Doom3 and Quake3 mouse issues

Gezzy · Post by **Gezzy** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:04 pm

Hi, im pretty new to the whole linux and wine thing

I know the is a linux native doom3 client but I cant seem to get any sound from it
so I installed it with wine. It starts up normal and all, but when I enter the game
I cant seem to turn all the way around. Its like the mouse pointer is stuck in
some sort of window and cant get out

Just for kicks I tried quake3 with wine and the same thing happens.
I usually run q3 natively without problems.

Hard for me to explain and I hope you understand and can help me

Dean Hamstead · Post by **Dean Hamstead** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:10 pm

sounds like the pesky mouse bug that is afflicting so many games right now.

to get doom3 working native you may need to replace the asound or libsdl
libraries with sym links to your 32bit system versions

i have had no problems running native doom3 (32bit) on my debian amd64.

quake3 works perfectly, especially if you compile from source. nice pure
64bit binary etc.

Dean

Gezzy wrote:

Hi, im pretty new to the whole linux and wine thing

I know the is a linux native doom3 client but I cant seem to get any sound from it
so I installed it with wine. It starts up normal and all, but when I enter the game
I cant seem to turn all the way around. Its like the mouse pointer is stuck in
some sort of window and cant get out

Just for kicks I tried quake3 with wine and the same thing happens.
I usually run q3 natively without problems.

Hard for me to explain and I hope you understand and can help me

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:28 pm

Gezzy wrote:I know the is a linux native doom3 client but I cant seem to get any sound from it
so I installed it with wine. It starts up normal and all, but when I enter the game
I cant seem to turn all the way around. Its like the mouse pointer is stuck in
some sort of window and cant get out

Set [HKCU\Software\Wine\DirectInput\MouseWarpOverride] to "force". See http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys for more info.

Gezzy · Post by **Gezzy** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:02 pm

Thank you vitamin, that worked!

But now there is another mouse problem.
The mouse sensitivity/acceleration seems to be inconsistant.
At one time the sens is pretty good, all of a sudden its very slow.

Its playable, but quick aiming is hard

Any thoughts?

thanks in advance!

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:11 pm

Gezzy wrote:Thank you vitamin, that worked!
But now there is another mouse problem.
The mouse sensitivity/acceleration seems to be inconsistant.
At one time the sens is pretty good, all of a sudden its very slow.

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xset m 1

Gezzy · Post by **Gezzy** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:25 pm

After i did xset m 1 it seems to be a little better...
but still does it. thanks for the input though:) what does this command do?

Any other ideas?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:09 pm

Gezzy wrote:After i did xset m 1 it seems to be a little better...
but still does it. thanks for the input though:) what does this command do?

Set mouse acceleration multiplier to 1 (ie no acceleration at all).

Gezzy wrote:Any other ideas?

Use native Linux versions of those games.

Gezzy · Post by **Gezzy** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:00 pm

I would if I could get the damn sound to work :Þ

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:48 pm

Gezzy wrote:I would if I could get the damn sound to work :Þ

You should ask about that on your distro forum. Wine is the lasts ditch resort and almost NEVER an option if there is a native Linux version available.