vs market from a hardware perspective. Happens with keyboards quite often.
Currently using a self modded LH DA.
Also Like in no specific order:
Kone Pure shape (RH palm, fits perfect resting, I'll still claw it gaming)
IE 3.0 shape (RH)
Spawn Shape (RH)
IO 1.1 Shape
G1/G3/Mx300/G100 shape
Abyssus Shape
Xai Shape
etc..
But this is all subjective. I recommend finding a nice shape and going from there.
Sensor wise, I'm not really content with anything really. Not in a bad way either as I'm really fine with each of those. It's more of me being stubborn with a few things related to sensor manufacturer.