Saturday, October 23, 2010

FIX: Mouse Lag/Acceleration in Fallout New Vegas

First of all I have to apologize, my PC broke down on me so I had to play "Fresh Installation Of Windows 7 And Afterwards Installing All Important Programs Anew". FIOW7AAIAIPA is truly a great game, easy a 10/10.
So that's the reason why there was no update yesterday.
And since I lost my few-hours-into-the-game Fallout New Vegas character I have only time for a small update because I HAVE to play that game, it is just that good.
The hint is a fix for a very annoying bug in F:NV regarding the mouse acceleration: the mouse actually lags. Some may have experienced it, some may not, I have. And it really was a pain in the ass. 
BUT! 
there is an easy way to fix this, all you have to do is to add 
fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0
fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0
fForegroundMouseBase=0
fForegroundMouseMult=0
at a certain point in two .ini-files. The first file is located in the F:NV-folder and it's called Fallout_default.ini. You have to search for the [Controls] part in the .ini and then just copy-paste the above lines at the end of that block.
The second .ini you have to change is located in your My Games directory. Somewhere like C:\Users\<your name\Documents\My Games\FalloutNV. This one is just called Fallout.ini. Make sure that the file isn't write-only, search again for the [Controls] part in the file and add the lines.
Congratulations, you are now mouse-lag-free. 

24 comments:

  1. FIOW7AAIAIPA is indeed a great game and I am glad to see that you were willing to look past the things so many have criticized about it in the past to understand what a true gem of an experience it truly is.

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  2. good to know, if i ever play this one
    thanks

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  3. Ah, it was a big reason for me not to quit the game. Might try it out at a friend and rebuy the game. Thanks!

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  4. Thank you very much! now I know how to solve the problem.

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  5. See, I just played FIOW7AAIAIPA last week, and I thought it was pretty mediocre. Not a fan

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  6. Sorry to hear that your computer dun goofed, but I'm jealously glad to hear that you're back on F:NV. Get a review up soon!

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  7. I just started to play this last night. Seems decent so far.

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  8. cool thanks for the hack, i hate lag

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  9. wow, glad to know someone knows their stuff :D

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  10. I don't really know that the problem is with mouse accerlation... I never had any myself

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  11. I didn't have any mouse lag when I was playing but that might be because I don't have a fancy mouse or anything.

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  12. I'll buy it for the 360, but first I need to finish Fallout 3!

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  13. Arrrrgh I hate it when stuff like that happens. -_-

    I might avoid the game now. :(

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  14. good to know, if i ever play this one
    thanks

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