100% unplayable with the mouse lag
aaronmonto
Join Date: 2013-01-07 Member: 178052Members, Reinforced - Supporter
Join Date: 2013-01-07 Member: 178052Members, Reinforced - Supporter
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Here's the video explaining the trick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUkGDcNgm2Y
If you want to just jump into it, follow the instructions in the youtube video description. Obviously replace the Flash.exe directory with the one for NS2. Just delete the line meant to run flash.exe altogether and leave the steam window open when doing this. Run NS2 from the Steam window. The batch files have to be run with administrator privileges. This requires some basic command line knowledge, but you need some way to run the batch script to bring back explorer unfortunately. If you're not used to the command line then it's probably easier you follow the video instructions and using the custom dock program.
So i have to use a custom dock program or run cmd every time just to get the explorer and start menu back if I want to play this game on Windows 8? Ffffuuu, UWE.
Also, it didn't seem to work for me.
Edit: I found it. Didnt know that you can access the real .exe files of steam games now!
For everybody who doesnt know how it works:"Open your Explorer(Computer), direct to your steam folder, open Steamapps, open Common, get into the NS2 folder and search for "NS2.exe" There you can hit right click and create a shortcut on your desktop. Now follow the instructions of Ghostthree5 who wrote up there how it works.
Also I slightly edited last post. Running NS2 from a batch file doesn't work, so just remove the line to run Flash.exe altogether instead of replacing it. Leave the steam window open and run ns2 from there.
@Exoskelett, are you guesstimating those numbers or do you have a method to accurately measure input delay? If you have a method, I'd be interested to know about it because I'd also like to take some measurements.
I've already followed the fixes in this thread and they didn't work, so can you please tell me what I am supposed to read?
I'm using Windows 8 x64 and a GTX 570.
so in my conclusion - something happened with the update that made raw input stop working
Disabling compositing fixed the majority of the mouse lag for me, but I notice that there's still a certain amount of it below 60FPS that wasn't there before. The mouse lag is noticably higher between 30-60 FPS than it was before, even with disabling compositing. 60 and above seems to be identical to before with the fix. The game's almost as good as before now, aside from that mouse lag under 60.
It seems to be the same for me then, because while your fix (along with using DX11) helped somewhat but there's still some mouse lag that wasn't there before and isn't there in any of my other FPS games. It's detectable, although much less so, at higher framerates.
I am normally a very high skill player as I've been playing almost exclusively PC FPS shooters for the past 8 years for around 80 hours a week, so any smidge of mouse lag is just not good enough for me. Also, I played with raw input on before. The fact that you didn't may be the reason that you aren't noticing mouse lag with your fix, because it's essentially the same as it was before for you.