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This is something that had driven me absolutely nuts. When I started playing Fallout 3 on Tuesday, I decided that it would make sense to map the V.A.T.S. key, which defaults to “V”, to my mouse 4 button instead. After all, I bought this nice fancy mouse specifically so I could do stuff like that. It’s a pain in the ass to struggle looking for the “V” key to pause the game while you’re being shot at or while a Deathclaw is rushing up on you.<\/p>\n

The first night I played Fallout 3, I perused the above menu, selected “V.A.T.S. Targeting”, and tried to hit the mouse 4 button. It just wouldn’t work. Crap<\/em>, I thought. And I eventually decided it wasn’t possible. I even Googled it later, and found people on forums complaining about the same thing.<\/p>\n

Last night, I found out how to do it. See that “Device” key at the bottom right? Yeah – I’d mostly ignored it too. When you click that, it gives you a slightly different menu in which the “Keyboard” text at the top changes to “Mouse’, and you’re able to map controls to the mouse. Viola. Hopefully the next person who Googles this problem ends up here instead and finds their solution. So now I’ve got my mouse 4 button mapped to start V.A.T.S. and my mouse wheel set up to use items. For what will I use my mouse 5 button? I’ve yet to decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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