INTRODUCTION

 SETUP

SCREEN SETUP
RED / BLUE 3D | 3D HEADGEAR

SOUND SETUP

KEY DEFINITIONS

CONTROL SETUP
INVERT MOUSE Y-AXIS | AIM VERTICAL SENSITIVITY

COMM SETUP | MISCELLANEOUS

SHADOW WARRIOR OPTIONS | BLOOD OPTIONS

CONFIG UPDATER | CONTROLLER TIPS | MOUSE LOOK | BUILD MOUSE (VERTICAL Y-AXIS)

R.T.C.M. DOWNLOADS

The .CFG File stores all your preferences and settings for the game to read from. Some settings can be changed on the fly within the game itself. Most have to be changed in SETUP.EXE prior to launching the game. Sometimes SETUP.EXE and the Game.exe lack some menu options that can be changed in the .CFG file manually with notepad that the game will support.

For Duke3D users, make sure you also read the DN3DHELP.EXE file that's installed with Duke Nukem 3D and contains configuration technical information.

The table below represents Duke3D's .CFG file. However I included color coded information for other games. Like SW , RR , Blood. The NAM and WWIIGI games should have the same configuration or very close to Duke3D's.

ALL downloads related to the controllers can be found here: "general-controllers"

Controllers supported: Virtually all. If you find your controller is not directly supported, most users will be able to configure a decent controller correctly. Some may require external programs for the supplied controller.
All buttons can be reconfigured to your liking.
(Please note not all controls are available in pre 1.2 versions of duke3d)

-Joystick v1.3d

• Duke Nukem 3D deathmatching is extremely fast moving. Set your speeds to the maximums (90) or you are a sitting duke. Also, you are able to move faster than a keyboard or mouse/keyboard player. Their maximums are 80. Enjoy exploiting that advantage (and don't tell them). However most will find the mouse/keyboard most effective in multiplayer, the joystick holds it own in single player mode.
• Duke Nukem 3D has a ton of features in comparison to any other 3D shooter. To minimize your keyboard-hunting time, get a joystick with a lot of buttons. The Sidewinder 3D Pro, The ThrustMaster FCS and the WingMan Extreme have 8 each and the CH CombatStick has 14 The more buttons you have access to, the more deadly you will become.
• The Look Left and Look Right buttons come in very handy in situations where you want to push a switch in front of you and at the same time be looking down the hallway. Near the end of Episode 2 there is a nice door that you can easily open and close on the onslaught of Sentry Drones while at the same time keeping an eye on them approaching. Try setting your HATs Left and Right functions for this.
• The Jetpack button is a very nice button to have available for easy access. This converts a hair-raising experience of falling and madly hunting for the J key into an a simple emotionless finger-flick. Try setting the Jet pack on one of your joysticks base buttons.
• The Medkit button is a very nice button to also have available for easy access. It's almost like having 300% health. Try setting the Medkit on one of your joysticks base buttons.
• Consider having individual buttons for your favorite Items and remove the Inventory Select and Inventory Use buttons. In typical deathmatching, having the Jetpack, the Medkit, the Steroids and the Holoduke all as individual buttons is extremely effective. Since the Inventory Left and Inventory Right buttons will wrap around, there isn't a need to assign both to your joystick. This saves a button for another feature.
• There are two Jump buttons. The first is the standard Duke Jump button and the second is called Jump Forward. The later button is actually a macro. When you press this button, you both jump up and move forward at full speed (for a fraction of a second). There is no longer a need to coordinate moving forward with jumping. This makes it much easier to jump onto boxes, ledges, etc. The disadvantage is that if you want to go straight up with the jetpack, you will need to pull the joystick handle backwards as you travel up. The default is the Jump Forward button. Try both and choose the one you like.
• Aiming Up and Aiming Down allow you to more precisely aim your weapons. One particularly brutal combination is to fire grenades down onto the ground while flying with the Jetpack. Even if you miss your opponent, there is a good chance that the blast is going to be very, very close and painful if not deadly.
  Try setting your HAT UP and DOWN switches for Aiming. Its a bit crude with analog but it works. If you find the HAT to lacking, set your X and Y axis as AIMING and your HAT for forward and strafe. (If your game supports this second method)
• Having a joystick with a throttle or having a Speed Toggle button easily allows you to switch between Medium and Fast speeds. This allows you to drop into a slower speed for traversing difficult areas like a narrow ledge. Try setting your throttle for run/walk.
  

-Keyboard

• Each key on your keyboard can control 2 things, have your shoot key also activate your portable med kit. This way, during a heated battle you don't have to worry about finding it and activating it.
• If your down on ammo and you need an extra "Kick," try this: select Duke's kick as your weapon.
  Now press Ctrl(fire) and ~(quickkick) together. Duke will kick with both feet. This is a great way to kill your enemies faster or get the most out of your steroids. During mutli-play, the opponent will only see ONE leg kicking at him. This double kicking method doesn't work on the Atomic versions.

-(for Duke3D. there are similar settings available for other games)

To get 'mouse look' to the default settings:

• Delete or rename your config file and run setup.exe and select Keyboard and Mouse with-OUT assigning any movement. This will give or restore your mouse look to the defaults allowing you to turn it on or off with the U key.

This will set:

•  MouseAnalogAxes0 = "analog_turning"   and   MouseAnalogAxes1 = "analog_moving" and other values at default.

Mouse Look has no other settings than those listed below.

Mouse Movement Sensitivity:

• MouseSensitivity = 32768 (This setting equals an actual value of 1.00 in setup.exe) Response and speed from mouse input along the Horizontal X-Axis. (This is the value that changes when manipulated with the Adjust Sensitivity keys in-game and it ONLY adjusts the left to right mouse movement).
• MouseAnalogScale0 = 65536 This is the Left to Right Aiming (When the U key is used) Acceleration and Speed setting for the Mouse X Axis Scale.
• MouseAnalogScale1 = 65536 This is the Up and Down Aiming (When the U key is used) Acceleration and Speed setting for the Mouse Y Axis Scale , (This is NOT set by the in-game Adjust Sensitivity (MouseSensitivity) which only works for the Horizontal.) Try a value of 72089 here in connection with mouse look to gain better Y-Axis response. It's assumed that the game will read this setting on its own.

Mouse Aiming Settings:

• MouseAiming = 0 Mouse Aiming is a toggle button (for all the time mouse look, set to 0), OR as momentary button. (If you want to hold down the U Key, set to 1)
• MouseAimingFlipped = 0 Reverse or flip the Y-Axis of your mouse No(0) / Yes(1) (0 might work for you, if not flip it with 1) (For Duke3D v1.3D see the entry in the table above for instructions) (For RR use the 'MouseFlip' setting instead.)
• GameMouseAiming = 1 (still unsure what this does, keep it at the default 1, for RR use 0)
• AimingFlag = 1 (This will start the game as if you already hit the U key) (RR doesn't have an equivalent to this)

It's known that BUILD Games Blood, Duke3D, Shadow Warrior and Redneck Rampage only update one axis at a time. Also the Vertical (Up and Down) movement (Y-axis) tends to be slower in response than the horizontal (X-axis).

There are currently three options to fix these issues:

• See 'MouseAnalogScale1' setting in your games CFG file and set that to your liking to improve response and speed (This does not cure the lack of updating of both axis at the same time).
• There also is the 'Build Mouse Fix Tool' that patches the game.exe with a new mouse algorithm. (This patcher apparently fixes response speed by way of the in-game Adjust Sensitivity key setting, (MouseSensitivity), it adjusts BOTH X and Y axis at the same time).
• And then there's bMouse, that will Fix response and updating both axis at the same time. BMOUSE is a custom Mouse Look enhancer driver that replaces the games built-in programming with an external 'driver' (download this driver).

The BMOUSE Archive includes a rather comprehensive readme, however I will try to expand on it. Read the following.
-(bMouse) by Mark Dochtermann and Modified and Improved by SwissCM-

Running bMouse through SETUP.EXE:

• Copy BMOUSE.EXE to your games root directory.
• Run your game's SETUP.EXE program.
• Next select  "Controller Setup"  then choose  "Controller Type"  and select "Keyboard and External"
• Now select  "Setup External"  and select  "Change External Program Name," change it to "BMOUSE.EXE"
• Hit ENTER after you typed in BMOUSE.EXE and then hit the ESC key twice.
• Next select  "Save and Launch" your game.
• Play the Game, Play with your mouse.

Then return to SETUP.EXE and adjust the sensitive scales to your liking using the following steps:

• Select  "Controller Setup"  then  "Setup Advanced Control Options"  finely select  "Advanced Mouse Setup."
• You'll see that there is a Axis Scale setting for the X and Y axis's in the Analog Setup area. Choose one you want to modify.
• Now slide the bar to where you think you need it to be with the keyboard arrow keys. ENTER Key Accepts when your done.
• Move onto the other axis and repeat the previous step.
• Now hit the ESC Key three times and select  "Save and Launch" your game.
• Play the Game, Play with your mouse.

Note:
You must run the game through SETUP.EXE each time you want to play the game with bMouse enabled, OR better yet you can create a Batch file with notepad, such as the following, (using Shadow Warrior as an example):

SW.BAT
bmouse launch sw.exe

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