nope

mouseware has killed more people than AIDS
i used one for a long time just fine without drivers

sure you don't really see a need to use mouseware, because aimbot giving you some kind of performance)))

you can stop now

why? Why would anyone ever stop stating truth?

truth is debatable

the truth is outhere))
who tell you that my name walter outlaw??? my realname is FOX MULDER!!

Drivers enable 800 dpi with the mx500.

i thought the mx500 read at 800DPI default(regardless if drivers are installed or not), the only way to make it run at 400DPI was using the logitech advanced mouseware?

i remember reading people saying it defaulted at 400 dpi without drivers. with drivers, some even 'claimed' it emulated 800 dpi, not true 800 dpi.

i just checked sujoy's mousescore, and he says it's 400 dpi. so i guess the claims were true.

400dpi is the hardware, drivers can double it.

and if the drivers double it, it's probably bad news
im sure they're using something like interpolating, like dslr companies use to pump out say 10megapixels out of a 5megapixel camera
more pixels at the loss of overall image quality

That's not true imo, I just wrote myself a tool to switch to 800dpi without the drivers. I just send one message to the usb device and it changes to 800dpi. Don't know who came up with the software thingy but that's not true!

it's true for digital cameras, at least
i know that mice with switchable dpi work by "clipping" the area that the sensor is picking up, thus reducing the dpi count.

Because you definitely can't fake 800dpi on the hardware side!

I didn't say that, the rumours always say that the DRIVERS are faking the interpolation and the 800dpi, and I just said/mean that is just proven wrong. I can switch from 400dpi to 800dpi and vice versa with windows drivers + a tool.

read what sujoy wrote in mousescore for mx300 or mx500

Mouseware is shit, never use it. Worst thing ever.

I found Logitech's "setpoint implementation" giving better results than the "windows implementation" with my G3 (which I never seriously used btw).

Although I dont recall why lol :D
I think it was accel, if you search well on this forum, you'll find it.

I had the same with my mx518, using setpoint implementation fixed any accel.

Use Mouseware, not Sepoint if its a 500. Then use also MWAdvanced app.

I've owned mx510 which was also supposed to be 800dpi, and i've used the DA and mx518 which can acutally run at 800dpi (900 for DA), which feels entirely different from 400dpi.

800, as compared to 400 dpi, is pretty much doubling your sensitivity. if u use sens of 4 it would feel (almost) like using 8, once u switched to 800dpi.

if ur not experiencing anything like that when supposedly switching back and forth from 400 to 800 dpi, then the mx500 does not function at 800dpi.

well my mx510 felt quite different between 400dpi and 800dpi (imo not just half/double sens), but I set that stuff in linux which might do something completely different than windows drivers :s but I think the mouse is really capable of 800dpi