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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: llama on January 12, 2008, 07:40:05 PM

Title: Mouse Pointer Speed Weirdness with MacBook Pro in AH
Post by: llama on January 12, 2008, 07:40:05 PM

So here's a weird one...

A friend of mine uses a MacBook Pro and Boot Camp to play AH, and it generally works fine, but the mouse is all wonky.

The cursor, which works with a normal speed under Windows and other DX games, acts like, well, it is hard to describe. Imagine you're dragging the cursor through maple syrup. You move your finger on the glidepad at a constant rate, but the cursor starts really slow, then goes really fast, and then when you take your finger off the glidepad, the cursor seems to slow to a stop rather than stopping immediately.

So my questions are:

- anyone else ever see this?

- if you saw it, ever fix it?

- if you fixed it, how'd ya do it?

I'd be especially interested in hearing from other Mac users.

Thanks,
Llama

Title: Mouse Pointer Speed Weirdness with MacBook Pro in AH
Post by: Rolex on January 12, 2008, 07:55:26 PM

A usb mouse would be a good idea. Bypasses the notoriously finicky Mac trackpads and gives him the right click functions for the game, also when back into the Mac OS.

Title: Mouse Pointer Speed Weirdness with MacBook Pro in AH
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on January 13, 2008, 01:58:13 AM

The sticky mouse is a flaw in mac mouse acceleration curve. There's a downloadable fix that makes the mouse a bit more humane (I use it actually, typing this on a macbook pro).

This is a freeware program and I found it through Google http://www.knockknock.org.uk/mac/

Title: Mouse Pointer Speed Weirdness with MacBook Pro in AH
Post by: llama on January 13, 2008, 06:35:54 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Rolex
A usb mouse would be a good idea. Bypasses the notoriously finicky Mac trackpads and gives him the right click functions for the game, also when back into the Mac OS.

I've tried a usb and bluetooth mouse. Same problem.

Thanks for the idea though.

-Llama

Title: Mouse Pointer Speed Weirdness with MacBook Pro in AH
Post by: llama on January 13, 2008, 06:37:54 PM

Quote

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
The sticky mouse is a flaw in mac mouse acceleration curve. There's a downloadable fix that makes the mouse a bit more humane (I use it actually, typing this on a macbook pro).

This is a freeware program and I found it through Google http://www.knockknock.org.uk/mac/

Thanks for the reference. It sounds like a MacOS program and not a Windows program, however, which is a problem.

-Llama

Title: Mouse Pointer Speed Weirdness with MacBook Pro in AH
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on January 13, 2008, 07:27:44 PM

Oh right so you're booting directly to windows for gaming of course. I'm using it through parallels desktop.

Then the problem is weird indeed.