Hardware Mouse Fix

**Cayos** · 2010-09-06 10:49

http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/13...mouse-lag-fix/

So apparently there is a hardware mouse in the game files, it's just a matter of enabling it. It works, according to the testimonials at the original link above.

Hi,

Note: This is super experimental and I have no idea if this will work for you. Even if it does, it will most certainly stop working after the next update.

I think I fixed mouse lag in FFXIV. Turns out that there is a hardware mouse mode in FFXIV, and so I wrote a patch to enable it.

The new patch is available here: http://static.ffxiah.com/ffxiv/FFXIVMousePatcher.exe - For game version 2010.09.06.2000 ONLY!

Put the patcher in the same directory as ffxivgame.exe (i.e. in the main FFXIV program folder). Make sure that you have the latest game version before applying the patch (currently the patch only works on whatever the latest version is). Make sure to make a backup of the original, because the patcher won't do it for you.

After it's done, you should have smooth mouse action. This DOESN'T fix input lag caused by low frame rate, but it does make the game playable...whereas before I couldn't stand it.

Please test and let me know if it works for you. If it does I'll work on a more robust patcher that survives version updates.

UPDATE: If SE updates the game version, you will get an error 'An update error has occurred - 20524' as it is applying the patch. When this happens, simply move your backup ffxivgame.exe file back into place and run the game again. It will succeed. After that succeeds, you can re-patch with the new version of the mouse patch above.

Don't have a backup? I'll let you slide this time and provide a downgrade patch so that your install isn't broken. Next time, back up!

http://static.ffxiah.com/ffxiv/FFXIVMouseUnpatcher.exe - This is ONLY for downgrading a patched game version 2010.09.05.2000 to unpatched 2010.09.05.2000 for people who didn't make a backup.

-cliff

**ASG** · 2010-09-06 10:54

I've done it, its leaps and bounds better. Although after implementing it I was on for about a hour and crashed 3 times. Not sure if there is a correlation or not.

**Hyan** · 2010-09-06 10:56

"we have no plans for hardware mouse at this time" wat

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2010-09-06 10:56

Prolly not cuz you'll just crash as much without it too
Tried it last night works awesomely

**Kirbyprime** · 2010-09-06 11:51

Oh my... the mouse... it's beautiful...

**Hyan** · 2010-09-06 11:53

Originally Posted by Kirbyprime

Oh my... the mouse... it's beautiful...

http://lolfed.com/wp-content/uploads...-very-nice.jpg

**Jak** · 2010-09-06 12:00

I spent five minutes just freely targeting things and moving my mouse around, just because it was that awesome. :>

**ufo** · 2010-09-06 13:07

They can easily implement the hardware mouse, they just don't want to because it makes it easier to design bots.

**Kurokikaze** · 2010-09-06 13:09

Please stop passing that around as an excuse or reasoning. I'm going to let you think about why that doesn't make sense.

**sruon** · 2010-09-06 13:11

Originally Posted by ufo

They can easily implement the hardware mouse, they just don't want to because it makes it easier to design bots.

Spoiler: show

**ufo** · 2010-09-06 13:14

I didn't say it made sense, that's just why they are doing it. thanks for the fix btw

Vuitton · 2010-09-06 13:48

And another community member forces SE to lose face yet again.

**machiko** · 2010-09-06 14:00

Considering he just turned on what Square already had in the game if people talk too much crap they can simply remove it from the code and no more hardware mouse.

**byte** · 2010-09-06 14:01

Originally Posted by Vuitton

And another community member forces SE to lose face yet again.

Not lying to their playerbase, ignoring feedback and withholding vital information, would go a long way.

**Hyan** · 2010-09-06 14:04

Originally Posted by byte

Not lying to their playerbase, ignoring feedback would go a long way.

. . .

**Caerith** · 2010-09-06 14:05

Originally Posted by machiko

Considering he just turned on what Square already had in the game if people talk too much crap they can simply remove it from the code and no more hardware mouse.

Quite the opposite, he turned off what Square had in the game. In Cliff's words,

What's funny about this patch is there is an equivalent of 'EnableUnusableInterface(true);' in FFXIV, and I basically just changed it to false.

-Cliff

If Square removes this from the code, then there will be hardware mouse by default. SE is trolling us.

**Hyan** · 2010-09-06 14:14

Originally Posted by Caerith

If Square removes this from the code, then there will be hardware mouse by default. SE is trolling us.

They haven't implemented it to the config menu yet so can't release it!?

We must have the option to choose the software mouse if we so wish, after all.

I wonder how long it's been there.

**BlackheartX** · 2010-09-06 14:54

Might want to throw up a warning on this that says "may cause instability!!!" or something especially since it's modified code.

**Snowknight26** · 2010-09-06 14:56

No it's not.

**BlackheartX** · 2010-09-06 14:59

Happy, point still stands.

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