Re: TIR 4 Pro disapointment!
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:33 am
I completely understand your frustration and disappointment Dewey. I am also quadriplegic and have used TIR since it was invented. I had a TIR 3 and was really bummed when the 4.x software came out and mouse emulation had been severely crippled compared to 3.x.
I was told, as you are being told now, that I needed to switch to the SmartNav. So I bought a SmartNav 3 (the 4 wasn't out at the time) only to find that the software was even worse than the TIR at the time. I play a lot of first person shooter games and I couldn't get the SmartNav under control in any of my fps games. It was either spinning out of control or so slow I could barely move the cursor. Nothing in between. I ended up using the TIR 3.x software with my SmartNav hardware and was happy as could be.
Now I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and can no longer use the TIR 3.x software. I tried the final 4.x build but it is still clumsy and does not respond in most of my games or on the desktop. The 3.x software was the best version natural point ever released. It worked in ANY game and ANY application.
It had been a few years since I tried the actual SmartNav software but I had to now because of my OS and TIR 4.x being so horrible. To my surprise it has gotten a lot better. It is very smooth and accurate but has one major flaw. It can't auto pan. So I can't look to the left or right edge and have my view continue to spin until I'm looking in the direction I want to go then proceed like I could with the old TIR 3.x software in Win XP.
I brought this to NaturalPoint Mike's attention in a different thread back in May. They might look into adding this feature that was in TIR 3.x to a future version of the SmartNav software, but no promises of course. I hope they do very soon because as things stand I can't play FPS games anywhere near as well as I could.
I still don't really understand why such a seemingly simple feature could not remain in the current software.
Bob
I was told, as you are being told now, that I needed to switch to the SmartNav. So I bought a SmartNav 3 (the 4 wasn't out at the time) only to find that the software was even worse than the TIR at the time. I play a lot of first person shooter games and I couldn't get the SmartNav under control in any of my fps games. It was either spinning out of control or so slow I could barely move the cursor. Nothing in between. I ended up using the TIR 3.x software with my SmartNav hardware and was happy as could be.
Now I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and can no longer use the TIR 3.x software. I tried the final 4.x build but it is still clumsy and does not respond in most of my games or on the desktop. The 3.x software was the best version natural point ever released. It worked in ANY game and ANY application.
It had been a few years since I tried the actual SmartNav software but I had to now because of my OS and TIR 4.x being so horrible. To my surprise it has gotten a lot better. It is very smooth and accurate but has one major flaw. It can't auto pan. So I can't look to the left or right edge and have my view continue to spin until I'm looking in the direction I want to go then proceed like I could with the old TIR 3.x software in Win XP.
I brought this to NaturalPoint Mike's attention in a different thread back in May. They might look into adding this feature that was in TIR 3.x to a future version of the SmartNav software, but no promises of course. I hope they do very soon because as things stand I can't play FPS games anywhere near as well as I could.
I still don't really understand why such a seemingly simple feature could not remain in the current software.
Bob