I tried all sorts of things-disabling vsync, forcing on triple-buffering, setting the Nvidia graphics drivers to allow the GPU to render more than three frames ahead, dropping to a lower screen resolution, and using a very fast mouse-in various combinations, but none of them resolved this disconnect. The gap between regular sensitivity and movement/aim-mode sensitivity seems to vary inconsistently while playing and makes predictable movement almost impossible.įor me, the final problem was really the last straw, since I realized that none of the various troubleshooting measures recommended online were any help for this particular problem.

Worse yet, mouse movement becomes even slower if you are pressing a W/A/S/D movement key or if you have your character in 'aim mode' in the game.

But you may still find yourself 'rowing' the mouse across the desk multiple times in order to turn around.

Cranking up the game’s mouse sensitivity slider to the highest setting may help somewhat, and using a high-DPI mouse may help, too.

In the game itself, mouse control is both imprecise and also slow.Just setting up options and starting the game can be a chore. In the game’s menus, mouse pointer movement is strangely imprecise and feels 'floaty,' as many folks have described it.We should begin by classifying the several Dead Space control pathologies, since they are related but somewhat separate. After spending some more time with the problem, I still believe the game’s controls are broken, but I do have some insights about how they’re broken-and some possible workarounds that might help. I did, in fact, try most of the common remedies discussed online early on in troubleshooting the problem, before coming to the conclusion that the game’s mouse-and-keyboard control scheme is fundamentally broken. My last post on mouse and control issues in Dead Space brought in lots of advice, including encouragement to try things (like disabling vsync) that had helped some folks improve the mouse control on their systems.

How to fix the mouse in dead space