Improper mouse sensitivity in Risen 2: Dark Waters

Improper mouse sensitivity in Risen 2: Dark Waters
I just downloaded Risen 2: Dark Waters from Steam and started playing it. I have kept the control settings of my game to default. After playing for some time, I realized that mouse sensitivity was not proper in this game. Moving the pointer sideways worked normally. But when moving up and down, the mouse seemed stiff and I am having problem moving it. It seems like that up and down movements are half the sped of mouse movements in sideways. I changed the sensitivity settings for horizontal and vertical movements, but nothing helped. Can someone tell me what I can do?

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29-04-2012
LotusN
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Re: Improper mouse sensitivity in Risen 2: Dark Waters
This is a known issue in this game and many people have complained about it. You can change the mouse sensitivity from the game settings as well as from control panel, but it won’t help much and still you will notice the difference in smoothness. The ratio of horizontal and vertical smoothness is 1:3 for Risen 2: Dark Waters. It means that if dragging mouse for 5 centimeters horizontally will move it 30 centimeters on screen, then in vertical movement, dragging mouse for 5 cm vertically will move it 10 cm on screen.

You will need to edit this setting from the configuration file in the game’s system files. You must be logged in the computer as an administrator to perform this, go at C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\risen 2. There you must find %AppData%\Local\Config\ConfigUser.xml, the ConfigDefault.xml to get the configuration file for Risen 2: Dark Waters. In this file you will need to change values of SensitivityX and SensitivityY. You need to set the values as SensitivityX="1.0f" and SensitivityY="0.33f". This will maintain the 1:3 ratios as well as sort out the problem of improper mouse sensitivity in risen 2: Dark Waters.