Framerate independent cursor

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 29 Jul 2006, 16:58

Pretty much all other RTSes do that, when the framerate drops the cursor still moves normally instead of once per frame. Spring becomes totally unusable when the framerate goes down especially since framerate drops rarely just slow stuff down, more often it turns into a slideshow and giving orders is impossible without pausing.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 29 Jul 2006, 18:03

Yeah thats a pain, I hate when the whole game goes in Slide-Mode:

Now showing 3 pictures a second!

lol

+1 for cursors independency, FREE THE CURSORS!

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 30 Jul 2006, 00:04

+1 for the independant cursors!

DAMN YOU SOFTWARE CURSORS!!!

AF · Post by AF » 30 Jul 2006, 00:27

Post by **jcnossen** » 30 Jul 2006, 01:30

Games such as? And don't mention any 2D rtses..

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 30 Jul 2006, 02:34

Command and Conquer, Almost any of em can lag on my comp upstairs (its from 1996, err somewheres then)

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » 30 Jul 2006, 02:52

That would be a 2d RTS.

I'm pretty sure that if the game itself is lagging, there's no way to avoid cursor lag.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 30 Jul 2006, 03:27

jcnossen wrote:Games such as? And don't mention any 2D rtses..

Well theres.... uh... err... well go on JC and break the mold.

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 30 Jul 2006, 04:29

umm... TA? >_<

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 30 Jul 2006, 04:33

TA is 2D. I'll give you HL, where the response of the cursor doesn't change when FPS drop is applied, but I can't think of a single 3D rendered game that actually has the cursor render in full FPS while the 3D scene is chugging. I don't know if it's even possible to set aside video resources to do something like that. The video card is either used completely or not at all, it can't half work itself to max on a 3D scene and still work normally on a totally different scene AFAIK.

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 30 Jul 2006, 05:01

Yes, TA is 2D, which is why the majority of mods use a majority of models from TA and genblood is able to make maps.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 30 Jul 2006, 06:58

It's often a menu option called "mouse lag reduction" or something like that and may need to be enabled by hand. I've seen it in Perimeter, Earth 2160, C&C Generals (if I'm not mistaken) and Spellforce lately. In fact I can't remember any recent RTS that doesn't do this.

Cyberwal · Post by **Cyberwal** » 30 Jul 2006, 12:23

Ground Control 2 uses a hardware cursor (is this the right term for it?) too, for example.

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Framerate independent cursor

Framerate independent cursor