Consider the RSI-prone gamer. I would like to have healthy hands and wrists in older age and still use the computer.
Alternately: have you considered converting to trackball?
Are they good for gaming? Considering giving Xonotic (FPS) a try and I switched to a trackball some time ago due to wrist concerns.
Yes?
You gotta practice and set one up right for it but I never had a problem with trackballs and gaming. The biggest difference is that you’re using a different set of muscles for coarse/fine motion.
I got a Gameball which has been pretty good to me for the past year or so, but for the record I’m pretty casual when it comes to shooters I pretty much only play Helldivers 2.
I did a bit of searching and found a bunch. Not major peripheral brands, but a fair few with programmable buttons, adjustable DPI, wireless or wired etc. No idea if any of them are actually good or not. I assume they aren’t what you’re looking for, but just in case…
https://www.deluxworld.com/en-pro-detail-M618PR.html (Delux M618PR)
http://www.ergoguys.com/zlvegamorgbe.html (ZLOT Vertical Gaming Mouse)
https://mojotechinc.com/products/mojo-vertical-silent-gaming-mouse (Mojo vertical)
https://www.trust.com/en/product/22991-gxt-144-rexx-ergonomic-vertical-gaming-mouse (GXT 144 Rexx)there’s more but I’m already worried this will come across patronising lol.
Thanks for looking, but yeah these aren’t quite what I’m looking for. They’ve got the gamer lights and buttons, but the sensors in these are all the same as super cheapo scam gaming mouses that you might see at the checkout at Canadian Tire or flooding Amazon, but they’re generally pretty bad to use. Like they lose tracking or “drop frames” and just aren’t as smooth to use as an actual nice gaming mouse.
There’s like that one vertical gaming mouse from a bunch of different brands on amazon, I’ve bought it, it’s not terrible. I ended up going back to a normal mouse because it just didn’t feel like I could be precise enough for gaming.
Yeah it seems like everything is the exact same crappy jellybean off the shelf mouse put into different cases. Even the sensors in the high end vertical mouses like the MX master are only as good as just a regular desktop mouse.
Seems like capitalism just hasn’t made this market yet. Maybe in a few years when gamers start getting older.
Didn’t even know vertical mice were a thing until this post, they look cool.
You can do a mod where you insert the pcb from a favorite into a different shell. I wouldn’t try that with a wireless one tho.
It doesn’t have 16 buttons and I don’t think it does macros but I would Counter-Strike with it.
Going to xth any mouse can be a gaming mouse, just lower the dpi in settings. Because gamers aren’t of the age to combine ergonomic and gaming for it to be profitable, soon though.
What makes something a gaming mouse to you?
One Issue I have with vertical mice is when I try to move them quickly I tend to tip them over. Or when I’m not moving them quickly I still tend to tip them over.
Polling rate, ability to change between low and high DPI on the fly, programmable thumb buttons.
Most games are widescreen. There’s pinball tables and scrolling shooters, but those aren’t really genres that you use the mouse much in, so people get by with normal horizontal gaming mice.
