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A player in Counter-Strike 2 inspects their knife in front of a wall with colourful graffiti on it.

Sensitivity is a very personal thing, particularly in a game like Counter-Strike 2.

Counter-Strike 2 doesn’t have a built-in Mouse Acceleration setting like CS:GO had.

To disable Mouse Acceleration in Windows for CS2:

DPI and eDPI: What’s the difference?

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Every mouse has a DPI setting.

DPI stands for “Dots Per Inch”, and it’s the built-in sensitivity of your mouse itself.

The trade-off is that high sensitivity can make it harder to do small, precise movements.

Two players shoot at one another down a tunnel in Counter-Strike 2.

A line-up of five Counter-Strike 2 players on the same Counter-Terrorist team at the beginning of a match.

Two players shoot at one another around a corner outside in one of the Counter-Strike 2 maps.

A top and bottom comparison of the same view of B bomb site on Dust II in Counter-Strike 2, with two different aspect ratios. Top: Native 16:9. Bottom: Stretched 4:3.

A revised de_overpass in Counter-Strike 2.

The location of the CS2 executable file in Windows Explorer.

A screenshot of the Steam settings menu on the Library tab.