[section_title title=”Synthetic Tests”]Synthetic Sensor TestingÂ
This section intended to be an attempt to improve the objectivity of our mouse reviews, it may seem meaningless and or odd to most of you but unlike most review sites we here at Play3r are always looking for areas to improve quality and this is an area I have identified as one that an admittedly small (but passionate) demographic will appreciate. The programs being used here are all homebrew and basic with varying degrees of accuracy so these results should always be taken with a pinch of salt (especially while I am still develping methodology) but I think it is essential to supplement the subjective content of my reviews with some (slightly) more scientific testing.
All my testing is done on an OcUK Mega Mat XXLÂ
Enotus Mouse Test v 0.1.4
Enotus mouse test can give us a few bits of sensor information such as DPI and polling rate. The methodology used in this benchmark is to always run it at the maximum DPI the mouse supports and also at 1000Hz.
The Elite did well, achieving excellent in all categories. The max speed of over 5 ms/s is impressive, but the software does not openly differentiate between max stable tracking speed and failure speed, so we can’t take the value as read. Otherwise the acceleration (precision) reading seems pretty good, the A9800 is known for having inherent acceleration but implementation makes a big difference and it seems to be fairly good here. Smoothness (snapping) is also very good as you would expect as it is one of the stronger points of the sensor.
Mouse Movement Recorder
This benchmark gives us a direct feed of sensor reading versus pointer movement and it also gives us an approximated polling rate. This benchmark is done on an open and run basis, but we run it at both 500 and 1000Hz to compare the two.
1000 Hz
As we can see the Elite did well here also. I did notice very occasional discrepancies between mouse and pointer movement but nothing concerning, on the whole good. Polling rate is fairly stable overall too, with the mouse managing to stick to 1000Hz most of the time, there are a few blips but nothing too alarming.
500Hz
The 500Hz performance was also pretty good, the polling rate was noticeably more stable here though.
Paint jitter testing
This is test is a bit less scientific, but drawing lines in paint gives a good visual representation of any jitter present. The methodology here is to perform the test at 1600 DPI, 3200 DPI, and finally the maximum DPI of the particular mouse which gives us means to keep results more consistent between optical and laser sensors. All tests are ran at 1000Hz.
1600 DPI
At 1600 DPI the Elite doesn’t display any significant jitter.
3200 DPI
The Elite looks pretty good at 3200 DPI too, there is a bit of jitter but nothing too alarming.
8200 DPi
Of course doing anything at 8200 DPI is quite tricky hence the slightly different design here, but as you can see the jitter performance at 8200 DPI is pretty respectable.
Right, lets move on and have a chat about the real world performance on the next page.
