Lift Off Distance

Like it was expected, the LOD is very low. I love it, and everyone who liked the previous Zowies will feel right at home too. It is a bit higher than with my older IR-LED FK’14, but still very low. It still tracks at one CD but not at two. The old FK didn't even track at one CD height.

There is a novelty with the FK1 too. As many on this forum already know the 3310 allows for LOD to be customised. But normally you would need Software to adjust it to your liking. As Zowies philosophy is to not have software but change everything on the mouse directly this seems to be impossible on Zowies. But apparently it’s not.

There are methods to adjust LOD on the FK1 similar to how you change the polling rate on it.

The standard LOD out of the box is adjusted for cloth pads to be around 1.5 - 1.8 mm. However this would mean a higher LOD on a plastic pad (2.2 - 2.4 mm). To enable “plastic mouse pad mode” you have to hold Button 4 and Button 2 (back button on the side and right mouse button) while plugging the FK1 in. This causes the LOD to be around 1.5 - 1.8 mm on a plastic mouse pad (and around 1 mm on a cloth mouse pad)

To switch back to “cloth mouse pad mode” you have to plug it in while holding Button 4 and Button 1 (back button on the side and left mouse button).

Now there is also the so called “original mode”. This sets the LOD to be on a standard level and therefore should optimize the mouse compatibility for players with special material mousepads. It will have higher LOD than all other settings. So this is useful for those players who prefer a higher LOD (looking at you Dontspamme). You get the “original mode” by holding Button 4, 1 and 2 at the same time while plugging the FK1 in.

After setting the LOD once you don’t have to set it again every time you plug in the mouse, similar to the polling rate. I think it’s very nice that Zowie implemented a way to adjust LOD with the FK1 without software. You might not be able to finetune, but I think “low” and “high” LOD should be fine for most players anyway.

My experience with the modes:

Cloth mode on Qck+: 1 CD
Plastic mode on Qck+: did not track at 1 CD hight
Original mode: 2 CD

Only with original mode would the FK track on white paper.

Actually isn't lower but it's adjustable

seems like the G502 has a better sensor than any mouse now available (zowie mice included), besides that, its gimmicky look (useless buttons and everything) and its price are big problems for a lot of players, anyway the best zowie for you would probably be the EC since you've had only dextrous mice (g500/s g502), but as i said in another post on this forum, there's probably a refresh for the EC series coming out, by refresh i mean they'll probably mount the new 3310 (Fk1's sensor) which is the best sensor zowie used on its mice this far, on new ECs, this means no odd CPI steps anymore, lower LOD, faster in terms of m/s

erm im not sure i can get the sense in that

i prolly complained about number of slots, and about rules, maps... mmh i just think metalworks shouldn't be in the map pool anymore, i've never complained about players, maybe just that ppl tryhard, but that's common with every server i guess, now prove that you're smart, guess why i played on your server for 2 weeks "constantly" as you say

tryhardbrigade has many things wrong

prolly this causes your problem

brink looked much better and less bullshit than this honestly...

they didn't and i think they won't since this game is console rubbish and it's not for competitive scene at all

are you serious?

"tf_hud_showservertimelimit 1" but the default one is smaller and white coloured

http://i.imgur.com/yrE1GFK.png

^ the location is fine imo

i was referring to i52, as in the beginning they had problems and tftv couldn't stream some matches properly, anyway thanks for the infos, will see if me and some other pasta fags can come :)

if you're about to get an EC a guy on overclock.net suggested me to wait because zowie will probably refresh the EC series using the same sensor used on FK1 (PMW3310H), wich is slightly better than the one EC mice use now (A3060 and A3090 for the EC eVo series)

uhm ok i'll try. or i'll just take my pc somehow

you only have 1 ram module? if it's a yes, it's ok if it's a no, then run a memtest testing all modules