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Jaekus wrote:

Rod Foxx wrote:

Yes i've made backups of all the files. To give you an example if i even change the sensitivity of anything in any of the files the game will not launch. After i couldn't get the full fix to work i tried individually and the same happened

For the most part though the files i have do the job, i don't really use atv's or vehicle free look so it's not a huge loss. The main use was for tanks/turrets and now they're

I've run into an issue along these lines. I can't access the in-game menu to change my key bindings, I get a ctd. Anyone know a fix?

Last edited by JohnG@lt (2010-04-07 21:46:34)

JohnG@lt wrote:

Tip: When starting on a new round spawn as engineer with AT mines and upgraded amount of explosives carried. You'll have six mines. Run around the map tossing down mines in pairs (but not overly close because a single round will set both off) on the roads and paths. They'll stay up for the rest of the round and you'll rack up extra kills. After you die, you can play as you like with any kit and they'll stick around. I did this tonight in the three rounds I played and racked up 8 vehicle kills and 15 personnel kills. It was amusing seeing kills by me five minutes into the round and on the other side of the map

Also, unlike in BF2 where mines would 'overwrite' and older ones would disappear if you laid down new ones, in BC2 you could theoretically flood the map with mines as they do not 'overwrite'. Might be interesting to try on vehicle heavy maps like Atacama Desert.

JohnG@lt wrote:

Tip: When starting on a new round spawn as engineer with AT mines and upgraded amount of explosives carried. You'll have six mines. Run around the map tossing down mines in pairs (but not overly close because a single round will set both off) on the roads and paths. They'll stay up for the rest of the round and you'll rack up extra kills. After you die, you can play as you like with any kit and they'll stick around. I did this tonight in the three rounds I played and racked up 8 vehicle kills and 15 personnel kills. It was amusing seeing kills by me five minutes into the round and on the other side of the map

Also, unlike in BF2 where mines would 'overwrite' and older ones would disappear if you laid down new ones, in BC2 you could theoretically flood the map with mines as they do not 'overwrite'. Might be interesting to try on vehicle heavy maps like Atacama Desert.

Jaekus wrote:

Sisco10 wrote:

On another note regarding the turret fix:

What value is the one for stationary turrets, like AA guns? The one changed in the land.dbx? Vehicle turrets are fine now for me, but mounted MG´s and especially AA is way to twitchy.
I started with the value of 10 and I´m down to 5 now, but there seems to be no difference
Also, it´s nearly impossible to look around when driving a Humvee/Jetski/Quad now.

Yeah the land.dbx affects the turrets, also gunner seats in choppers and the UAV.

Have a re-read of the opening post in the link here.
There's a line that reads: "Note: 10 here is a suggestion, again feel free to experiment. Values below 5 seemed too sluggish for my taste, while values far greater than 20 did not seem to make turrets any faster at turning, just more "squirrely" (changing directions more quickly, making it harder to stay on target)."

Depending on your mouse your configurations will be different. For example, with my old mouse the Scheme0Sensitivity=x in the GameSettings.ini file was 6.7, but now with my new mouse it's at 2.7

The bottom line is you'll just have to experiment to see what works.

Oh, and make sure you've changed the string <field name="NormalizeInput">false</field> to FALSE. If you haven't, it won't work.

text wrote:

This value will be your normal in-game mouse sensitivity, it seems to have no effect on turrets or vehicles

Last edited by Sisco10 (2010-04-08 01:07:28)

Jaekus wrote:

Sisco10 wrote:

I went from 10 to 5 in the land.dbx and it didn´t really change, that´s what got me confused


edit again:
Okay, I put in a value of 1 and that made some significant change. Need to figure a bit with it. Looks like I´m a lot less twitchy than the author of the fix, lol

Again, you really need to experiment. I wasn't getting very good results until I started changing the values quite a lot. Once you have it somewhere in the ballpark of what you're comfortable with you can then begin the process of fine tuning. This may take you half an hour, a couple hours or even over the course of a few days. The good news is the more you play the more you'll be able to fine tune it to just the way you like it.

Just make sure to keep a backup of your original files, and once you have it good backup your modified files. That way if something goes wrong OR if  a new patch writes over the top of your modified files you won't have to go through the somewhat arduous process of getting your mouse settings fine tuned again.

Jaekus wrote:

I had to totally change my values when I upgraded from a stand Microsoft mouse to a secondhand Logitech MX Revolution.

My current settings are:

Scheme0Sensitivity=2.700000 (was 6.7)
Land: 10 (it was 15-20 with my old mouse, and I did have it at 13 but that felt too sensitive so last night I adjusted it back down to 10, it seemed to be good when on singel player)
Air: 200 (had it at 250-300 with my old mouse)

A lot of it is dependent on your mouse, at least in my experience.

What I'd recommend for you is to start with 2, then go up to 4. If 2 is not enough and 4 is too much you have your parameters for both ends of the spectrum so the ideal sensitivity for you must be somewhere in between these two values. Then go to 3. If this is too sensitive, you know it has to be somewhere between 2-3, if it's not enough then it has to be somewhere between 3-4. Keep this process going and you'll soon have it.