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    Default Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    Hi people,

    I have a problem actually since a few years already. Since MTW2 Patch 1.2 maybe, but I don't know if it's related to a patch anyway.

    I can't drag formations with the right mouse button. It just clicks on the point so that a unit only moves there without the desired formation. That's so annoying.

    Any solution?

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    Default Re: Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    Disregard, my mistake.
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    Unforgivable! Just like crusades on Antioch...

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    Have you assigned them into a group by chance? When units are assigned in a group they will retain the formation they were in when you formed the group.
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    Default Re: Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    Sorry I mean only one unit. What I mean is selecting a unit with the left button and then dragging it to a desired lenght or width with the right button. I can't do that in my game. It seems that my game only recognises the first right click but not the dragging afterwards. yes and I am holding the right button thereby.
    Last edited by magma; July 05, 2009 at 03:20 PM.

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    Default Re: Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    Are you using any mods at all?
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    mods shouldn't affect it

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    Atm I'm playing only Broken Crescent, but as far as I remember it occured also with Kingdoms. It tends to be more when the game lags a bit but I am not sure about that. I will test this out. Yesterday surprisingly it didn't happen at all while I was playing BC. I am wondering also that nobody else has this problem.

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    Default Re: Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    do you have show_battle_markers = 1 or true or similar in the .cfg?

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    Default Re: Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    Could you show a pic, all of this guy's have helped you but I would like to see pic when you do it.

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    Default Re: Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    Here's what I'd do:

    Check your mouse button is working - Open MS Paint, and draw with the Right button (Note. The default 'ink' for the right button is white! Change it by Right clicking the palette at the bottom). If it doesn't work, I'd buy a new mouse, however, you may want to try the following, just in case...
    Check for and, if any, install new mouse drivers.
    If it's a USB mouse unplug everything except for the mouse, and keyboard. It's probably a good idea to do a restart, and then try TW... Still no good...
    I'm not sure which route I'd take next, not knowing your machine, you could try closing down as many background tasks as you dare, including anti-virus, firewall etc, or go for a reinstall of Total War. I'd be doing both, I just don't know which way is suitable for you.
    If that doesn't work, I'd be reinstalling Windows, drivers and TW, nothing else.
    If that doesnt work, you may well have a hardware error, probably motherboard, which will cost money... There is also the question of how old is your PC? it maybe that it is just too creaky to play Med2...

    Hope something helps, and I do hope it's not hardware!

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    Default Re: Can't drag formations with right mouse button

    First of all thanks for your help.
    @miniwally: I haven't got such an entry neither in the MTW2 cfg nor in the brokencrescent cfg.
    @artist from bruges: It's not really possible to show this on a picture, but I could upload a picture to support what I mean.
    @zzzms: I tried that with paint. It works as it should. I am quite sure that itīs not a hardware malfunction. I could reinstall MTW2 again but as far as I remember I had this also with former installations. But I will reinstall the game in the next days when nothing else helps. I am playing on a laptop with Core2Duo 2.0 Ghz and Ati 3650. The game runs mostly smooth only few lags. I will ckeck if it's related only to lags.

    One addition. Instead of changing unit length or width with the right button it comes only one click as I said or also often many clicks in series but not the dragging.

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