mouse smoothing strength and mouse accel. threshold

[legacy-Vive_le_Quebec]

I set both to max and all of a sudden it feels like I'm floating.

I only have a regular cheap Logitech mouse but I found there was like a little "stutter" when I moved from left to right. Now, it's 99% gone. But, the movements are a little peculiar man! Whooooo.

[RoadKillGrill]

i set both of those settings to 0

[legacy-DuckMySick]

I set mine both to 0 also

dont know what either do just read in one of the threads if you had a good computer to put em at 0

[Boksha]

Setting smoothing to 0 gives you optimal control. I recommend setting the acceleration to 0 as well, because it makes mousing most intuitive (move the mouse the same amount, and you will turn around the same amount as well)

[legacy-3ggSuckingLeech]

is setting smoothing to 0 equal to disabling it?

[legacy-}{3||ioN]

i would say so yes

[legacy-Mr Pepsi]

Originally posted by }{3||ioN
i would say so yes

I agree with you completely.
















I really have no idea if }{3||ioN is right.

[legacy-LagMasterSam]

I personally like to completely disable mouse acceleration. If you are using WinXP and you want to totally remove mouse acceleration you'll need to see this site.

http://www.gw2k.co.uk/Windows-Guides...ration-Fix.php

If you have never disabled WinXP mouse acceleration it can take some getting used to. However, this makes the mouse far more responsive from my experience.

[legacy-Vive_le_Quebec]

Well, how do you remove that darn stuttering then?

Does it have anything to do with my cheap Logitech mouse? I mean, if it has anything to do with the dpi or whatever it's called?

[legacy-LagMasterSam]

I haven't had any problems with stuttering before. It could be a problem with your mouse or the surface you are using your mouse on.

[legacy-3ggSuckingLeech]

I'm still wondering why Boksha said to set the smoothing to zero rather than disabling it...

[legacy-Abilio_KID]

Mouse smoothing strength is the amount of smoothness you wish to apply to the mouse if it is enabled ingame. If using a MX510, with my experience, this setting is useless.

Mouse acceleration threshold works like this: lets assume you have no mouse acceleration at all in Windows so it won't influence the acceleration in this setting. A setting of 0 means no acceleration but full speed. You move your mouse and the crosshair moves according to your movement. Just like Boksha said. A setting of 50% means your mouse will only get to full speed after 50% of the mouse unit has been travelled. It basically means if you move slowly then the crosshair will have no acceleration but if you move that % a bit faster then the mouse will use full speed.

Try for example 100% of mouse treshold. Move the mouse naturally but a bit slow then suddenly move it a bit faster. You'll notice the mouse will move at a faster rate.
This setting is usefull for people who like to aim with a lot of precision, specially at distant enemies. This way they can suddenly turn around if they need to. However t feels weird as you already noticed. So most people prefer to use Windows mouse acceleration because it has a better curve.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Boksha]

Originally posted by 3ggSuckingLeech
I'm still wondering why Boksha said to set the smoothing to zero rather than disabling it...

The last time I ever saw the mouse smoothing in the menus was back when the game was released. I immediatly turned everything to off back then.

Originally posted by LagMasterSam
I personally like to completely disable mouse acceleration. If you are using WinXP and you want to totally remove mouse acceleration you'll need to see this site.

http://www.gw2k.co.uk/Windows-Guides...ration-Fix.php

If you have never disabled WinXP mouse acceleration it can take some getting used to. However, this makes the mouse far more responsive from my experience.

I've always wondered about this fix. First off, in UT2k4 it's completely unnecessary; if you're using the default mouse drivers, UT2k4 always disables the WinXP mouse acceleration regardless. (try it; your WinXP mouse settings don't influence the movement of the mouse in-game at all, also you end up with the exact same cm/360 turn, independant of the speed you move your mouse at)
Second off you don't need a registry file to disable acceleration. Just go into the Control Panel, click Mouse, go to the Pointer Options tab and turn off Enhance Pointer Precision. This completely disables WinXP's mouse acceleration. (I've confirmed this both by measuring the distance I have to move my mouse to go from the left to the right on the desktop, and inside of the Serious Sam 2 demo, which uses your WinXP settings in-game)
All in all I have no idea what that page is talking about when it says "It seems that even without pointer precision disabled, the mouse under XP is still influenced by an acceleration curve". As far as I can tell: not true.

[legacy-LagMasterSam]

It definitely affects in game mouse acceleration, at least it does on my computer. When I formatted and reinstalled my computer the last time, I forgot that I had disabled WinXP mouse acceleration before the format. As soon as I started up a match in instant action I could feel the acceleration.

Also, disabling pointer precision does not disable WinXP mouse acceleration on my computer. I tried doing that before fixing the registry and there was still noticeable in-game mouse acceleration.

I guess results vary from computer to computer though

[legacy-WosP]

Set accel to 0 and smoothing high if you have a bad mouse , but there is no use for accel realy .

I got accel and smoothing both turned off , no need for them and I like it without them .