First post, by Mr_Blastman
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Something that I've accepted as "it just is" for some while came back to the forefront last night. I've been playing through the Monkey Island series in dosbox and one of the most annoying things with the first game is that if I try to make fine, slow movements with the mouse--the cursor never moves, it stays stuck in place. Only after moving the mouse faster does it finally "unstick" and start moving.
As you can imagine, this is very annoying when trying to click on a couple of pixels on the screen.
So I installed ScummVM--the problems went away, completely. Everything is super smooth and perfect. So that got me wondering... Dosbox has to do mouse movement better, I must be missing something, right? There are a lot of other programs that I have to use Dosbox for so I'm curious as to what it might be.
FYI I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and it is worth mentioning that on a pure dos machine with a different mouse I notice something similar (not using Dosbox at all), so maybe it isn't dosbox? I hardly ever used a mouse with DOS years ago when that was all I had--I mean, who did? Keyboard ruled everything plus joystick.
I also run Dosbox in fullscreen mode as well.
Anyone else find this as odd or have any ideas? Or maybe I'm just being picky.
