Playing p99 with Repetitive stress injury

[brobot02]

So mouse and keyboard are off the table for me, its just too painful and only gets worse the more i push it, (ive tried several mouse alternatives, none of them work). I would imagine lots of the aging population who play will have this problem eventually. Does anyone have a work around? Ive been trying unsuccessfully to get a controller to work. Is this the end for me? What if lots of people start having this issue? Tough luck? Does the cheat blocker work against xpadder? It doesnt seem to be working for me. This is my favorite game I really hope the devs or community have some options.

Thank you!

[Skarne]

Physical therapy for a year try again after

[brobot02]

Originally Posted by Skarne [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Physical therapy for a year try again after

I don't have an issue with it unless I'm using keyboard and mouse, they simply are not ergonomic so that wouldn't help thanks tho

[Skarne]

Sry I thought with some rest and gradual exercise ye could improve. If it’s a chronic issue I’m not sure about how to bind EQ controls to a controller.

[loramin]

P.S. You can play EQ with a Steam controller (it has enough buttons and you can bind them to any keyboard key); I've done it. The only tricky part is that (at least on Linux) you have to start the Steam software before running EQ, otherwise it won't work.

But even if you switch, if you don't address your underlying ergonomics problems, you're just going to have new arm/wrist pain within weeks.

[Gustoo]

Good luck OP. Game is designed around mouse clicks. So one joystick could be your mouse, one is your forward back strafe left strife right

And figure out a way to macro enough stuff to get by in the game, and a screen angle changer button. It's a lot of buttons even if you get the third party software working

[plzrelax]

I have been able to play P99 using my PS4 controller using both joy2key for mapping the buttons and DS4Windows to get the touchpad to work the way I want it to.

My experience with it is mostly messing around with a cleric in unrest. But I think playing a monk or something would have felt more comfortable

[brobot02]

Originally Posted by plzrelax [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have been able to play P99 using my PS4 controller using both joy2key for mapping the buttons and DS4Windows to get the touchpad to work the way I want it to.

My experience with it is mostly messing around with a cleric in unrest. But I think playing a monk or something would have felt more comfortable

recently? and thank you this is exactly the kind of response im looking for. I dont have any RSI from using a controller, only a mouse, using a controller is quite comfortable, I just wasnt having luck getting xpadder to work so this could be an alternative

[mcoy]

You mentioned the "wrist twist" that makes a regular mouse difficult - have you tried a vertical mouse?

-Mcoy

[brobot02]

Originally Posted by mcoy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You mentioned the "wrist twist" that makes a regular mouse difficult - have you tried a vertical mouse?

-Mcoy

yes