Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   I liked it so much, in fact, that I ordered Myst IV (which seems to
> follow the same conventions).

  While in Myst III there is an option to invert the mouse Y axis, there
is no such option in Myst IV. Not even though people have complained to
Ubisoft about this and pleaded for a patch which would add the feature
(both Myst III and IV are published by Ubisoft, so it seems strange that
the feature is in the former but not in the latter). Some users have even
gone so far as to demand a refund for the game if they don't fix it, but
Ubisoft's response has been basically, "we don't do refunds; we might look
at the issue of the lacking option for inverting the vertical axis, maybe".
Naturally, no such patch has ever been published. Ubisoft doesn't care.

  Maybe Ubisoft learned from people's complaints about Myst IV and avoided
the same mistake with Myst V? Nope. There is no option to invert the
vertical mouse axis in Myst V either. People have complained, a lot, and
demanded for a patch to add the option. Ubisoft is ignoring them. Nobody
can even start beginning to comprehend the reason for this. It's not like
the feature would be difficult to implement. In fact, it's one of the
easiest things one could implement in such a game, and 99.99% of games
where the mouse controls the camera offer such an option (although there
are some other games which don't either, shame on them).

  "Ok", you might say, "then just use an external software to invert the
vertical mouse axis for that game; surely Logitech has such an option in
their mouse drivers?" You would be surprised: No system software or driver,
not Windows, not Microsoft's mouse drivers, not Logitech's mouse drivers,
nothing, supports this simple feature. Logitech has a software which allows
you to bind many settings and events to different keys... except for inverting
the vertical mouse axis. No dice.

  After an extensive online search, I have found exactly *one* program which
allows you to do this (by sitting atop the actual mouse driver and inverting
the Y axis), but it's not free. You have to pay money for it.

  One single program.

  How hard can this be?

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                                                          - Warp

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