Can anyone else see this mouse bug!?

[KeyCat 131]

Hi all,

Since upgrading to 1.46 we have noticed a nasty mouse control bug that seems to be related to the sound delay calcutation on explosions!

Sometimes in SP and MP missions the behaves very vierd and sluggish after a while! One way we can reproduce this bug on two separate machines (one Win 98 and other Win XP) is to do the following...

 1. Start the Heavy Metal SP mission

 2. Notice how your mouse behave.

 3. Jump into the tank as a gunner.

 4. Zoom in and aim on a ridge far away.

 5. Fire a few rounds.

 6. Now when trying to move the mouse it acts

    very sluggish and with a delayed action? Also if you jump

    out of the tank the problem persist. For me it sometimes

    dissapear when I move or does anything else but

    for my friend running XP it's more likely to stay bad.

Does anyone experince the same problem?

I did another test on a mission and placed a few T-80's far away. Then zoomed in on them and fired a few rounds, and if I looked closely after the smoke vanished it looked like T-80's speeded up (like x4) just for a short while and then back to normal speed!? I'm not an expert but it looks like this problem is related to the sound delay routines and for some reason it affects the mouse control.

Oyea, tried to remove all 3:rd party add-ons since we belived one of them was causing it but the problem is still there even with stock OFP 1.46 add-ons and it happen in SP as well as MP missions (have not tried to do a clean install yet but will).

Any input greatly appreciated!

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[Guest]

Nope, not that one. Two other however:

1 (Pretty serious): From 1.46 the free-look (*) doesnt work for me for vehicles.

2 (Less serious): Double mouse pointers in XP. Alt-Tabbing solves it.

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 15 2002,01:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1 (Pretty serious): From 1.46 the free-look (*) doesnt work for me for vehicles.<span id='postcolor'>

AFAIK, the free-look mode was diabled when you enter exit the car. but you can turn it on by pressing '*' again....

[Tex -USMC- 0]

if you have an optical mouse, alt-tabbing solves it

[Mister Frag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ April 15 2002,08:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ April 15 2002,01:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1 (Pretty serious): From 1.46 the free-look (*) doesnt work for me for vehicles.<span id='postcolor'>

AFAIK, the free-look mode was diabled when you enter exit the car. but you can turn it on by pressing '*' again....<span id='postcolor'>

Yes, thank god! I got tired of exiting vehicles and getting killed while I frantically try to get my character back under control.

[SKULLS_Viper 0]

I have a Wireless-optical mouse(desktop computer) and i notice when there is alot of smoke or some thing that is slowing down the game i notice the mouse pointer gets sluggish.So i just alt tab out and it fixes it.Also on my laptop i notice when starting OFP, in the main menu there is always 2 mouse pointers so i alt tab out and that fixes that, i also noticed that when using the touch pad i cant click any thing(barely).Dont have a cure for it, but i use my original mouse that came with my desktop.That keeps all my touch pad problems down.

[Major Fubar 0]

Troubleshooting?

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

Moving to troubleshooting.