Catastrophic mouse issues.

[ShEsHy]

Thanks to a bug not hiding the hardware cursor (apparently have to manually disable visual themes or desktop composition under the Compatibility tab (basically disable Aero), but that's not the issue here), I can easily demonstrate just how much Skyrim's mouse behaviour sucks. The video was filmed with Fraps, at a fullscreen resolution of 1920x1080.

I didn't modify the Skyrim.ini or SkyrimPrefs.ini in any way (though I gave it a try later with mouse acceleration disabled, which made almost no difference).

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Just for kicks, I tested 800x500 in windowed mode and at that resolution, the hardware and ingame cursors almost overlapped.

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So, Anyone got any ideas if it's possible to fix it, or am I going to skip on the Skyrim DLCs (played it when it first came out and somehow managed to suffer through)?

[IsharaMeradin]

I'm guessing that you are complaining about the speed of the mouse in-game versus the speed of the windows cursor...

 

If you want to play around with the speed of the mouse on the X & Y axis then you'll need to add the following to your Skyrim.ini and tweak the values as you prefer.

 

[Controls]
fMouseHeadingYScale=0.0850
fMouseHeadingXScale=0.0040

 

I'm not even sure what the default value for those would be. Those are just the values I ended up with that gave my in-game movement a sense of sameness on the vertical versus horizontal. My in-game mouse is still slower than the windows cursor and I'm alright with that. If my in-game mouse were any faster I'd have problems trying to pick things up as it would make it difficult to line up and stop in the correct spot.

[ShEsHy]

I'm actually complaining about everything regarding the mouse (could go on about the UI aswell, but that's not the point here). It's unbelievable how they managed to make such a bad port, I mean the in-game mouse feels completely detached from the hardware cursor since the only thing they have in common is direction.

I've been tinkering with those settings, and so far haven't seen any noticeable difference. BTW, IIRC the default values were 0.0200 for Y and 0.0100 for X.

And here's the crux of my problem. I want the in-game cursor to behave the same way it does on my desktop, since that's the way I use my mouse. If I want a lower sensitivity, I can lower in on the mouse (granted, not all people have variable DPI, but that's what the mouse sensitivity slider in a game should be for) and I don't know or haven't heard of anyone that actually likes mouse acceleration/deceleration/smoothing/dampening/.... AFAIK that's just crap ported to us from consoles where ineffective directional pads need it.

 

Sorry about the rant, but it just pisses me off seeing Skyrim being so celebrated on the PC when it's a downright awfull port.

Back on topic, are there any other ini tweaks affecting the mouse besides the above mentioned heading(?) and acceleration?

Edited February 14, 2013 by ShEsHy