Smoothing out Mouse in Quake III

[Daedra]

Qauke III is running great but my mouse stutters ever so slightly when i turn, its not that big of a problem but i have my mouse Sensativity almost max and i have mouse smooth on, i have my mouse "resolution" and "samplerate" set to "200" in my XF86Config file, is there any thing else i can do to smooth it out

thanks http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[demetrius]

Its because dga mouse handling is broken in the released version of XF86 4.0.1. The fix is to download and install the latest build of 4.0.1 from the cvs source ... or wait for 4.0.2. Mouse sensitivity is a function of dga as well, so with your current version of X the best way to speed up mouse movement is to adjust the m_pitch and m_yaw variables either in the console or directly in yorur q3config.cfg which should be in ~/.q3a/baseq3.

[Daedra]

Cool, just out curiosity when is 4.0.2 scheduled to be released, if there is a realease date http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[demetrius]

Not sure, but the cvs source isn't too much of a pain if you've got a broadband connection and time to kill. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif
I ended up just letting it go overnight. I think it ended up being over 200MB worth of source files. Once you've got it it's fairly easy to install though. I just let it install right over my current install of 4.0.1 and it worked fine. There's instructions at www.linuxquake.com (http://www.linuxquake.com) on both how to download and how to install the files.
Once you've got it installed you can adjust the mouse sensitivity in Q3 with the GUI slider in the setup menu or directly from the console or in your config with the seta sensitivity "x" command. Your mouse movement should be smoother and (this part may just be in my head http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif) the r_gamma command seems to work better as everything seems a bit brighter.

[This message has been edited by demetrius (edited 26 October 2000).]