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First post, by Undefined

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Hello!

Im having some issues with my mouse in DosBox. The mouse movement is DosBox is not the same as my PC, the mouse moves "sluggishly", it just does not feel right. It is really akward and also hard to play games like this!

What settings should i change to get mouse movement right?

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 29, by Dominus

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If your mouse is a logitech, make sure the gaming settings in SetPoint are correct or turned off.

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Reply 4 of 29, by Undefined

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Its not the sensitivity i have problem with, its the precision and mouse movement. For example it moves up and down slower than left or right. Only game that works with mouse so far is Settlers 2, when i play that game it says "PS2 Mouse Detected" and i have no problem playing that game whatsoever. But other games that require mouse movement, i just cant play them, its impossible.

Reply 5 of 29, by rfnagel

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Ive had similar problems (as mentioned in other message posts of mine here in the forums), albeit with the left/right axis.

My fix was to simply run the old CTMOUSE driver before running the problematic games in question, fixed it perfectly (feels just like when I used to run the games in native DOS) 😀

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Reply 9 of 29, by wd

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Actually it's not rude since it hopefully educates people who ask stupid questions that are as simple found as typing the keyword in google,
OR DON'T READ THE FREAKING CUTEMOUSE README.

Reply 10 of 29, by Undefined

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Well there are no stupid questions, there are only stupid people and that is me. You guys cant just EXPECT that every person that uses computer is really good at it and understands everything they are doing. I hate to ask questions in forums for this same reason: people just do not help me, they just tell me to use google, but then what is the point of forums then?

Help me or just stay quiet, thanks!

Btw here is the readme that came with CTMouse: http://www.upload.ee/files/1419902/ctmouse.txt.html

wd if you are so smart then maby you can explain to me how it works because this readme made no sense to me.

Reply 16 of 29, by keropi

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copy ctm-en.exe in your game directory and run it before your game...
the mount command just mounts a directory to use as C:\ , it is not made for running programs

-or- use this to mount your cutemouse as d:\ and run it:

[autoexec]
MOUNT D C:\CTMouse\cutemouse21b4\bin\
d:\ctm-en.exe

and mount C as your game directory or something... not a good solution but it will work

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Reply 17 of 29, by Undefined

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Yes, i got CTMouse working now but the mouse problem still exists, and i think i know why. Since my monitor is 19" some games have black borders on top and bottom or to the left. Since mouse doesn't move over the black borders it limits the mouse movement and because of it mouse moves so weird. Since Settlers II is the only game that runs on fullscreen it has perfect mouse movement. Using aspect=true fixes it playing other games but then there is a portion of the screen missing. So basically is there fix for this?

Reply 18 of 29, by Dominus

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There shouldn't be a portion of the screen missing unless you made fullresolution bigger than your monitors resolution.

And I'm not sorry for my rudeness, no need to rewrite everything again and again, even on forums, when a quick search gives the same result. People too lazy to search are most of the times those that don't read documentation as well (qed) and need to be told to use a search engine. Judging from your comments it seems you are hard to educate, though....

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Reply 19 of 29, by Xelasarg

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So basically is there fix for this?

Yes. It's called readme.txt and is located in your DOSBox directory. Honestly, all this fuss because of wrong aspect ratio!?

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