Help with mouse sensitivity please

Aries · 01-20-19, 04:16 PM

Hi all, coming back to Silent Hunter after a long hiatus. New machine, new OS, took a bit to get the game working. But now I'm having a problem controlling my views. My mouse movements are WAY too sensitive and my views are swinging wildly all over the place. It's very hard to properly search the horizon when the slightest nudge spins my periscope 20 degrees! Does anyone have a solution I might be able to use? I'm running Silent Hunter 4 with the U-Boat expansion from Steam on a Win 10 machine with an Nvidia graphics card. Any help or ideas woule be appreciated!

propbeanie · 01-20-19, 05:37 PM

Which folder is the game installed in? Steam does like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam \SteamApps \common \Silent Hunter...", which will complicate your life later if you go to use mods.

Do you have any mods installed at this time? When doing the Steam v1.5 with Uboat Missions, there is a 2nd SH4 start link. Are you starting from the Steam Library page?

Aries · 01-20-19, 08:35 PM

Thank for replying! The install is located in D:/Steam Games/steamapps/common/Silent Hunters Wolves of the Pacific. I have no mods whatsoever, only SH4 and U-Boat missions and I'm using the Uboat Missions shortcut to start the game. Are there any other updates? I'm still working my way through the mod workshop, but unless I can get this fixed there won't be a lot of point.

propbeanie · 01-20-19, 08:43 PM

Now, that is the "latest / greatest", and over 10 years old... sigh... Does all of the 3D ships & sea look OK in the game? You don't happen to have any other graphic anomalies?... I've got several "brands" of laser mice on my desktops and laptops, and the only thing I can think of is a configuration applet for the mouse, like a Logitech or Microsoft "Mouse Properties"... ?? The game uses whatever Windows gives it, which does come through the DirectX interface, so be sure your DirectX v9.0C installed with the game.

Aries · 01-20-19, 10:44 PM

Everything looks fine so far. I've not started a career yet, only the training missions. I'll poke around my mouse settings and see if I can tune the sensitivity for just SH4. I was hoping there was some hidden setting or confit that I could edit, like in some other games. Thanks!

propbeanie · 01-21-19, 07:32 AM

I do not recall there being any mouse sensitivity settings in the game, though there may well be. Perhaps someone else will chime in about it.

I do know one thing that will greatly affect the mouse in the game, and that is if you "shell-out" to windows while playing - er, "testing" your set-up... The game is an old WinXP game, using a single core on your computer, and expects exclusive use of all the resources, especially the video and audio streams. If you use the Windows key, or the <Alt><Tab> or <Ctrl><Tab> combinations to leave the game and go out to the Windows desktop to do something else (or if the cat comes along and walks across your keyboard

), then when you go back in, the game seems somewhat confused, and you will notice the mouse being overly sensitive, as well as other "glitches". The use of high Time Compression settings (sometimes as low as a TC > 2048) can also affect things like that at times.

01-20-19, 04:16 PM	#1
Aries Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 11 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Help with mouse sensitivity please Hi all, coming back to Silent Hunter after a long hiatus. New machine, new OS, took a bit to get the game working. But now I'm having a problem controlling my views. My mouse movements are WAY too sensitive and my views are swinging wildly all over the place. It's very hard to properly search the horizon when the slightest nudge spins my periscope 20 degrees! Does anyone have a solution I might be able to use? I'm running Silent Hunter 4 with the U-Boat expansion from Steam on a Win 10 machine with an Nvidia graphics card. Any help or ideas woule be appreciated!

01-20-19, 05:37 PM	#2
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 9,749 Downloads: 439 Uploads: 2	Which folder is the game installed in? Steam does like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam \SteamApps \common \Silent Hunter...", which will complicate your life later if you go to use mods. Do you have any mods installed at this time? When doing the Steam v1.5 with Uboat Missions, there is a 2nd SH4 start link. Are you starting from the Steam Library page? __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayer/s" - Jimbuna

01-20-19, 08:43 PM	#4
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 9,749 Downloads: 439 Uploads: 2	Now, that is the "latest / greatest", and over 10 years old... sigh... Does all of the 3D ships & sea look OK in the game? You don't happen to have any other graphic anomalies?... I've got several "brands" of laser mice on my desktops and laptops, and the only thing I can think of is a configuration applet for the mouse, like a Logitech or Microsoft "Mouse Properties"... ?? The game uses whatever Windows gives it, which does come through the DirectX interface, so be sure your DirectX v9.0C installed with the game. __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayer/s" - Jimbuna

01-21-19, 07:32 AM	#6
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 9,749 Downloads: 439 Uploads: 2	I do not recall there being any mouse sensitivity settings in the game, though there may well be. Perhaps someone else will chime in about it. I do know one thing that will greatly affect the mouse in the game, and that is if you "shell-out" to windows while playing - er, "testing" your set-up... The game is an old WinXP game, using a single core on your computer, and expects exclusive use of all the resources, especially the video and audio streams. If you use the Windows key, or the <Alt><Tab> or <Ctrl><Tab> combinations to leave the game and go out to the Windows desktop to do something else (or if the cat comes along and walks across your keyboard ), then when you go back in, the game seems somewhat confused, and you will notice the mouse being overly sensitive, as well as other "glitches". The use of high Time Compression settings (sometimes as low as a TC > 2048) can also affect things like that at times. __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayer/s" - Jimbuna

01-20-19, 08:35 PM	#3
Aries Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 11 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Thank for replying! The install is located in D:/Steam Games/steamapps/common/Silent Hunters Wolves of the Pacific. I have no mods whatsoever, only SH4 and U-Boat missions and I'm using the Uboat Missions shortcut to start the game. Are there any other updates? I'm still working my way through the mod workshop, but unless I can get this fixed there won't be a lot of point.

01-20-19, 10:44 PM	#5
Aries Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 11 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Everything looks fine so far. I've not started a career yet, only the training missions. I'll poke around my mouse settings and see if I can tune the sensitivity for just SH4. I was hoping there was some hidden setting or confit that I could edit, like in some other games. Thanks!