Guild Wars 2 Forum

So here's my problem.

There's alot of camera glitches and complaints being tossed around about GW2's camera, and I sorted through every forum post and video I could before deciding my glitch was unique or at least rare. In game, (and no where else), my camera has an X-axis limitation. Just like you can't move the camera up or down indefinitely, (hitting a kind of north and south pole on your character) I can't move the camera left or right more that about 90 degrees. Changing the camera rotation speed can increase or decrease my degree of freedom, but not to the point where the game is playable.

Running Mountain Lion 10.8.1 on a new 2012 Macbook Pro, and yes I'm using the GW2-specific version of Crossover. I experienced this exact same glitch when I tried using PlayonMac. I don't see this glitch being addressed at all anywhere else on the interwebz, and I'm worried it's just some rogue setting in my computer that will still be there even when Crossover starts supporting GW2. If anyone else has had a similar problem, please post about it. Everything else about GW2 works wonderfully on the Mac but this one camera glitch makes it entirely unplayable.

Gary Wilson wrote:

So here's my problem.

There's alot of camera glitches and complaints being tossed around
about GW2's camera, and I sorted through every forum post and video
I could before deciding my glitch was unique or at least rare. In
game, (and no where else), my camera has an X-axis limitation. Just
like you can't move the camera up or down indefinitely, (hitting a
kind of north and south pole on your character) I can't move the
camera left or right more that about 90 degrees. Changing the
camera rotation speed can increase or decrease my degree of freedom,
but not to the point where the game is playable.

Running Mountain Lion 10.8.1 on a new 2012 Macbook Pro, and yes I'm
using the GW2-specific version of Crossover. I experienced this
exact same glitch when I tried using PlayonMac. I don't see this
glitch being addressed at all anywhere else on the interwebz, and
I'm worried it's just some rogue setting in my computer that will
still be there even when Crossover starts supporting GW2. If anyone
else has had a similar problem, please post about it. Everything
else about GW2 works wonderfully on the Mac but this one camera
glitch makes it entirely unplayable.

This is an issue for EVERYONE running GW2 in Crossover.
Originally mouse camera movement didn't work at all. The Crossover team was nice enough to very speedily put together a build that enabled camera control, but as you say it is restricted control.

What is happening is that the computer sort of assumes that your mouse keeps moving even after you've right clicked. As you know, mouse pointers can't go past the edge of the screen. So when you right click and drag to move the camera your mouse eventually "hits" the edge and thus you can no longer move it (same goes for up and down). (Obviously when you let go of right click the mouse is still in the same place, so it's just that the computer perceives it hitting the edge, not that it actually does).

Pretty sure that the Crossover guys are working on fixing this (I think it was said that this is a priority, can't recall where though).
At the moment I suggest you try and keep your mouse in the centre of the screen as this will give you even movement capabilities for all sides.
OR. If you know that, for example, you are going to be moving the camera right quite a lot then start your right click/hold from the left hand side of the screen, it should let you rotate it about 360 degrees depending on your sensitivity (it just wont let you rotate in this opposite direction).

Okay, awesome, that's a load off. Glad it's getting worked on. Thank you!

Actually, and this isn't something I've tried (should have thought to include it in the crosstie in the build I put up...)

You could try the 'MouseWarpOverride' as described here:

http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys

... essentially, open 'regedit' with Programs->Run Command in CrossOver, then look for 'MouseWarpOverride' in the above page and see whether using regedit to tweak the reg settings in your gw2 bottle will make any difference in terms of camera movement for you (I don't know which of 'enable' or 'force' is more likely to work, if either).

I will try to try sometime soon - if anyone here comfortable with doing this gives it a try and has luck, post back!

Cheers,

Josh.

Unfortunately neither enable or force changed the mouse behaviour for me. Still hits the imaginary edge :/

Tried this key with "enable", "force" and just for the heck of it "enabled".
No luck.

One thing i believe is to be related. When the mouse "freaks out" is the point where he left the game/crossover/wine window.
Unlike the other poster, i can still turn around but it turns at warp speed. When i release my mouse button 2, the pointer is over my mac desktop (i play windowed mode).
i have created quite a few folders because of this :)

Thanks for the information guys. Too bad it's not working for anybody =P

Here's hoping Crossover makes it happen and soon!

In this case it's very likely that aside from us fixing the issue within Wine, there is not much that will help. I have high doubts that the registry key Josh mentioned will do much if anything in this situation. Not that it's not worth a try, more that it's an older tip and for this sort of problem it's been known to cause additional issues in-game (I'm thinking of Skyrim for what it's worth).

Mac and Linux users may see some improvement by adjusting their mouse sensitivity both within OS settings and within the game. Your mileage will vary. Adjusting mouse sensitivity is often counter intuitive and I would personally recommend only making one adjustment at a time (making adjustments even more tedious and perhaps not worth the effort).

We are doing our best to triage this mouse issue and it is being actively worked on by our developers with hopes to have marked improvement by or before the release of CrossOver 12 (with high hopes that it comes sooner).