KelvaKatarre Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 (edited) (Solution that worked for me is in bold text below) Since launch, I've gone through three different rigs and at least as many mice. Every rig I have ever played on has had this problem: When rotating the camera by holding a mouse button, sometimes - particularly if I have momentary frame rate stutter - the camera will fly off wildly in a random direction and I'll end up pointing off a bridge or into something worse than death, like Episode I. It's as if the mouse acceleration keeps compounding during the frame rate skips and slams into the control buffer all at once. Sometimes the acceleration values don't clear properly, either, so I have to sit there for a few seconds spinning the camera manually until I regain control. Anyways, I have a Redragon Perdition M901 mouse - I replaced my old Razer Naga with it and never looked back - and this problem was frustrating me, so I decided to fiddle with it. On a Reddit thread five years ago, user "OniYume" posted a fix, and I'd like to share that with you because it turned SWTOR from a sad, unplayable dream into a beautiful, functional reality. If you have a Razer mouse, or a Redragon mouse, or a fancy Logitech gaming mouse, or anything with big old fancy polling rate settings, TURN THEM DOWN. It sucks to have to do it but I set my polling rate down from 500HZ to 125HZ, and while I can still feel the problem sometimes, it doesn't swing my camera more than a few degrees when it happens. It's playable. I can perfect my speeder bike drifting and one day reach the D Dimension. Or, you know. Finally cap that smuggler. Edited August 9, 2017 by KelvaKatarre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JattaGin Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 This is an issue that has always and still is bothering me, too. What is a "polling rate" though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediQuaker Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 (edited) What is a "polling rate" though? It's the number of times per second that the mouse sends position data to the system, or, more precisely, the number of times per second that the system polls (asks for) position data from the mouse. (The polling rate setting is usually in your mouse's software.) Edited August 9, 2017 by JediQuaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerockyul Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 Wow, I always thought it was my fault somehow. I'll check my mouse settings today. Thanks for posting this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvaKatarre Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 Wow, I always thought it was my fault somehow. I'll check my mouse settings today. Thanks for posting this! I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChronicSquirrel Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Daaaymn! About time I found a fix for this ****** experience killing bug. At times, I wanted to toss my gd Logitech mouse in the trash over this. Turns out my G903 mouse with the G-Hub software logitech now distributes has the damned Poll Rate at 1000, **** right lol? Thanx anyway:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkbloom Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Thank you for this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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