Understanding mouse DPI and Poll Rate

motivation Hi there, I have been curious about what the real definitions of mouse DPI and poll rate are as well as what type of information is sent across by the mouse to the computer. I am curious because I'd like to be able to understand what the benefits or detriments there are to changing different parameters of a mouse. These motivations are coming from playing FPS games on a computer. my understanding sent information From what I can gather a mouse would most likely sending be sending over mouse movement deltas to the computer. These deltas represent in some form how much the mouse's mov

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