Help with mouse sensitivity please

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.

Front Runner · 01-21-19, 10:49 AM

You can set your Mouse Pointer speed in the Mouse Properties page in Windows 10.

https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/change-...ed-windows-10/

If you have a "Customizable Mouse" such as the R.A.T. 7, they come with a configuration applet. My RAT 7 has programmable pointer speeds which I have set from very fast to very, very, slow. It works very well in SH4.

stork100 · 01-21-19, 04:24 PM

Further to this I would like to add that my impression has been that the values in the stock SH4 cameras.dat, a file controlling panning of views and such, tend to be a bit sensitive whereas most subsequent mega mods have slowed things down somewhat in this respect, something you might consider for the future. Though seeing as you're just trying to get things basically working I wouldn't advise any editing in this area at this time. One thing I may suggest in addition to what others have advised is to hold down ctrl whilst rotating views. This will slow the rotation and increase precision. Holding shift makes it faster, incidentally.

01-20-19, 05:37 PM	#1
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,098 Downloads: 451 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 naysayers" - Jimbuna

01-20-19, 08:43 PM	#3
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,098 Downloads: 451 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 naysayers" - Jimbuna

01-21-19, 07:32 AM	#5
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,098 Downloads: 451 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 naysayers" - Jimbuna

01-21-19, 10:49 AM	#6
Front Runner XO Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The FREE State of FLORIDA Posts: 401 Downloads: 217 Uploads: 0	You can set your Mouse Pointer speed in the Mouse Properties page in Windows 10. https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/change-...ed-windows-10/ If you have a "Customizable Mouse" such as the R.A.T. 7, they come with a configuration applet. My RAT 7 has programmable pointer speeds which I have set from very fast to very, very, slow. It works very well in SH4. __________________ "It is well war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it" - C.S.A. General Robert E. Lee "Only the dead have seen the end of war" - Plato Gone but not forgotten, RIP Dave "LeoVampire".

01-20-19, 08:35 PM	#2
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	#4
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!

01-21-19, 04:24 PM	#7
stork100 Weps Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Australia Posts: 371 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	Further to this I would like to add that my impression has been that the values in the stock SH4 cameras.dat, a file controlling panning of views and such, tend to be a bit sensitive whereas most subsequent mega mods have slowed things down somewhat in this respect, something you might consider for the future. Though seeing as you're just trying to get things basically working I wouldn't advise any editing in this area at this time. One thing I may suggest in addition to what others have advised is to hold down ctrl whilst rotating views. This will slow the rotation and increase precision. Holding shift makes it faster, incidentally.