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Is there a way to use arrow keys to look around and control direction (instead of the mouse).

The mouse in Skyrim is quite messed up. I tweaked it to be more responsive (because the default settings are horrible). But now the screen jitters as I move around (cause my mouse movements are not totally smooth.)

It would be really nice for normal walking around to use keys and just use the mouse in combat.

Is there a way to do this? WASD for walking and Arrow Keys for looking?

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There's no way to remap the mouse movement to keys, since it's a completely different control type (x/y-axis versus keypress). You might want to consider using a PC-compatible gamepad if the mouse control is that bad. – SevenSidedDie Nov 23 '11 at 0:30
I use my 360 controller, and it works fantastically, with mods to enable more hotkeys of course. – Eric Nov 23 '11 at 5:11

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No, this is not possible. The movement of a mouse has several variables (speed, direction, etc) that cannot be directly simulated by the four arrow keys.

You may want to try updating to v1.2, which is supposed to fix some mouse issues. (Source)

Also, try disabling mouse acceleration if you haven't already.

  1. Open your SkyrimPrefs.ini file in My Documents\My Games\Skyrim
  2. Modify bMouseAcceleration=1 to be bMouseAcceleration=0

Some people have also reported some mouse improvement from disabling VSync, though it's not generally recommended due to graphical glitches

  1. Open your SkyrimPrefs.ini file in My Documents\My Games\Skyrim
  2. Add iPresentInterval=0 to the bottom of the [Display] section
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