Mouse controls feel very jittery / choppy

[Nipukka]

This is an issue report and a general PSA for anyone on the fence about this game.

This topic is only about the mouse controls. I own a controller but I do not want to use it with an FPS title.

The mouse controls are really bad. Looking around and aiming feels very.. fuzzy. This is a very bad thing for a title played entirely in first-person perspective. While I doubt that high precision aiming would be required for this game, just looking around with the mouse feels bad.

The slower you move your mouse, the worse it gets. The way I tested for jittering was to smoothly and slowly move my mouse in any one direction in-game. The game's camera got very shaky at that point. It is like the game has preset "slots" for the camera to get stuck into before moving into the next slot over and over again instead of smoothly gliding along. That is the best way for me to describe how it feels.

I had no problems with framerate aside from slight stuttering, especially in cutscenes but it did not bother me. The game was hovering around 100fps on a 144hz monitor with uncapped framerate and v-sync turned off (GTX 1080, R5 3600, 32gb RAM @3000MHz and installed on SSD).

I also launched a different FPS title to test out the camera in it and I got no jitters when slowly dragging my mouse in-game. So this isn't a problem with my mouse.

I tried the various fixes people have posted such as:
- Disabling mouse smoothing in engine.ini
- Putting both of the acceleration and deceleration to 100
- V sync off or on, framerate locked or capped
- Messing with mouse polling rate

But it was to no avail. I'll wait around a week to see if there's a patch that might address this issue, otherwise I will unfortunately need to request a refund on this.

[LorKh4]

I think that's an issue with how the game read the mouse input, the only solution for now is turn the in-game sensitivity all the way down and raise it with your mouse brand software or the one on windows.

[iLLmEcHaNiCo]

I got mine to smooth out. I DON'T like the fix. Hopefully they patch it. Apparently, the camera sensitivity is for both controller AND mouse in the controls settings.

Set the in-game x and y sensitivity to 1. Yes. 1. Then use your mouse software and set your DPI to something insane like 1600 or higher.

This fixed the mouse micro stutters (like your moving your cursor over a grid). Mouse is just as smooth as the controller now. HOWEVER, you are now stuck with said DPI in the menus, which sucks less then a stuttery in game mouse. Hope this helps and hope they do something about this.

Also, I would have no problems playing this game with controller, but the controller feels so strange no matter what sensitivity settings I use. It's all sluggish and stiff. Man, I waited so long for this game to. Trying to tough it out, but the input issues are driving me mad.

[Nipukka]

Originally posted by iLLmEcHaNiCo:

I got mine to smooth out. I DON'T like the fix. Hopefully they patch it. Apparently, the camera sensitivity is for both controller AND mouse in the controls settings.

Set the in-game x and y sensitivity to 1. Yes. 1. Then use your mouse software and set your DPI to something insane like 1600 or higher.

This fixed the mouse micro stutters (like your moving your cursor over a grid). Mouse is just as smooth as the controller now. HOWEVER, you are now stuck with said DPI in the menus, which sucks less then a stuttery in game mouse. Hope this helps and hope they do something about this.

Also, I would have no problems playing this game with controller, but the controller feels so strange no matter what sensitivity settings I use. It's all sluggish and stiff. Man, I waited so long for this game to. Trying to tough it out, but the input issues are driving me mad.

I see. I'll give that a try. An inconvenience for sure but my mouse thankfully has dedicated DPI buttons so I can just switch between DPI on the fly. Still not happy that this kind of a workaround is necessary. I rarely buy games on release precisely because of these kinds of issues. I'll keep my playtime under the refund threshold in any case for now.

[Cryptics]

I kept the settings at default and lowered my dpi to 800.

[MothMan]

Have the same issue, had to stop playing because it's making me motion sick...

[King of Games]

Well dont worry about using a gamepad OP it's just as ba dif not worse. I dont know how they managed to ♥♥♥♥ up the camera controls this bad

[Rizz]

OP, you mentioned adding the mouse settings to Engine.ini, just to clarify, you put the correct codes to turn off mouse smoothing in Input.ini instead, right? assuming you did and you just typed the wrong file name in your post by accident.

You also don't want acceleration set to 100 like you mentioned in your post, you want it set to 1, then deceleration set to 100.

[marckb]

Originally posted by Nipukka:

The mouse controls are really bad. Looking around and aiming feels very.. fuzzy.
I had no problems with framerate .... The game was hovering around 100fps on a 144hz .

Did you try turning off motion blur? Cinematic level motion blur can make the game unplayable. Feels like wearing a bowl of jello on your head. Also, I would suggest no acceleration, highest polling, low sensitivity.

My problem with the game is the gliding controls. They are so sensitive that the slightest mouse movement can send me wildly off course. I can't find a way to affect just that.

[TS2]

Originally posted by Nipukka:

This is an issue report and a general PSA for anyone on the fence about this game.

This topic is only about the mouse controls. I own a controller but I do not want to use it with an FPS title.

The mouse controls are really bad. Looking around and aiming feels very.. fuzzy. This is a very bad thing for a title played entirely in first-person perspective. While I doubt that high precision aiming would be required for this game, just looking around with the mouse feels bad.

The slower you move your mouse, the worse it gets. The way I tested for jittering was to smoothly and slowly move my mouse in any one direction in-game. The game's camera got very shaky at that point. It is like the game has preset "slots" for the camera to get stuck into before moving into the next slot over and over again instead of smoothly gliding along. That is the best way for me to describe how it feels.

I had no problems with framerate aside from slight stuttering, especially in cutscenes but it did not bother me. The game was hovering around 100fps on a 144hz monitor with uncapped framerate and v-sync turned off (GTX 1080, R5 3600, 32gb RAM @3000MHz and installed on SSD).

I also launched a different FPS title to test out the camera in it and I got no jitters when slowly dragging my mouse in-game. So this isn't a problem with my mouse.

I tried the various fixes people have posted such as:
- Disabling mouse smoothing in engine.ini
- Putting both of the acceleration and deceleration to 100
- V sync off or on, framerate locked or capped
- Messing with mouse polling rate

But it was to no avail. I'll wait around a week to see if there's a patch that might address this issue, otherwise I will unfortunately need to request a refund on this.

Did you already resort to the legacy Control Panel, Sort By Icons, Mouse, Pointer Options tab, Uncheck Enhance Pointer Precision and Apply?