TOAD6147
01-23-2000, 12:59 AM
This is a follow-up to a friend telling me that his mouse locked up and kept spinning him in circles in various games. He's running a K6-2 266 on an Alton MB598 motherboard, SIS 530 AGP chipset, and CMI 8338 sound chip with 64 MB generic PC100 RAM, and a Maxtor 8.4 GIG HDD running I think the last release of Win95 4.00.950.B, build 1212. He also had just installed a Logitech Thunderpad Digital. This is how he explained it to me:
"The best I can figure, something was wrong with the the way Direct X loaded, because rebooting fixed the problem. It was only common to games using the Unreal engine. I didn't try Wheel of Time, but Half-Life worked fine and I couldn't see any problems with Star Wars Pod Racer. Unreal and Napali are probably using the same installed engine, but correct me if I am wrong, Klingon Honor Guard is bound to be using a seperate installed Unreal Engine and it was messed up in exactly the same way.
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European Air War prompted me to reinstall DX 6 and it's necessary, but it screwed up the original install, I'm pretty sure because the key mappings were goofed up in the Unreal engines and I had to reselect some of them, and get this, when I reselected the number pad 5 for move backward, the computer referred to it as "unknown oc" in both Klingon Honor Guard and both Unreal games. I had to remap the number pad Insert as well for jump. The funny thing is the keys were bound properly to the functions, but the computer wasn't recognizing them until I reselected them. So I am pretty sure that EAW screwed the thing up and it wasn't a microswitch sticking in the mouse. The first time I installed EAW, I didn't install the DX6 and the graphics sucked and I couldn't fire the guns. So when I reinstalled it I did reinstall DX6 and things in the game worked as they should even though I still couldn't run in D3D." Any suggestions would be appreciated.
PS-Sorry for the length but wanted to give details
"The best I can figure, something was wrong with the the way Direct X loaded, because rebooting fixed the problem. It was only common to games using the Unreal engine. I didn't try Wheel of Time, but Half-Life worked fine and I couldn't see any problems with Star Wars Pod Racer. Unreal and Napali are probably using the same installed engine, but correct me if I am wrong, Klingon Honor Guard is bound to be using a seperate installed Unreal Engine and it was messed up in exactly the same way.
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European Air War prompted me to reinstall DX 6 and it's necessary, but it screwed up the original install, I'm pretty sure because the key mappings were goofed up in the Unreal engines and I had to reselect some of them, and get this, when I reselected the number pad 5 for move backward, the computer referred to it as "unknown oc" in both Klingon Honor Guard and both Unreal games. I had to remap the number pad Insert as well for jump. The funny thing is the keys were bound properly to the functions, but the computer wasn't recognizing them until I reselected them. So I am pretty sure that EAW screwed the thing up and it wasn't a microswitch sticking in the mouse. The first time I installed EAW, I didn't install the DX6 and the graphics sucked and I couldn't fire the guns. So when I reinstalled it I did reinstall DX6 and things in the game worked as they should even though I still couldn't run in D3D." Any suggestions would be appreciated.
PS-Sorry for the length but wanted to give details