dinput - mouse warping -games that needs it?

[Adam Rimon]

Hi,

I'm trying to get rid of the warping patch, or at least to change it to
something that won't make the mouse
stuck in the middle of the screen in some games (Next Life for instance).

Can you give me names of games that need this warping?
(I had found in the archives a mention of Quake II, but when I downloaded
it's demo and tried to play it with
a dinput.dll that doesn't have this warping, everything worked just fine.)

Thanks,
-Adam

[Tom Wickline]

swat 4 ?

On Dec 14, 2007 3:45 AM, Adam Rimon  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get rid of the warping patch, or at least to change it to
> something that won't make the mouse
> stuck in the middle of the screen in some games (Next Life for instance).
>
> Can you give me names of games that need this warping?
> (I had found in the archives a mention of Quake II, but when I downloaded
> it's demo and tried to play it with
> a dinput.dll that doesn't have this warping, everything worked just fine.)
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2007 09:45:48 schrieb Adam Rimon:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get rid of the warping patch, or at least to change it to
> something that won't make the mouse
> stuck in the middle of the screen in some games (Next Life for instance).
>
> Can you give me names of games that need this warping?
> (I had found in the archives a mention of Quake II, but when I downloaded
> it's demo and tried to play it with
> a dinput.dll that doesn't have this warping, everything worked just fine.)

Be warned that this is a very complex problem. You'll most likely have to 
modify the X server for that, and get a patch accepted into the Xorg code. 
Search the wine-patches and wine-devel mailing list for patches and mails 
from Vitaliy Margolen for more information

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Adam Rimon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get rid of the warping patch, or at least to change it to 
> something that won't make the mouse
> stuck in the middle of the screen in some games (Next Life for instance).
>
> Can you give me names of games that need this warping?
> (I had found in the archives a mention of Quake II, but when I 
> downloaded it's demo and tried to play it with
> a dinput.dll that doesn't have this warping, everything worked just fine.)
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam

See bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971 for programs that are 
currently broken. That's an example of what you will get it you completely 
remove mouse warping.

Yes Quake2 and all based on it games are the best example. However Q2 has a 
bug in mouse initializing code which will fail to properly acquire dinput 
mouse and will revert back to not using dinput. But it some cases (some 
games) it will acquire mouse in non-exclusive mode - the part which is 
broken atm.

For a simple test - download DXSDK it has dinput mouse test.

Vitaliy.