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GamerE Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 13 Joined: Mar 15^th, 2015	Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Mar 16^th, 2015 at 8:14pm	Print Post
	I am trying to run DDO in a VMWare Player virtual machine (windows 7 pro x64) and it seems to be up and running fine except that when I right-click with the mouse, instead of letting me control the camera as normal, it rotates through max up to max down positions of the camera as I move the mouse (while holding R-Mouse button). Anyone have an idea how to resolve this? Thanks!


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DropBear Dropbear Awareness Society Offline Don't forget to look up.... Posts: 4374 Location: Landdownunder Joined: Oct 11^th, 2013	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #1 - Mar 16^th, 2015 at 8:26pm	Print Post
	Have you checked your key mapping defaults in DDO? Maybe something funky going on there?

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GamerE Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 13 Joined: Mar 15^th, 2015	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #2 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 10:57am	Print Post
	yes, it is a fresh install and is completely vanilla standard/default. I did double-check and keyboard layout is normal. I even tried changing from default to FPS and classic with no change in behavior.


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Angry Puppy Farmer Offline Posts: 1699 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2014	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #3 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 11:10am	Print Post
	My thought would be to check Windows/ VMWare mouse settings. Might be something there that makes it act funny.


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noamineo Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline All men fear time, but time fears the pyramids Posts: 8868 Location: Titan Joined: Jul 2^nd, 2014	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #4 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 11:44am	Print Post
	I apologize if this seems like thread-jacking, but I am very curious. I have never successfully made video games work inside of VMs. I always get apocalyptic lag and an FPS rate that can more accurately be described as Frames Per Hour. What's your secret?

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GamerE Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 13 Joined: Mar 15^th, 2015	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #5 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 4:38pm	Print Post
	I have not done it that much but never had particular problems with performance. Performance is never as good as running on the desktop but shrugs... Then again, I run on a very beefy laptop setup, so performance is rarely an issue for most any program.


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noamineo Completionist (i.t.p.) Offline All men fear time, but time fears the pyramids Posts: 8868 Location: Titan Joined: Jul 2^nd, 2014	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #6 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 5:13pm	Print Post
	Maybe Its just me, then I've been trying to run VMs in windowed-mode(for a cheap way to play any game in a window, you see...). I also have typically tried Oracle's Virtual Box, which isn't that great. Then again, I also have an extraordinarily beefy system of my own... robust, even

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AtomicMew Horoluth Raider Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 2073 Joined: Jan 12^th, 2011	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #7 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 7:56pm	Print Post
	The way to resolve it is to change the mouse settings so that the mouse device is dedicated to the VM when the VM is active. There's a setting for that somewhere, just look around. By the way, I suggest running windows 8 (or windows 10 preview) as a VM. For some reason and I'm not exactly sure why, windows 8 VM is much more performant than windows 7. My guess is that it's related to all the virtualization improvements for server 2012.


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DropBear Dropbear Awareness Society Offline Don't forget to look up.... Posts: 4374 Location: Landdownunder Joined: Oct 11^th, 2013	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #8 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 8:34pm	Print Post
	noamineo wrote on Mar 17^th, 2015 at 5:13pm: Then again, I also have an extraordinarily beefy system of my own... robust, even Now you're just showing off.... Are you assigning the VM enough resources? DDO mostly needs memory. Shouldn't be a problem if you're running with 8-16GB ram, and give the VM a decent chunk? I haven't tried to play DDO in a VM. GamerE - what sort of resources do you assign to the VM?

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Arkat Chonus Christ Offline Hola Bienvenido Posts: 12345 Location: Wyoming Joined: Jul 13^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #9 - Mar 17^th, 2015 at 11:58pm	Print Post
	I think Atomic is on the right track.

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Mr Titan Demolisher Offline Posts: 361 Joined: Apr 20^th, 2011	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #10 - Mar 18^th, 2015 at 5:46am	Print Post
	Make sure the ddo in the VM has the right mouse key mapped to one of the steer options in the key mapping area (I use select target/steer) Options/key mappings Also you might want to check that it (right mouse button)is not assigned to something else.


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GamerE Korthos Resident Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 13 Joined: Mar 15^th, 2015	Re: Right-Mouse messed up when running under VMPlayer Reply #11 - Mar 18^th, 2015 at 10:07am	Print Post
	Excellent question and suggestions one and all. As for resources on my VM, I have dedicated 4G RAM and the performance on the VM is fine. As for Atomic's recommendation, I have tried that and been unsuccessful at "locking" a mouse into the VMPlayer. I have followed the directions in the website below as well as multiple other websites/recommendations with similar recommendations. The standard USB dell mouse I am using does not show up in the list of USB devices. Not sure how to get around that or if it is actually the real problem anyway... <sigh> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=display...


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