shorasInoI might have used a wrong word, but you could just watch the video I linked to see what I meant.shorasHigher DPI = more precision, but the mouse's native DPI might also matter.
Also this: https://youtu.be/NUiGkDB_48s
CPI =/= precision, it's just the speed of the cursor, meaning how many counts the mouse sends to the PC for every inch of movement. The higher precision in games comes from lower in-game sensitivity which reduces the angular change per count.
Also in my experience there is something like too much CPI/too low in-game sens where it starts to feel floaty. For my low sens of 60cm/360° I prefer 400 CPI@1.8 because it feels more controlled than 1800@0.45 for example.
I understood what you meant, I just wanted to clear that part up because the video has mistakes. What he presents there is just the effect of lowering in-game sens to 0.3. Keep 400 CPI, use 0.3 sens and you won't get staircase movement either. Also what he shows there is pretty much irrelevant in a real world scenario because the area in which the staircase effect happens on normal fov settings is less than one pixel. There isn't an obvious negative effect to doing that, but personally I don't like how a very low in-game sens feels, the movement becomes floaty. Ymmv on that, some might prefer that feeling.
Also the term of native CPI is misleading in that video, because the sensor used there is the 3310 which has native steps in 50 CPI increments, Zowie just limits them due to not wanting to offer software. The whole "native steps" debate comes from the old age of A3090 (or older) sensors where you had to apply some trickery to gain steps between the native 400, 800, 1600 etc.and is not really applicable anymore.
It's still correct that you should not use a too high CPI, but that has nothing to do with native steps and is only because even the best CMOS sensors still jitter at settings higher than 3200. Depending on type of sensor this threshold can be higher or a bit lower even. For most sensors if you don't want smoothing you should even stay <=2000 CPI.
EDIT: my bad, he explains some of that at the end of the video.