NoOne on 29/9/2005 at 18:07
sp2 might be it.
although i remember looking for port-opening hack for opening com1 for homemade ir-device and custom software. and that before sp2. maybe they decided to ask in sp2 :p
ToxicFrog on 29/9/2005 at 19:10
Now I'm wondering why SS1 is talking to the serial ports at all. I mean, did they build a serial mouse driver into the game?
Enchantermon on 29/9/2005 at 19:20
Quote Posted by ToxicFrog
Now I'm wondering why SS1 is talking to the serial ports at all.
I was wondering that myself. It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me.
On a slightly unrelated topic.....
I have to use MOUSE2KV with SS1 in 640x480 becuase the mouse is too slow in that resolution. But now I can't alt-tab out of the game (and I usually need to several times) because if I do so and try going back in, it shows the MOUSE2KV DOS dialogue and won't return to SS1! Is there a way around this?
Not to mention it likes to crash sometimes if my mouse goes off the bottom of the screen.....
Enchantermon
ToxicFrog on 29/9/2005 at 19:35
I wish mine were that robust! If I alt-tab, then when I switch back to SS1 my video card dies (!!) and I have to reboot.
WRT the mouse, it's been my experience that it's not a problem if the mouse goes offscreen, but if you try doing anything with it offscreen - in particular, if you're in the main menu or the map (which are both 320x200, IIRC) and the mouse is offscreen when you return to the game, it'll crash.
It's not a problem in main game, of course, because mouse2kv won't let it leave the screen...
Enchantermon on 29/9/2005 at 19:38
Quote Posted by ToxicFrog
I wish mine were that robust! If I alt-tab, then when I switch back to SS1 my video card dies (!!) and I have to reboot.
:wot: Yikes. :erg:
Quote Posted by ToxicFrog
It's not a problem in main game, of course, because mouse2kv won't let it leave the screen...
Um.....actually, it will leave the bottom of the screen in the main game. That's what happened both times. It went off the bottom and promptly crashed.
Enchantermon
ToxicFrog on 29/9/2005 at 19:40
Then you aren't using mouse2kv right. :p It's MOUSE2KV (screen X bound) (screen Y bound) (X mouse speed multiplier) (Y mouse speed multiplier) (command).
Thus, if you invoke it as MOUSE2KV 640 480 ..., and you're running SS1 in 640x480, the mouse can't leave the screen. You're sure you have it set to 640x480 and 640x400?
Enchantermon on 29/9/2005 at 20:02
I don't have it set to 640x400.....
This is the line in cdshock.bat:
C:\SSHOCK\MOUSE2KV.EXE 640 480 8 8 CDSHOCK.exe
Is that not right?
Enchantermon
NHJ BV on 29/9/2005 at 21:09
I changed it to 1280 1024 10 10
(10 10 because I hoped it would speed my mouse up. It didn't (as far as I could tell)).
Is there any way I can get MOUSE2KV to significantly speed up my mouse? Should I make it 20 20 or something?
ToxicFrog on 29/9/2005 at 21:24
@Enchantermon:
That is correct, and at that setting it shouldn't be possible for the mouse to leave the screen while running at 640x480 - only in the map and main menu.
@NHJ BV:
I use it with 8 7, and I find that gives me a useful mouse speed in 640x480 and 800x600; I haven't spent long in 1024x768 or 1280x1024, but it's noticeably faster in those resolutions with mouse2kv than without.
All I can suggest is to keep increasing those values until you see some change.
Enchantermon on 30/9/2005 at 01:37
Quote Posted by ToxicFrog
@Enchantermon:
That is correct, and at that setting it shouldn't be possible for the mouse to leave the screen while running at 640x480 - only in the map and main menu.
That's what I thought. Which is odd, because it definitely will go off of the bottom of the screen. It won't go off the sides or the top though, just the bottom.
Enchantermon
