Mouse drivers? Netscroll 120

2009-09-13 10:37:48 am

Yes, Inexistence is a word.

Hey guys. I've tried out some different games to what I usually play lately, notably Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Deus Ex, though the problem occurred in Half Life also, so I assume it is basically 'older' games, though I'm not sure.

The problem is that whenever I move my mouse in those games, very slow mouse movements work okay, but if I move it a little quicker, it will go insanely fast in the direction. It's almost like it accelerates more than standard mouse acceleration, basically 50x as much. I was a competitive TF2 player, and so I did the advised removing of mouse acceleration altogether, meaning registry edits and all, so that may be a possible cause?

I'd like to have some other input on this, just to wonder? My mouse is quite a standard, non-gaming mouse, a Genius Netscroll 120. I tried looking for drivers for it (I'd not previously installed any, since the mouse seemed to work fine without), but I couldn't find any at all.

Honestly, any help for this would be great, thanks guys. Cheesy

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Hey guys. I've tried out some different games to what I usually play lately, notably Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Deus Ex, though the problem occurred in Half Life also, so I assume it is basically 'older' games, though I'm not sure.

The problem is that whenever I move my mouse in those games, very slow mouse movements work okay, but if I move it a little quicker, it will go insanely fast in the direction. It's almost like it accelerates more than standard mouse acceleration, basically 50x as much. I was a competitive TF2 player, and so I did the advised removing of mouse acceleration altogether, meaning registry edits and all, so that may be a possible cause?

I'd like to have some other input on this, just to wonder? My mouse is quite a standard, non-gaming mouse, a Genius Netscroll 120. I tried looking for drivers for it (I'd not previously installed any, since the mouse seemed to work fine without), but I couldn't find any at all.

Honestly, any help for this would be great, thanks guys. :D

ballofsnow

2009-09-13 11:48:33 am

You used a registry editor to disable mouse acceleration? Wouldn't it be easier to go to control panel -> mouse -> pointer options -> uncheck Enhance pointer precision ?

honorableJay

2009-09-13 01:07:18 pm

The Dork Knight himself.

1) Have you overclocked your usb polling rate to 500hz or above? If you have, try dropping it down to 250/125 and see if the problem goes away.

2) Are you sure you edited the right keys in the registry? Maybe the settings you changed affect that mouse differently than other mice. Try reverting the changes (uninstall/reinstall the mouse is probably the quickest) and see if that helps the wicked accel. Then use the control panel mouse properties to remove the pointer accel. If that doesn't work at all, the mouse itself might not like Half-Life 2.

3) Check to see that you've disabled "Mouse Smoothing" in HL2. For really old mice it's good, but if yours is really 800dpi then it doesn't need it.

ridd3r.

2009-09-13 02:10:27 pm

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You used a registry editor to disable mouse acceleration? Wouldn't it be easier to go to control panel -> mouse -> pointer options -> uncheck Enhance pointer precision ?

That does not remove mouse acceleration completely so I imagine thats why he did it the "thorough" way. I personally have not done that, I'v just done it through control panel and stuck with it but I fail to see how disabling mouse acceleration could have that effect. How confident are you that you did it right? Also do you have access to any other computer to see if it works with your mouse there?

Inexistence

2009-09-13 02:38:47 pm

Yes, Inexistence is a word.

Thanks for the responses guys, I'll try to answer as well as I can.

Yeah, I edited the registry since unchecking mouse acceleration doesn't fully remove it. I've checked that I did it correctly and it's all fine.

Also, my mouse is a PS/2 mouse, not a USB one, and I have no idea about overclocking any polling rates or dpi or anything, it's just a standard ps/2 mouse, no gaming settings or anything.

I removed the mouse changes in the registry, tried it, still the same. Also, HL2 works fine, it seems to just be older games like Half Life 1 and Deus Ex.

I don't have another computer to test it on, so it's not really an option at this time. It worked fine on Half Life 1 before I reformatted my computer, now it seems to mess up all the time and it's really annoying.

I'm thinking of just buying a proper gaming mouse, since I've needed one for a while, though of course I'd much prefer to have this issue resolved. Anyone have any ideas?

honorableJay

2009-09-14 05:02:29 am

The Dork Knight himself.

Ah, I didn't notice the mouse was ps/2 only when I looked it up online for specs. Open up your control panel > mouse settings. On the last tab (I believe going to device manager and opening up the mouse properties will do the same thing) should show you the "PS/2 Mouse reporting speed." It's basically how fast the mouse is allowed to talk to the system. The standard is really low, but I know a lot of people have cranked it to around 200+ for a smoother feel. With some mice this causes some really weird issues, and in other it simply lags the mouse (PS/2 IIRC is heavily cpu dependant so cranking it adds in mouse lag).

Inexistence

2009-09-14 10:27:05 am

Yes, Inexistence is a word.

Thanks a lot for mentioning that. I'd never looked at that mouse tab, and there was the option to update the mouse drivers. I chose that and it was able to find and update the drivers. Much easier than the time I spent looking for the drivers :P. Everything's fixed now, the games run perfectly fine, and it seems to have fixed the problem of them speeding up and running faster than they were before. Thankyou!