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Smola - 21 Aug 2003 09:39 GMT
Hi all,

After some time I installed ZDoom 2.0.47 and played a bit. I've noticed
the same thing that annoyed me from the beginning of the port
development (in ZDoom and Legacy). The thing is the mouse freelook
movement which is totally crappy.

When I move the mouse up and left I just have the feeling sometimes it
just goes left and after a second or less it starts to go up. So it's
like, I don't know how to describe it, maybe jumpy.

This feeling is totally noticeable when you are moving. Let's say you
run and strafe an then want to look up-left. I just feel somethnig is
blocking my view. It reminds me of the keyboard flaw when you press a
second key and the first signal get's paused.

Now, I've noticed this only when playing on Windows NT/2000, never tried
it on XP, but on 95/98 all seems ok. The DirectX versions varied. I also
noticed that Quake2 has flowless mouse movement on every OS.

Maybe Randy and the Legacy team should take a look at the Quake 2
source. :)
Vassil Stoyanov - 26 Aug 2003 18:10 GMT
> Hi all,
>
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> Maybe Randy and the Legacy team should take a look at the Quake 2
> source. :)

Erm this could be a mere hardware problem...What mouse do u use? Is it
PS2,USB? That could be the root of your problem. Other than that you
should check your mouse-related software: Refresh rate,
acceleration...Hope this helps :)

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Smola - 27 Aug 2003 08:46 GMT
> > Hi all,
> >
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> should check your mouse-related software: Refresh rate,
> acceleration...Hope this helps :)

Thanks for the advice, but I don't think it's the hardware problem since
I've noticed this "feature" on several machines. Maybe it's the mouse
settings under Win 2000/NT but I really doubt it. Now, my point is that
on Win98/95 it works fine and I blame the code that is used for the
freelook feature. Of course, this doesn't make sense but hey... :)

And what I really wanted to achieve with this post is to maybe find
someone else with the same problem. Sadly I didn't. :(
 
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