So, I take you never received an answer to this problem? I am trying this out with LOTRO and having similar issues. I have tried to add the following to my vmx file:
vmmouse.present = "FALSE"
However, this does not appear to resolve the problem. I have also tried uninstalling the VMWare mouse driver and just using the Microsoft generic PS2 driver. Oddly,even in this configuration my mouse is still able to enter and leave the VM and is still being ungrabbed and re-grabbed just as if the VMWare driver were still active even though device manager shows otherwise (I did this since I had read a post that indicated this would esolve the problem at the sacrifice of auto grab/ungrab).
Unlike your description of the behaviour you are seeing though, I am able to right click in game and that part seems to work as expected regardless of the state of the " never optimize mouse for games" setting. In fact, checking or unchecking this does not seem to change anything.
It would seem that there should be a solution to this issue with the appropriate settings and tweks, but I am not having any joy in my efforts to date...
Any ideas would be appreaciated...
Cheers.
UPDATE: After a fair amount of additional testing, I have been able to resolve
this problem for playing LOTRO (and I would imagine for most 3D games,
FPS, etc...). As it turns out, I ended up doing a number of things and
I am not sure exactly which ones finally resolved the problem, however
I am satisfied with this as a workable solution until the vmware driver
for the mouse is updated to work correctly with games. So, here are the
changes I made to get VMWare 6.5.1 working with the latest version of
LOTRO:
Added the following to my vmx file:
mks.enable3d = "TRUE" <--- This is actually added through the settings in the GUI via a checkbox, but it is required
svga.vramSize = "134217728" <--- This sets the video memory to 128M (max) you can use "67108864" for 64M (better if you have less physical mem)
vmmouse.present = "FALSE" <--- This changes the behavior of the mouse and is likely the ultimate solution, but this alone did not seem to fix it for me
usb.present = "FALSE" <--- After disabling all the USE pieces from the GUI I also changed this setting in the vmx file to false from true
I also uninstalled the vmware mouse driver and installed the MS generic PS2 driver.
Along with a couple of reboots and testing in between, I was able to get LOTRO to work as expected. The video is reasonable and the mouse behavior is as expected.
The only unusual thing that I find is that I am not able to adjust the
gamma, or brightness in game and the default levels are very low. If I
jack the levels up on the native OS of course then it works fine, or if
I start an instance of LOTRO on the native OS (it has the settings the
way I prefer them) then the VM session will inherit the adjustments.
But, the in game settings from the VM are non functional either in
windowed or full screen mode. In windowed they cannot be moved at all
and in full screen they move but have no effect. Not a big deal in the
scheme of things, but still an anomaly worth noting...
Cheers,
Message was edited by: izy
