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[Homers]

finally got a working version of morrowind, installed, and......my pointer moves awfully slow/sluggishly. i try updating my drivers but with aol and its lightning speeds (im not serious at all) downloading anything takes forever and gateways instructions on how to install their downloads are like teaching a cow to backflip, help anyone????


ps: my first message ever!

[Baphomet]

Welcome to the Forums!

Try Start/Control Panel/Mouse (properties), "Pointers" tab.
You can set your pointer speed and/or acceleration to your taste.

[ShadowHunter]

If your mouse is a PS/2 mouse and NOT a USB mouse you can do the following to help it out a bit.

Got to Control Panel>Hardware>Device Manager>Mouse>Properties>Advanced. Now change the Sample Rate to 100Hz and change the Buffer Length as high as it will go (300 in Windows 2000).

This is for Windows 2000 and to do this might be a little different but nearly the same in each version of Windows.

[Morgoth]

Now, I've got a similar problem, and could live with it, but since it kinda fits in here (I think), I'll simply describe:

I experience (strangely not always) a massively decreased movement speed of my view (using the mous), but only in interiors, wherefore a simple raising of the mouse sensitivity (?) does not help. Accompanying this, the keyboard commands for activating, switching between magic, weapon, etc. do not work properly, but I have to hit the keys several times... anyone who can tell me where the problem lies?

[HeLLL]

I used to have this problem all the time. The easyest way I found was to restart. From my experiances Morrowind and RAM suck. There is a massive ram leak somewhere im sure of it. Anyway, I noticed that it happened more often than not when I changed the maxium number of FPS in the Morrowind.ini file. You need to have the FPS inside quite high <like 180 or something> I changed it to 80 and the mouse moved very slow. If how ever the maxium FPS is not set low than restarting seems to work. Windows doesn't clean out the ram most of the time so redudent programs etc can be still loaded slowing down response time.

Hope Ive helped

[Homer]

thanks all for the suggestions, I will have to try them since the current solution I am on is to run on 680 x 800 or whatever it is which helped quite a bit actually plus I turned up mouse sensitivity as well. now I just have to fix my map probs (no color just squares) which I hope is just a video problem which I am currently trying to update. thanks again

[Pob]

Another very simple suggestion.

Not sure if you have optical mouse or not, if you do this wont work. I had the same problem the other day and turned my mouse over took the ball out and the 3 wheels inside where covered in dirt. Cleasned them off mouse works loads better now. You will need a small screwdriver to undo the mouse.

[Morgoth]

Hehe, thanks, but I bought an optical mouse after i had to clean my old one every week ;P And also thanks for the other suggestion, I'll try it out.