Mouse moves sloooowwwwww

geoschmo · #1 November 29th, 2006, 05:56 PM

I didn't have this problem with the beta, but I did all my beta testing on a desktop. Now that I'm playing with the retail version I've lodaded it on my laptop, which actually has better specs than the desktop. Anyway, when setting up a game I don't seem to have any problem, but when I get to the system view my mouse moves real slow, like it's moving through water. It gets where I'm pointing it, but lags significantly behind my hand movements. It's hard to go do anything precise because I'm always overcompensating and waiting for it to catch up.

I've seen posts on the other forum about this, but no difinetive fix for it. Anyone else having this problem? It's very annoying and makes playing a chore.

I've tried nerfing all the display settings, but that doesn't seem to help.

Captain Kwok · #2 November 29th, 2006, 06:32 PM

I think someone mentioned before that disabling SLI on the video card (if it has it) improved this problem? But I'm not sure if I'm just remembering another graphic-type glitch or not.

Thy_Reaper · #3 November 29th, 2006, 06:53 PM

I have this problem also, but I'm running on a desktop. It's not a bad one, either, since it can run HL2 and Civ4 very well, and Oblivion... moderately... But then it plays SE:V, and gets about 35 fps without any menus up. It drops down to between 10 and 20 fps with menus.

What kind of video card does your laptop have?
I have a Radeon 9800 Pro.

geoschmo · #4 November 29th, 2006, 10:12 PM

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Thy_Reaper said:
What kind of video card does your laptop have?
I have a Radeon 9800 Pro.

Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset, whatever that is.

geoschmo · #5 November 29th, 2006, 11:51 PM

I downloaded the most recent display drivers just to make sure. Didn't help.

It only seems to be a problem in the system display and in combat. In all the menu screens it works just fine. It seems like it's just on screens where there is any motion happening on screen. Is it possible to stop the planets from rotating in the system display?

Geoschmo

Phoenix-D · #6 November 30th, 2006, 12:00 AM

Yes, but it probably won't help, if the problem occurs in combat too.

Search for rotation in the data folder..not sure which file its in. :/

President_Elect_Shang · #7 November 30th, 2006, 12:01 AM

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Captain Kwok said:
...disabling SLI on the video card (if it has it) improved this problem?

That is what fixed this problem for me.

geoschmo · #8 November 30th, 2006, 12:09 AM

I don't see anything about SLI anywhere. Must not have it I guess.

geoschmo · #9 November 30th, 2006, 12:15 AM

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Phoenix-D said:
Yes, but it probably won't help, if the problem occurs in combat too.

Search for rotation in the data folder..not sure which file its in. :/

Hrm, well it looks like I could remove the rotation for every planet in the XFileClasses_Stellar.txt file. That seems like a lot of work though. Is there not some global setting somewhere?

Phoenix-D · #10 November 30th, 2006, 12:26 AM

As far as I can tell, no.