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Yes this is my next port of call. RTS swing is too slow and feels insensitive in-game ATM (with accompanying lack of good clubhead speed at RTS) so I will be indeed looking at seeing the mouse sensitivity parameters being applied. That and getting Links to output as higher a resolution as it possible before scaling to the monitor. I may experiment with both fullscreen and windowed to see what looks best. Sunday will see a good testing session.
Actually seeing the stuff about mouse senstivity dpi and what is meant by 'native' (that is one of the settings in the configuration ini) it had me looking at my Razer Deathadder and the numbers I was setting within Razer Synapse. To cut a long story short I've decided to use 800dpi (or a multiple of it i.e. 1600/3200). So for Links (and for Perfect Golf) I'm using 3200 dpi and this feels right on my monitor and more importantly appears to involve no 'interpolation'. Maybe a placebo but the recent session I've just finished has seen CHS of between 110-120.3 mph in Links 2003 with the driver.Tweed & Whisky wrote: ↑January 31st, 2026, 10:31 am Providing you can control your mouse hardware I've found settings of 800dpi and polling/report rate @125hz is the sweet spot for RTS (Elite skill level difficulty).
I've noticed that resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 makes RTS feel less intuitive, I wonder if this was the highest res the game was originally programmed for and RTS calibrated to?
What got me thinking along these lines was noticing the Microsoft B75-00001 IntelliMouse Explorer featured in the Links manual: a 400dpi, 1500fps, 125hz model (released in '99 apparently). I assumed the programmers were using them in development.Mailman wrote: ↑January 31st, 2026, 6:06 pmActually seeing the stuff about mouse senstivity dpi and what is meant by 'native' (that is one of the settings in the configuration ini) it had me looking at my Razer Deathadder and the numbers I was setting within Razer Synapse. To cut a long story short I've decided to use 800dpi (or a multiple of it i.e. 1600/3200). So for Links (and for Perfect Golf) I'm using 3200 dpi and this feels right on my monitor and more importantly appears to involve no 'interpolation'. Maybe a placebo but the recent session I've just finished has seen CHS of between 110-120.3 mph in Links 2003 with the driver.Tweed & Whisky wrote: ↑January 31st, 2026, 10:31 am Providing you can control your mouse hardware I've found settings of 800dpi and polling/report rate @125hz is the sweet spot for RTS (Elite skill level difficulty).
I've noticed that resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 makes RTS feel less intuitive, I wonder if this was the highest res the game was originally programmed for and RTS calibrated to?
I also had to set the resolution in the Links registry back to where it should be @ display mode 14 (1920x1080) and it has scaled up to fill my (2560x1440) monitor nicely now with a 1.33 scaling factor (no black bars). Also managed to work out the fade/draw for the RTS swing after all these years - yell if anyone wants details
I've just PMd Pete and his method is the same - playing a FLOP shot in click mode (in practice round), selecting a club, unchecking this shot only, changing the stance etc. Next time you start (changing to RTS mode) with the same player, selecting the FLOP shot gives the parameters shot previously in the click mode.
