mouse movement

[Venair]

My mouse movement in PS is very bad. It constantly overshoots where I want it to go, and movement in a straight line is very difficult.

This does not happen for other X games, and does not happen under Windows XP on the same computer.
I have tried adjusting the Horz/VertSensitivity with no change. I also thought it might be load related, so I reduced the graphics settings. Still nothing.

[sardit]

lower the sensitivity and resolution, don't use it on heavy maps. eg, wait for the screen to load propperly before moving. If there is a lot of graphic stuff in the background it gets bugged up. Try setting adaptive camera, that will help with mouse look a lot aswell.

[Myrthe]

i hope you already know to do this before you start PS but here goes:

press CTRL+ALT+DELETE

then go to processes tab

then sort everything by user (the different users are "SYSTEM", your name, etc.)

delete everything that you know about thats not running (never delete explorer because its deletes your dektop) and everything you dont know about

if you delete anything and something goes wrong you can always just start it back up again by creating new process

hope that helps

[Induane]

Ermmmm that would be for windows.. this is the linux forum... and he is using X so he is definately on linux.

One thing you can do for performance though is to exit your windowmanager, and everything else clear to a command prompt

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop   <---ubuntu example

this dumps you to command line.  Log in, then run planeshift by cding into the directory
cd /opt/planeshift
then goahead and run JUST X and PlaneShift

xinit psclient


doing this you can really strip linux down MUCH further than windows and really be running ONLY the bare necessities.

P.S. on windows you CAN close the explorer process.  sure your desktop disappears but then you can use ctrl-alt-del to start programs using the "new task" button.  Start planeshift from there, or use it to restart explorer and restore your desktop when yuo are done.