Posts by William Morris70

My GPU is overheating.
Look, it’s pretty simple: either the fan on the card is dead, or maybe there isn't even a fan on this thing to begin with. Otherwise, the case is just acting like a sauna, or the whole setup is choked with dust.

William Richardson12 said:Just go grab a basic Genius mouse then. I’ve had one sitting on my desk for four years and it ran Total War perfectly... was a solid little thing 😁

I'll be there, you're starting way too early :P

Tried it... It’s a bust. All it does is mess with the camera speed, making it stutter or fly across the screen.
The only real fix I can see is just grabbing a mouse with adjustable DPI. That damn Total War runs at max speed and couldn't care less about whatever settings you've got tweaked in Windows.

Alright, I went through everything. It took me a minute because I wasn't familiar with half of this stuff, but honestly? Most of it felt pretty useless since it’s just a guide on how to tweak your mouse settings for better precision in Counter-Strike: Source.
I’m trying to figure out how to make sure my Windows mouse settings actually carry over into the game, because the game itself doesn't even offer those options in the menu. Look, I mod games all the time, and I've poked around about 80% of the folders in this game's directory—there is absolutely nothing regarding mouse sensitivity. I’m guessing it’s buried deep inside an .exe or a .dll file, and unless I want to spend the next decade translating binary code, I’m not touching that. :P

I did a little test run using Amnesia: The Dark Descent... In that game, it uses whatever settings I have in Windows, so the mouse feels great there, plus it actually has its own internal mouse sensitivity slider.
The catch is that this specific game is a different beast entirely, which makes my problem even harder to solve when you consider only about 100 people are even playing it. 😢

Jacob Wood6 said:So I've run into a massive headache with my PC,
I was having some weird issues with my internet connection, so I thought I'd try disabling my antivirus to see if that was messing with the signal.
Big mistake. Now the whole system is trashed. I can't turn the antivirus back on, and I can't install anything else—every single attempt just throws an error saying files are corrupted.
I've already tried running a system restore, hitting up CMD with sfc /scannow, and even trying a system repair, but nothing is working,
Please, I'm begging for some help here. Just please don't tell me the solution is to reinstall Windows. Seriously, I've done that so many times lately I'm practically living in a setup screen. 😢

You're gonna have to reinstall Windows xD
Honestly, this sounds like a textbook virus. If those fixes mentioned above don't work, it means some nasty malware injected its own code into basically every .exe file on your drive, rendering them useless :P But hey, maybe it isn't a virus and it's just one rogue file acting like a total jerk and locking up the whole OS. Hehe.

High DPI is actually a nightmare... The higher the setting, the faster the cursor flies across the screen. To make matters worse, I tried running CCleaner, rebooted my PC after the cleanup, and now nothing is working at all.

Seriously, I’m just hoping someone can figure this out. I’d love to adjust things, but if I move my mouse even an inch in real life, the cursor teleports to the other side of the monitor. It’s always me, isn't it? Just me dealing with these weird glitches that nobody seems to have a fix for xD
Usually, you'd just hit a button on the mouse to toggle the sensitivity up or down, but apparently, mine wasn't built with that luxury.

Alright, here’s the deal. I honestly doubt anyone on this forum is going to have the fix for this because I can't find it through Google or common sense, but hey, let's give it a shot.

THE SHORT VERSION:
My mouse sensitivity is way too high while playing, and messing with my Windows settings doesn't do squat (I'm on Windows 7). Basically, changing stuff in the Control Panel has zero impact on the game, especially since the game itself doesn't even have its own sensitivity slider.

Now for the details.

I picked up a new, cheap mouse—it's an MS Bubble, though that doesn't really matter.
The thing has a ridiculously high default DPI (that's just how sensitive the mouse is right out of the box after you plug it in and install those drivers from back in 2006).
Now, look, I'm not an idiot; I know how to lower the sensitivity in the Control Panel, so I did that, and everything works fine normally.
The problem is that when I'm actually playing Total War (shame nobody plays this anymore), specifically during a battle—not in the menus—the sensitivity automatically snaps back to that crazy default setting the moment it's plugged in. It becomes way, way too fast for a strategy game. Changing the settings in the Control Panel does absolutely nothing to the sensitivity once the game starts, and again, there are no in-game mouse settings to fix it.

So, if anyone has a clue how to fix this, I would be seriously grateful.
I'm guessing the solution might have something to do with the registry? That's the only thing I haven't tried yet because I can't find any info on Google on how to do it, and I'm not exactly a registry wizard (I mean, I get the concept, I just can't figure out where the mouse settings are buried in there).