PC Video Game Driver Issue [closed]

Question

I only titled this "PC Video Game Driver Issue" because I didn't know what else to ask.

Here's the problem, I've tried installing Borderlands & Singularity & gotten the same problem with both games, (if I can explain this correctly) the "view" of the 1st person character (myself) ALWAYS moves to the top of the screen. As if you've moved your mouse up so that your looking straight into the sky. Whenever you move the mouse down, (effecting the view of your character) the view of said character moves directly back to the sky.

It's not the easiest question for me to put into words. I've done a LOT of research on-line & found not one other person with this issue. I'm probably explaining it wrong.

I know both these games were "made for" Nvidia cards/drivers, is that the problem? I've read many others who play these games with Radeon so I can't believe that.

Any help would be appreciated.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz 2GB DDR2 Radeon HD4350 Catalyst 10.7 500GB HD 75% Full Windows 7 Ultimate

Anything else needed to know please ask.

EDIT I also have a Microsoft wireless mouse with the IntelliPoint driver & Logitech wireless keyboard & mouse combo with the SetPoint driver & Xbox 360 controller & driver & Xpadder 5.7 for those games that don't support joypads.

I've tried EVERY combination of ON-OFF diver-mouse-xpadder-no xpadder but it ALWAYS ends up with the exact same video issue.

Every other game plays fine. COD MW 1 & 2, Farcry 2, Fallout 3, LEGO Indy 2, etc etc etc

Answer 1

I doubt that with ~30% of the market share, popular games like Borderlands would outright ignore ATI and create incompatibilities that would make the game unplayable. Your issue sounds like it has nothing to do with the video driver at all. If you have this problem across multiple games, it's far more likely it's a problem with your mouse.

Try connecting a different mouse and see if that works; or, you can try upgrading mouse drivers.

However, it's worth noting that you're hardware isn't really in any business to handle a modern game like Borderlands (no offense), so that might be your problem. Your graphics card is basically the absolute minimum quality for this game, so if you're playing at anything other than low detail, low res you may have any number of problems.

Answer 2

I don't think it's a problem with your video card or driver. According to your question, the graphics are okay.

What's not okay is the direction your character is looking. If you move your mouse up, the character looks up. This mouse movement seems to be "active" even when you don't move the mouse. So the problem is either with the mouse, or with the game's control settings.

Try a different mouse, or try the same mouse on a different USB port.

Try to remove all other USB devices. Perhaps one of the devices is sending these "look up" signals.

Check your game's control settings if there is any keyboard key assigned to "look up".