Any way to make controls less terrible?

[Suh ruh]

I really want to play this game, but every time I come back I quit after a few minutes because I'll get in a shoot out and die because the mouse is super sensitive vertically and not horizontally. Also, going backwards just makes you turn around and shoot straight up so i can't defend myself trying to get into cover.

I tried looking for mods to fix this but turned up empty.

[Joe Biden]

The controls aren't terrible, they have a few quirks such as the space button being sprint and shift being jump by default and that flying is defaulted to the numberpad which a few people don't have one on their keyboard anymore. The games sensitivity slider only changes horizontal sensitivity but not vertical, you can fix this by downgrading the game and installing SilentPatch.

What do you mean by going backwards and that it makes you shoot straight up? Never experienced this issue. Do you have frame-limiter disabled? If so, this causes issues with the games physics, cutscenes, aiming and other things so I recommend turning it on. It sadly caps the frame-rate at 26 FPS in the Steam version and if you want 30 FPS either downgrade the game and install SilentPatch or disable the frame-limiter and cap the game externally to 30 FPS using Rivatuner Statistics Server & MSI Afterburner or adjust it in your NVIDIA / AMD graphics control panel.

EDIT: Forgot to add that the controls are inverted for Caesar Vialpando, Life's a beach and mini-games that involve similar button prompts such as dates with girlfriends.

EDIT2: Controllers don't have their correct button prompts enabled because at the time there wasn't a way to connect a PS2 or Xbox controller to a PC. You can download GInput to enable full controller support, but you need to downgrade the game first.

[9oaD]

controls are terrible for this game. nothing you can do about it. it is made bad on purpose because they dont care. they make a good game and then before releasing it to the public they make sure its bad.

with the controller i have noticed there is a button for "next target/weapon" this switches your weapon and your target. but as careful as i am the game will switch weapons when it should switch targets. then i get murdered from full armor and health to dead. then u have no weapons.

this game sucks and its embarrassing to think back to how younger me in the past tricked myself into enjoying this piece of junk game. its a nightmare.

[Joe Biden]

Originally posted by o0oOo0o:

controls are terrible for this game. nothing you can do about it. it is made bad on purpose because they dont care. they make a good game and then before releasing it to the public they make sure its bad.

with the controller i have noticed there is a button for "next target/weapon" this switches your weapon and your target. but as careful as i am the game will switch weapons when it should switch targets. then i get murdered from full armor and health to dead. then u have no weapons.

this game sucks and its embarrassing to think back to how younger me in the past tricked myself into enjoying this piece of junk game. its a nightmare.

The game itself isn't a piece of junk, the controls may be, the PC version when it was released had controller support for very specific game controllers since the PS3 or Xbox 360 weren't released yet and you couldn't connect a PS2 or Xbox controller.

I wouldn't say it was made bad on purpose, they were on a time constraint and made a bad port from the PS2 version and then started working on a new game and the game already sold enough copies so they didn't need to update it further.

It would be greatly appreciated if Rockstar could atleast hire moderators for this forum so that "How to install mods" threads stop being made constantly and similar. I'd love to work on fixing this game if Rockstar ever hired me, a few of my friends included.

If you still consider this game terrible, that's fine, it's your opinion. But if you think a game is terrible just because the controls are terrible and can be fixed with a mod or two.

[B Dawg]

Controls terrible? I got the solution for you!
Go to Options > Controls and rebind them to your liking!

[Joe Biden]

Originally posted by B Dawg:

Controls terrible? I got the solution for you!
Go to Options > Controls and rebind them to your liking!

That works too.

[Suh ruh]

Originally posted by B Dawg:

Controls terrible? I got the solution for you!
Go to Options > Controls and rebind them to your liking!

You could also read my post and see I'm looking to fix vertical mouse sensitivity.

[JaxMacFL]

I use a combo of Logitech extreme 3d pro fs and g510 kb. Flight stick for most flying and all driving and the kb has 18 programmable buttons on the left hand side, six rows of three for binding. Very pleased.

[Joe Biden]

Originally posted by JaxMacFL:

I use a combo of Logitech extreme 3d pro fs and g510 kb. Flight stick for most flying and all driving and the kb has 18 programmable buttons on the left hand side, six rows of three for binding. Very pleased.

Enthusiast I see.

[JaxMacFL]

Originally posted by $teamedRevenge:

Originally posted by JaxMacFL:

I use a combo of Logitech extreme 3d pro fs and g510 kb. Flight stick for most flying and all driving and the kb has 18 programmable buttons on the left hand side, six rows of three for binding. Very pleased.

Enthusiast I see.

Maybe, but mostly just lazy, lol.

[HalfOfAKebab]

Originally posted by Suh ruh:

Originally posted by B Dawg:

Controls terrible? I got the solution for you!
Go to Options > Controls and rebind them to your liking!

You could also read my post and see I'm looking to fix vertical mouse sensitivity.

The sensitivity setting in-game only affects the horizontal sensitivity. This is a bug that affects every version of the game. It's there because this game was built off of Vice City, and VC had individual sliders for vertical and horizontal sensitivity - Rockstar removed the vertical slider but forgot to combine its effect into the other slider.

You have two options:
1. Play on the default sensitivity (which matches the sensitivities) and change your mouse's DPI or the Windows mouse sensitivity.
2. Downgrade to v1.00 US and install SilentPatch, a mod that fixes many issues in this game.

[Joe Biden]

Originally posted by HalfOfAKebab:

Originally posted by Suh ruh:

You could also read my post and see I'm looking to fix vertical mouse sensitivity.

The sensitivity setting in-game only affects the horizontal sensitivity. This is a bug that affects every version of the game. It's there because this game was built off of Vice City, and VC had individual sliders for vertical and horizontal sensitivity - Rockstar removed the vertical slider but forgot to combine its effect into the other slider.

You have two options:
1. Play on the default sensitivity (which matches the sensitivities) and change your mouse's DPI or the Windows mouse sensitivity.
2. Downgrade to v1.00 US and install SilentPatch, a mod that fixes many issues in this game.

So Rockstar didn't make the game from scratch and most of the game's code is from Vice City? Is that why Vigilante and Taxi collection after a mission fail among othe things from Vice City are still in the game's code but are unused?

[HalfOfAKebab]

Originally posted by $teamedRevenge:

Originally posted by HalfOfAKebab:

The sensitivity setting in-game only affects the horizontal sensitivity. This is a bug that affects every version of the game. It's there because this game was built off of Vice City, and VC had individual sliders for vertical and horizontal sensitivity - Rockstar removed the vertical slider but forgot to combine its effect into the other slider.

You have two options:
1. Play on the default sensitivity (which matches the sensitivities) and change your mouse's DPI or the Windows mouse sensitivity.
2. Downgrade to v1.00 US and install SilentPatch, a mod that fixes many issues in this game.

So Rockstar didn't make the game from scratch and most of the game's code is from Vice City? Is that why Vigilante and Taxi collection after a mission fail among othe things from Vice City are still in the game's code but are unused?

Yes, and probably yes.

[Devang]

Also, going backwards just makes you turn around and shoot straight up so i can't defend myself trying to get into cover.

This happens with any one handed weapon. These are the ones that are dual wielded at Hitman difficulty i.e. Pistol, Tec 9, Micro Uzi and Sawn-off Shotgun. I'd suggest to swap them out for better alternatives: Pistol -> Desert Eagle, Machine Pistols -> MP5 and Sawn-off Shotgun -> Pump Action Shotgun (or Spas 12, if in Las Venturas). These guns are two handed, so you'll turn back properly while trying to get to cover.

You can use this map to locate weapons - http://www.gta.cz/data/eng-sanandreas/clanky/zbrane/mapa_zbrani_eng_deluxe.jpg

[Suh ruh]

Originally posted by HalfOfAKebab:

Originally posted by Suh ruh:

You could also read my post and see I'm looking to fix vertical mouse sensitivity.

The sensitivity setting in-game only affects the horizontal sensitivity. This is a bug that affects every version of the game. It's there because this game was built off of Vice City, and VC had individual sliders for vertical and horizontal sensitivity - Rockstar removed the vertical slider but forgot to combine its effect into the other slider.

You have two options:
1. Play on the default sensitivity (which matches the sensitivities) and change your mouse's DPI or the Windows mouse sensitivity.
2. Downgrade to v1.00 US and install SilentPatch, a mod that fixes many issues in this game.

Downgraded and installed Silentpatch, among other things and it worked, thanks.