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Mouse Sluggish in RTS pack

by Andy Schatz · in RTS Starter Kit · 03/18/2005 (4:20 pm) · 2 replies

Has anyone else noticed that the mouse feels sluggish in the RTS pack? And I don't just mean that the mouse speed is slow. Perhaps this is due to the mouse only being updated at the game frame rate. Perhaps we are simply losing updates. I'm really not sure. It always seems like the mouse is quite smooth in other RTSs, but in this pack, it doesn't seem to receive all the appropriate updates.

I am simply testing this by moving the mouse around quickly in windows, and then comparing it to moving the mouse around in the game. The speed appears about equal, but it feels like it isn't getting updated often enough.

Any thoughts from people out there using the pack? My hyenas like slow and slightly spastic mice, but I do not.

By the way, I haven't congratulated the GG guys on the great product they've put out there. You guys are single handedly fueling a small industry. Thank you.

Andy
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Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#1
03/18/2005 (6:16 pm)
Would you mind running a comparison test against the TGE SDK mouse movement (you'll have to turn mouselook off to get the mouse as a cursor, and possibly cursor set to yes as well)? There shouldn't be any modifications at all to how the mouse cursor itself moves, and I personally don't see any performance loss on my kit, so I'm trying to identify if it's possibly a system issue (driver most likely).

If you don't/can't get that working, could you compare the cursor performance when in the lobby to when actually in game?

Torque 3D Owner Andy Schatz
#2
03/21/2005 (11:00 am)
I ran a test against TGE while in the UI design mode... It looks like I may have sniffing glue at the time. Which would explain the rash.

In other words, I think I sent out a false alarm on this one. The behavior I was seeing I think can be attributed to a bad wireless mouse.

Thanks for helping anyways,
Andy