Haven't played in a couple months. Unable to highlight stars reliably in galaxy map. What changed?

Putok

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So, between finals, a trip abroad, and moving in with my girlfriend, I haven't really had much free time to play ED over the past few months. I participated briefly in the PP beta, which was where I first encountered this problem.

It seems even worse now. 99% of the time, hovering my mouse over a star in the galaxy map will not select it. Has the way the galaxy map works changed? Is there some new option I need to tick/untick? It just took me 10+ minutes to plot a 1,000 ly route because of difficulty highlighting systems.
 

DNYI

DNYI
Yes there has been changes to the galaxy map. There are options to switch between realistic mode (it shows star color and size but seems very finicky to select a system), map mode (known to players that played before v1.3 as classic mode), and powerplay mode (shows powers spheres of influence but seems to have the most trouble selecting systems that are not control points, expansion targets, headquarters, etc). I find that map mode/classic mode is the best bet for selecting a system, but the changes to the galaxy map do seem to make it less likely to render systems outside of a certain radius from the point you rotate your view around. Moving that point close to where you want to go will help. Also, if you hadn't noticed, in the system map, they changed were the info/command overlay appears when you select a planet/star/moon/asteroid belt/station/outpost. The new change makes it so that the overlay will often be on top of other selectable bodies, and thus prevents you from selecting them without first having to select something else first.
 

Putok

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Ok, I have absolutely NO idea why, but turning off hardware cursor and V-sync seems to have helped. I can't even begin to speculate as to why that would be the case, but problem solved?
 

DNYI

DNYI
Putok said:
Ok, I have absolutely NO idea why, but turning off hardware cursor and V-sync seems to have helped. I can't even begin to speculate as to why that would be the case, but problem solved?
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wow, that is really interesting! I wouldn't have thought to try that.
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
Putok said:
Ok, I have absolutely NO idea why, but turning off hardware cursor and V-sync seems to have helped. I can't even begin to speculate as to why that would be the case, but problem solved?
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Check your framerate (CTRL+F?), mouse lags are very likely if you dont have constant FPS and vsync enabled.
 
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