mouse lag threshold

[colmustard]

hey,

I have a Geforce FX 5200 with 2.66 gigs and 512 mb ram and Thief is running sluggish on all the effects turned down and on 800 600.
I was wondering if changing the mouse lag threshold from 75 to 0 would help this lag, becuase i remember it did for deus ex.
Can someone tell me a step by step process on how to do that?

How do i get to default.ini to change the mouse lag thresh?????

[Rob_the_Thief]

Hey, before you go and try to rewrite the way the game was meant to be played "out of the box" make sure you have V-Sync checked. I know that some other people say that this will slow down your FPS, but I have the same card as you with the same 512 RAM and the V-Sync being enabled for some reason made my mouse movements and my character's in-game movements in "sync". Worth a shot.

[chris20202]

Originally posted by Rob_the_Thief
Hey, before you go and try to rewrite the way the game was meant to be played "out of the box" make sure you have V-Sync checked. I know that some other people say that this will slow down your FPS, but I have the same card as you with the same 512 RAM and the V-Sync being enabled for some reason made my mouse movements and my character's in-game movements in "sync". Worth a shot.

That's a terrible idea. Vsync should be off for most people, and the mouse lag should be changed to zero.

Unless you like a laggy mouse and slow frame rates.

The game developers did a half assed job of polishing this game, and so it's up to us to do it, which is the purpose of these forums it seems.

[Rob_the_Thief]

Chris, what kind of video card do you have? I just took notice that the person who started this thread has a very similiar comp setup as me and was telling them what I did to solve the problem. So, in a sense, your telling me that what I did to fix my problem was not a good idea, when on the contrary, it was a great idea, cause it fixed my problem. Sorry, but I just have to make sure that if anyone reads this post that has a similiar comp setup as me and the post starter then they would try what I suggested, since it worked for me, not that it will work for everyone, but it's worth a shot. You can always uncheck the option.

[riggs58]

Originally posted by colmustard
How do i get to default.ini to change the mouse lag thresh?????
Open "default.ini" using notepad in the Thief "system" folder (i.e. C:\Program Files\Thief - Deadly Shadows\system). Use notepad's find feature from the edit menu to search for "mouselagthreshold" in the document. There will (2) instances of it - change them both to =0

Change

MouseLagThreshold=75

to

MouseLagThreshold=0