Posted June 29, 2011
I was struggling to find a way to eliminate mouse acceleration that I was getting in UT99 in Windows 7. Tried the MarkC Mouse Fix. Surely will be useful for other games, but UT was enabling "enhance pointer precision" whenever the the mouse was aiming (ie, not in gui mouse pointer mode). There seemed no hope of getting 1:1 mouse movement within the game. I'd changed .ini file settings dealing with the mouse. Tried it with and without "direct input". But the MarkC MouseMovementRrecorder showed that acceleration was being enabled no matter what.
Finally, I tried the other shortcut on my desktop. Ya, I'd made a shortcut linking directly to the UnrealTournament.exe file. Figured eliminating extra stuff like some wrapper file would be the way for optimal tweaking of the game. I was wrong. But, I had no idea what the point of it was, after all, the game ran fine in all other ways, what was the need for a compatibility wrapper?) This is a well patched Epic Games game that ran on Windows NT after all, not some buggy EA games [expletive].
The shortcut installed by the GOG installer just so happened to prevent the game from turning on EPP when the mouse was aiming, as proven by the MarkC MouseMovementRecorder file that I had running next to the game in windowed mode.
Thank you for this GOG. I don't know if it's perfect 1:1 with the GOGWrap but without the mouse fix, but even if it isn't, I know it's MUCH closer to it. And with the mouse fix I'm betting it's a perfect 1:1. You rock. The GOGWrap file itself is worth what you charge for the game. Quite the deal.
PS, The mouse fix involves registry changes. Using it is at your own risk. Read instructions carefully. Backup your registry file before use. If you don't know how much a registry problem can mess with your computer, don't run the fix!
Finally, I tried the other shortcut on my desktop. Ya, I'd made a shortcut linking directly to the UnrealTournament.exe file. Figured eliminating extra stuff like some wrapper file would be the way for optimal tweaking of the game. I was wrong. But, I had no idea what the point of it was, after all, the game ran fine in all other ways, what was the need for a compatibility wrapper?) This is a well patched Epic Games game that ran on Windows NT after all, not some buggy EA games [expletive].
The shortcut installed by the GOG installer just so happened to prevent the game from turning on EPP when the mouse was aiming, as proven by the MarkC MouseMovementRecorder file that I had running next to the game in windowed mode.
Thank you for this GOG. I don't know if it's perfect 1:1 with the GOGWrap but without the mouse fix, but even if it isn't, I know it's MUCH closer to it. And with the mouse fix I'm betting it's a perfect 1:1. You rock. The GOGWrap file itself is worth what you charge for the game. Quite the deal.
PS, The mouse fix involves registry changes. Using it is at your own risk. Read instructions carefully. Backup your registry file before use. If you don't know how much a registry problem can mess with your computer, don't run the fix!
Post edited June 29, 2011 by Penfold