This happens when ever the screen is zoomed in no matter if it is in sight mode or not. Holding right click and scoping in is affected along with iron sights. It's a matter of zoom. The way all arma games changes the sensitivity when zoomed is based on a 4:3 system.

You should be able to move the mouse the same distance to aim at something that is on the monitor up close and at longer ranges, given that the objects are placed on the same spot on your screen (the position of the object is often measured in pixels on the monitor). When you zoom in currently the sensitivity is lowered in both the x and y axis, and you cannot move the mouse the same distance to aim at objects that are on the monitor at the same position on the monitor.

An easy way to test if the mouse sensitivity is scaled properly at all ranges of zoom is to test the amount of mouse distance that it takes to move an object across your monitor, test for un-zoomed view, then zoom in by double tapping the num-pad addition sign to zoom in and perform the same test. The amount of mouse movement to move an object from one side of the screen to another should be the same whether zoomed in or not.

Hello UknownEntity.
We have been testing the issue internally according to the steps you have provided, however, we were unable to reproduce the issue you have described so far. How much does the distance the mouse has to be moved differ for you between the zoomed and non zoomed mode? As during our testing the distance is approximately the same.
Regards,
Geez

I also don't quite understand the issue here.
Your sensitivity does not scale when zoomed in, yes - it remains the same. Otherwise there would be no point in scoping/zooming in to be more precise (only to see better) because slight mouse movement would turn you as much as it would when scoped out.
Let's say that the minimal movement you are able to make while zoomed out is 1px. Now use the Hunting Scope and that becomes 12px. You can't now precisely target something that's, say, 5px away from where you were looking before (and couldn't adjust the aim as the object looked too far away) because the slightest movement makes you turn by 12px.

In short, you're not supposed to always turn the same amount regardless of zoom (though there should probably be a scaling option - it exists on other shooters, CSGO included). Zooming in is so you could be more precise, and with 1:1 scaling, you would not be.

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In T126158#1633660, @hleV wrote:

I also don't quite understand the issue here.
Your sensitivity does not scale when zoomed in, yes - it remains the same. Otherwise there would be no point in scoping/zooming in to be more precise (only to see better) because slight mouse movement would turn you as much as it would when scoped out.
Let's say that the minimal movement you are able to make while zoomed out is 1px. Now use the Hunting Scope and that becomes 12px. You can't now precisely target something that's, say, 5px away from where you were looking before (and couldn't adjust the aim as the object looked too far away) because the slightest movement makes you turn by 12px.

In short, you're not supposed to always turn the same amount regardless of zoom (though there should probably be a scaling option - it exists on other shooters, CSGO included). Zooming in is so you could be more precise, and with 1:1 scaling, you would not be.

My problem is that it should take the same amount of mouse movement to move a certain amount of pixels on screen, but the current system scales your mouse sensitivity differently when zoomed in so that your sensitivity gets decreased and it takes more mouse movement to move the screen the same amount of pixels on screen. Mouse sensitivity is pixel based and is scaled differently in 4:3 and 16:9 screens. hope this clears things up.

Mark the starting point of your mouse and mark the distance it takes your mouse to move a distant virtual object from one side of the screen to another horizontally, then do the same test using the same starting point as before. in the end you should have two lines representing the mouse sensitivities, if the two lines overlap you have 1:1 mouse sensitivity if they don't then the mouse sensitivity is scaled incorrectly when zoomed in. Do not use a scope where you cant see the borders of your screen.

You will only notice it if you play at a lower sensitivities where it takes you around 11cm to move an object on the screen from one border to the other border horizontally.

Hello UnknownEntity.
Can you be more specific on the mouse sensitivity? Can you send us a screenshot of your exact settings in windows? Also, do you use some third party program to adjust the sensitivity as well?
Regards,
Geez

Sorry, totally missed your post by a good 6 months.

I use the config file to change my mouse sensitivity manually and to fine tune it.
Here are the lines that I changed:
mouseSensitivityX=0.01207029;
mouseSensitivityY=0.01207029;

I made a graphic which explains how to reproduce it. Hopefully this will help fix the problem.

Thank you,

You have to click on the image to see it. It's too big!