Who designed the !@#$ing cursor control of SEV?

Arkcon · #1 March 22nd, 2007, 08:40 PM

geoschmo said:
I had serious problems with the mouse lagging and jerking when I started playing. Turning down the graphics settings definetly helped.

Specifically which settings? I have to use safe mode with my old fashioned graphics card. I'm currently at medium background detail, and high graphic detail -- I could probably stand to lower those. I'm at 1024x768x32 resolution, should I reduce colors or would that make the game work harder and be worse?

I don't have a very jerky cursor, but it is a little unpredictable when I'm clicking. I gotta admit, this really makes me want to just put SE5 away until I get a newer, more state of the art, computer.

geoschmo · #2 March 22nd, 2007, 09:07 PM

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Arkcon said:
geoschmo said:
I had serious problems with the mouse lagging and jerking when I started playing. Turning down the graphics settings definetly helped.

Specifically which settings? I have to use safe mode with my old fashioned graphics card. I'm currently at medium background detail, and high graphic detail -- I could probably stand to lower those. I'm at 1024x768x32 resolution, should I reduce colors or would that make the game work harder and be worse?

To be honest I didn't do a lot of careful testing. I pretty much nerfed all the settings and it got better. It's still not perfect. The mouse has a little bit of lag, but it's playable. I'm working on a lap top though without a fancy video card so I'm kind of happy just that it works.

Geoschmo

Azselendor · #3 March 23rd, 2007, 01:05 AM

Has any run SE5 under vista?

Captain Kwok · #4 March 23rd, 2007, 10:17 AM

I know there was an issue with SE:V using a DLL that wasn't included with Vista, but that was corrected in one of the post v1.25 versions.

gregebowman · #5 March 23rd, 2007, 02:30 PM

Ok, thanks for the input. I was able to put the graphics in safe mode, and my cursor and occassional graphics glitches cleared up. Thanks. It would have been nice if this was pointed out in teh documentation (maybe it was, but to tell the truth, I haven't really read the booklet all the way through yet). At least now I'm not trying to pull my hair out with frustration.