First post, by Kerr Avon
Like many people, when I play a first or third person view game, I always use the invert Y-axis option (so when you move the mouse forward then the view goes down,
and when you pull the mouse back then the view goes up), something that I became used to during the Atari ST days, as so many of it's games operated that way by
default.
The problem is that some Windows games, especially those made by a lone programmer, or made using the Unity engine, don't have an invert Y-axis option, so I am
looking for a solution to this problem, and have tried a few programs that allow me to invert the Y-axis manually. This one seems good (and doesn't involve multiple
programs or messing with the mouse driver, etc) is Mouse Inverter, available from:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/zjuwfv
(it's a clean file, linked from https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Invert_Y-axis ) which opens a Windows box, with a tick box that allows you
to invert the mouse's Y-axis, and when you tick it then the mouse's Y-axis is inverted, which is great. Untick it and the mouse goes back to normal. There
is also a tick box to invert the X-Axis, and this too works fine - I'm not sure why anyone would want to invert the X-axis, but each to his own.
The thing is, the program also sets up two hot key combinations, so you can toggle the mouse' axis when you can't get to the Windows box (such as when
you're playing a game, etc) - it let's you press [Windows Key] + [ALT] + [Y] to invert/un-invert the Y-axis, and also you can press [Windows Key] + [ALT] + [X]
to invert/un-invert the X-axis.
The problem is that under Windows 10, or at least the Windows 10 version on my desktop (which I imagine is the latest version, updates are not turned off),
pressing [Windows Key] + [ALT] + [Y] to invert/un-invert the Y-axis does nothing (but pressing [Windows Key] + [ALT] + [X] to invert the X-axis, does work, just to
annoy me 😮( )
I'd imagine that this is a Windows problem rather than a problem with the program itself, since the X-axis hot key shortcut works. Is Windows somehow intercepting the
[Windows Key] + [ALT] + [Y] combination and not passing it to the Mouse Inverter program, and if so is there a way I can fix this, please? Or any other fix
that I can attempt, maybe?
Thanks for any answers.