Mouse Sensitivity

[sammarkholland]

I recently bought the first Mass Effect after having played 2 and 3 on consoles, and I wanted to play the first one.
I'm playing on my laptop with a wireless mouse attached, but the mouse sensitivity is rendering the game unplayable. If I move the mouse an inch it moves the camera a mile, it's ridiculous. There is only the wireless mouse receiver attached and nothing else. I've changed the settings in game, edited the .ini files and the same problem occurs. I've noticed a lot of people have had this problem and yet there hasn't been any solution. The same happens when I play with the laptops trackpad, so it's not my mouse that's the problem. Can anyone help?

I should also point out that the camera only works properly when I hold the middle mouse button down, this just seems like a bizarre problem

Laptop specs are as follows (if it'll help at all)
Win7
Processor - Intel i5-3210m @2.5GHz > 3.1GHz
Memory - 6GB
Graphics Card - Nvidea GeForce GT 630m
All the drivers are updated as well, I'm not sure what else you'd need to know

[Makiki]

So even when you change the mouse sensitivity from the settings it still moves a lot? Adjusting the sensitivity doesn't affect in any way?

I tried to search some stuff and I read that you could try changing DPI setting to a lower value if you have Logitech mouse. Some person said they bought a mouse with an adjustable DPI because of this. Or set your mouse settings in Windows very high and turn down DPI to compensate. Or lowering your overall mouse sensitivity on your PC might affect in-game. Control panel > Mouse.

And here's a good old thread:
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/784595/1#785861

It seems it has helped some people.

Edit: Oh sh*t, I didn't look properly. That's for ME2... I'm not sure if that will work with ME1.

[sammarkholland]

Yeah the settings don't change it in any way, even editing the .ini files has no effect. 2nd and 3rd ME games play fine on my laptop, as with every other game I've played with a mouse, just not ME1. Think it may be a lost cause, but fortunately I bought the game when it was 75% off!

[msanti84]

I've got the same issue. I've tried the windows mouse settings, Logitech software settings, the in-game sensitivity settings, and even the .ini files. I uninstalled the 'Logitech Gaming Software' to see if that would help. Nope. I've even tried playing the game at several resolutions. The slightest movement of the mouse causes the camera to rotate several times.

Additionally, I don't have the 'invert mouse' setting enabled, but my y-axis is inverted.

I'm running Windows8 Pro, and using a Logitech G9 mouse. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[msanti84]

Found a solution that worked for me in another thread:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/17460/discussions/0/810924774407271703/