Camera constantly panning upwards

[Coolbeans]

In every game type the camera will always pan upwards unless you hold the down button then it will just stay still as it should. I don't have a clue what is causing it and have already tied verifying the integrity of my game cache etc, and i don't get this problem in AoE or any other games so I feel it must be some scripting error or something like that. Does anyone have any advice or the same problem?

[NF: Strugatsky Noir]

Having same issue, unable to find solution.

[Reaper]

Jesus, this thing is gamebreaking, I'm having the same problem. Did anyone find a solution or is this just broken?

[Shota]

I've played RON for over 10 years. This has never happened to me.

Did you try pressing Up temporarily to reset the up pan?

Also try running the game in windowed mode. Open up rise2.ini (for me on Windows 7 it's located in C:\Users\Shota\AppData\Roaming\microsoft games\rise of nations) and set Fullscreen to 0.

Give that a shot.

[Reaper]

Do you really think I haven't tried pressing up on the keyboard? I've pressed up, down, left, right as well as almost every other button on the keyboard. Even tried ctrl+arrow keys.

I'd really hate to have to play the game in windowed mode, perhaps switching to it and back will solve it...

[mess with Chen, get the horns]

It's likely something with DirectInput or something going to hell on new systems. The game comes with distributables, but literally Steam has never installed them properly for any system, despite letting them run for 5 minutes before some games open. Even if I install the included runtimes manually the game is bugging for me.

Edit: After installing ALL the x86 and x64 redistributables again from 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2012, and the included DX runtimes, the game overlay fails to work, and the in-game camera pans upwards.

I'm on Windows 7 Professional x64 with trackpad, trackpoint, USB mouse, and an internal accelerometer (which has shown up in Linux as a detectable input device). Otherwise there is nothing special about my system. If I push up the camera moves up 2x speed, and if I press down the camera stops, so it seems to just detect an up or up left command.

[Reaper]

All we can hope for is a quick fix, but seeing as there haven't been one.. I suppose there won't be one either.

[mess with Chen, get the horns]

It seems to be dependent on DPI settings. On Windows 8 in particular, I think it comes with DPI turned up by default, so that could do it.

On my Windows 7, to get to the DPI settings, you can right click and go to Screen Resolution, then one of the lines of text towards the bottom is "make text and other items larger or smaller". It's not convenient to change and I wouldn't recommend changing it if you're sharing the computer, but it is a workaround. I only had 125% increase and it was bugging, 100% works fine.

It solves both the issue with the launcher not displaying properly AND the camera automatically moving. Cheers!

[Reaper]

That sounds great, though I'm not sure I changed the making text larger option, I'll check it out though!

[Reaper]

As I expected, I had 100% already. I will, howevery give borderless windowed a try now.

Edit: I played a two hour game on borderless fullscreen (wannabe windowed mode, that is) and it didn't get stuck! Hallelujah! Luckily I didn't have to restort to true windowed mode.

[alemismun]

Originally posted by Coolbeans:

In every game type the camera will always pan upwards unless you hold the down button then it will just stay still as it should. I don't have a clue what is causing it and have already tied verifying the integrity of my game cache etc, and i don't get this problem in AoE or any other games so I feel it must be some scripting error or something like that. Does anyone have any advice or the same problem?

ever found a solution?

[alemismun]

Originally posted by Reaper:

As I expected, I had 100% already. I will, howevery give borderless windowed a try now.

Edit: I played a two hour game on borderless fullscreen (wannabe windowed mode, that is) and it didn't get stuck! Hallelujah! Luckily I didn't have to restort to true windowed mode.

How did you place it borderless?

[BluntsNAnime]

My game was running fine for several days until I tab+alted one day mid-game and came back into the game to find the camera stuck panning up. I tried everything including verifying the cache, reinstalling the game, wiping all pre-saved information about the game from the computer, and setting it to windowless mode. Nothing worked until I started moving the camera around using my numberkey pad and it stopped immediately after that. I hope this helps some of you.

[Fedomar]

Sounds to me like the key was stuck... but guess you ruled that out...