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Kinda cool that Chrome added pointer lock, but the responsiveness of moving the cursor around the screen is pretty shit. Maybe it's mac mouse acceleration's fau

Kinda cool that Chrome added pointer lock, but the responsiveness of moving the cursor around the screen is pretty shit. Maybe it's mac mouse acceleration's fault?

tgb 12y ago
Same for me, but on Windows. Otherwise it's a pretty neat tech demo but is unfortunately rendered unplayable by this bug.
davesque 12y ago
FPS games kinda suck on Mac for this reason. This little control panel widget helps a little bit: http://smoothmouse.com/ http://smoothmouse.com/
killertypo 12y ago
I noticed this as well, but I use a trackball mouse and I can flick the ball and get good responsiveness.
EpicEng 12y ago
Works fine on my 2013 MacAir
zanny 12y ago
No problems on Arch, just the fps was underwhelming on a 290 on Gallium / Firefox.
- loudmax 12y ago
  What's underwhelming? I was getting 38 fps on chromium/Arch on a ThinkPad X230. I guess it's slow if you're used to 60 fps, but I was quite impressed.
  - zanny 12y ago
    Average fps was 47, but this game seems to be composed of very few polygons. I mean less than Quake 1 here. It should scream at 300+ fps at least on a video card like that. That, and it seems its either the browser or the game fps capped at 60. Which makes the experience on a 144hz monitor less appealing.
    - killertypo 12y ago
      yeah but that's conflating simple with optimized, which i doubt this is. A lot can probably be done to make this run much faster. This is not a AAA title.
hardwaresofton 12y ago
Not trying to convert you to FF, but it works great on FF 35 for me
- _almosnow 12y ago
  I actually just came here to say how shitty was cursor lock on Firefox. Firefox just keeps getting worse and worse.
  - rockdoe 12y ago
    What problem are you having exactly? Works fine here.
    - _almosnow 12y ago
      Cursor 'snaps out' of the window if I move a lot to the left/right. And Firefox IS going to shit, whether the HN community likes it or not.
      - hardwaresofton 12y ago
        It doesn't do that for me, I played the game pretty spasticly... I don't know in what way you mean Firefox is going to shit, but here's the great part about it: you can file bug reports, and submit code so it ISN'T shit.
        _almosnow 12y ago
        At least you could justify Chrome's bad design decisions with "that's what's good for Google". And that's what makes it even worse for Firefox. US$311 -->MILLION<-- a year ("not-for-profit"), lot of developers working for free on it and they can't come up with a decent web browser, shame on them, and shame on the guys that believe their bs.
cheald 12y ago
There's a mouse sensitivity option in the menu.
- BasDirks 12y ago
  accel != sens
  - cheald 12y ago
    The OP commented on responsiveness, which is certainly a sensitivity issue.

Kinda cool that Chrome added pointer lock, but the responsiveness of moving the cursor around the screen is pretty shit. Maybe it's mac mouse acceleration's fault?

tgb 12y ago

Same for me, but on Windows. Otherwise it's a pretty neat tech demo but is unfortunately rendered unplayable by this bug.

davesque 12y ago

FPS games kinda suck on Mac for this reason. This little control panel widget helps a little bit: http://smoothmouse.com/ http://smoothmouse.com/

killertypo 12y ago

I noticed this as well, but I use a trackball mouse and I can flick the ball and get good responsiveness.

EpicEng 12y ago

Works fine on my 2013 MacAir

zanny 12y ago

No problems on Arch, just the fps was underwhelming on a 290 on Gallium / Firefox.

loudmax 12y ago
What's underwhelming? I was getting 38 fps on chromium/Arch on a ThinkPad X230. I guess it's slow if you're used to 60 fps, but I was quite impressed.
- zanny 12y ago
  Average fps was 47, but this game seems to be composed of very few polygons. I mean less than Quake 1 here. It should scream at 300+ fps at least on a video card like that. That, and it seems its either the browser or the game fps capped at 60. Which makes the experience on a 144hz monitor less appealing.
  - killertypo 12y ago
    yeah but that's conflating simple with optimized, which i doubt this is. A lot can probably be done to make this run much faster. This is not a AAA title.

hardwaresofton 12y ago

Not trying to convert you to FF, but it works great on FF 35 for me

_almosnow 12y ago
I actually just came here to say how shitty was cursor lock on Firefox. Firefox just keeps getting worse and worse.
- rockdoe 12y ago
  What problem are you having exactly? Works fine here.
  - _almosnow 12y ago
    Cursor 'snaps out' of the window if I move a lot to the left/right. And Firefox IS going to shit, whether the HN community likes it or not.
    - hardwaresofton 12y ago
      It doesn't do that for me, I played the game pretty spasticly... I don't know in what way you mean Firefox is going to shit, but here's the great part about it: you can file bug reports, and submit code so it ISN'T shit.
      - _almosnow 12y ago
        At least you could justify Chrome's bad design decisions with "that's what's good for Google". And that's what makes it even worse for Firefox. US$311 -->MILLION<-- a year ("not-for-profit"), lot of developers working for free on it and they can't come up with a decent web browser, shame on them, and shame on the guys that believe their bs.

cheald 12y ago

There's a mouse sensitivity option in the menu.

BasDirks 12y ago
accel != sens
- cheald 12y ago
  The OP commented on responsiveness, which is certainly a sensitivity issue.