Doomsday for Mac - mouse starts spinning in any game I load...
Hello. I'm experiencing a weird problem with the Mac version of the Doomsday engine - specifically version 1.9.9 - I prefer this version to the newest one because it's easier and more straight forward, and also has the resolution and display/graphics settings in the main menu, among other useful settings (If the newest version has this as well then I haven't been able to find it!) Also, I'm using this on a Macbook Pro running mojave. if that is a factor in this problem.. So whenever I load a game - any game it seems - the mouse starts flipping up or down and spinning out of control. I don't have a mouse of any kind connected, just using the trackpad. I've disabled bluetooth thinking it might be my ps4 controller causing a problem but no change at all. It also does this in the control panel within the options.
What is the issue and how do I fix it? I never had this problem on my previous macbook from a few years ago. I don't have this problem on the newest version of doomsday but I definitely prefer 1.9.9 for the options and simplicity - oh and the newest version won't recognize my heretic.wad file - I've tried a few different ones to see if it was a problem with the wad itself but no luck - doomsday 2.1.1 says it's missing the data files and I can't see any options to try to fix it other than the directory option.) So I would much rather prefer to stick with 1.9.9 if I can. I have no idea what could possibly cause this!? Oh and doesn't start until I actually touch the trackpad. It will just sit there but once my finger even grazes the trackpad it goes crazy, even if I stop touching it!
I would imagine that this problem would have had to come up before in the long history of doomsday, or at least I HOPE it has.. Maybe it's a mac thing? This is the only app or game I've ever encountered this with.. ANY help with this would be VERY appreciated, thank you.
What is the issue and how do I fix it? I never had this problem on my previous macbook from a few years ago. I don't have this problem on the newest version of doomsday but I definitely prefer 1.9.9 for the options and simplicity - oh and the newest version won't recognize my heretic.wad file - I've tried a few different ones to see if it was a problem with the wad itself but no luck - doomsday 2.1.1 says it's missing the data files and I can't see any options to try to fix it other than the directory option.) So I would much rather prefer to stick with 1.9.9 if I can. I have no idea what could possibly cause this!? Oh and doesn't start until I actually touch the trackpad. It will just sit there but once my finger even grazes the trackpad it goes crazy, even if I stop touching it!
I would imagine that this problem would have had to come up before in the long history of doomsday, or at least I HOPE it has.. Maybe it's a mac thing? This is the only app or game I've ever encountered this with.. ANY help with this would be VERY appreciated, thank you.
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One thing you could try is going to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy tab > Accessibility, and enabling Doomsday to have permission to control the computer.
If you don't use the trackpad as a game control, you could try disabling mouse input. I don't recall off the top of my head how that was done in 1.9.9 (apart from the "-nomouse" command line option), but in the newer versions there are toggles in the taskbar > ⚙️ > Input settings.
When it comes to your Heretic.wad, you may have a version of the WAD that is unsupported or just unknown to Doomsday. In 2.1, you can now configure a custom game profile to launch with any IWAD. This is done by creating a game profile in the game library and clicking on the "Data File: Default game data" button to select which IWAD to use.
Also, I tried the security & privacy thing u mentioned and it appears that doomsday was already in the list of apps that can control my computer - both under accessibility and 'full disk access.'
Is there no other fix for this issue? I can't possibly be the first and only unlucky user who's had this problem!?
Give that a shot; hopefully that will get you your mouse control back.
We weren't initially sure if we'd have to re-install or not so I'm just posting this message for future reference for users of Doomsday on Mojave.
Hope OP sorted their problem out.