mouse sensitivity and game resolution not changeable in-game

[Kingtology]

Hey Factorio devs,

Why the heck do I have to rely on Windows to set my resolution and mouse sensitivity? I want to play in 4K with DLDSR, but nope—gotta change it in Windows first. It’s 2024, how about a simple option in-game?

And the mouse sensitivity? Same story—Windows settings again. We’re building factories, but for some reason, changing basic settings is still a mess.

[Fel]

Purely out of curiosity but why do you want a different resolution and mouse sensitivity for the game?

I can understand wanting to use a lower resolution for GPU-intensive games (and/or older hardware) in order to increase the performances but that doesn't seem to be what you want here so I'm at a loss on what the reason is.

Similarly, sensitivity makes sense for games where you control other things than a cursor with the mouse (camera usually but can also be for rotations in 6 degrees of freedom games) but usually there is a separate sensitivity modifier instead.

I don't doubt that you have reasons for wanting those, and it's not up to me to judge them anyway, I am just curious about them.

On a side note, this is a forum where the devs don't come (maybe on the bugs subforum and even then it's not sure), the official forums is probably your best bet if you wanted this to reach them instead of just other players.

[RiO]

Originally posted by Kingtology:

And the mouse sensitivity? Same story—Windows settings again. We’re building factories, but for some reason, changing basic settings is still a mess.

Actually; all those other games allowing you to change mouse sensitivity in-game?
Yeah; they're doing it wrong.

At least: they're doing it wrong, if they're cursor-driven games, like Factorio.
Having in-game mouse sensitivity sliders only makes sense when you're not using the mouse as an actual mouse, i.e. as an actual pointer device, but you're predominantly binding it to something like mouse-look in a first person shooter.

If you're not doing any of that, you're supposed to just use the platform settings, which allows you to use a hardware mouse cursor overlay provided by the OS itself - without the game having to render anything and spend resources. (And without the cursor going janky during temporary FPS drops.)

[Aris]

Using DLDSR in a 2D game doesn't make any sense. You're not getting any image quality improvement, and text will just look blury.

[Chindraba]

Welp. Decided to read up on the DLDSR thing.

Rubbish !!

So, you want to make the game think you have a better monitor than you do, and then try to get that clarity 'forced' into the monitor's real resolution? That's about as dense as the rings of Saturn. If you really want 4K resolution, get a 4K monitor.

You want the game to offer the option to set DLDSR? Explain that to nVidia. Seems they have kept that control to themselves by making it a low-level driver setting and only exposing that in their own app's control panel. (Just another reason I'm no longer a nVidia customer.)

As you may have noticed, it is 2024 already, and nearly 2025 even. How about getting with the times and taking responsibility for your choices and obtain the equipment designed for your preferences rather than trying to drive a Volkswagen Thing and pretend it's a Lamborghini Countach.

[Estelyen]

Originally posted by Chindraba:

As you may have noticed, it is 2024 already, and nearly 2025 even. How about getting with the times and taking responsibility for your choices and obtain the equipment designed for your preferences rather than trying to drive a Volkswagen Thing and pretend it's a Lamborghini Countach.

There aren't many posts that make me wish Steam discussions had an upvote feature. This one does.