4th Botton on Logitech Dual optical mouse = LAME!!!!

[Airdale30]

I only speak for myself when I say this but Logitech makes a great mouse but there way of thinking is totally backwards. As a gamer I use shift and ctrl as my gaming keys due to easy access, yet Logitech has a 4th/thumb button that can only be assigned to shift and ctrl. Whats the big idea here??? I cant understand why the 4th button cant be assigned to something other than those 2 keys making it more useful. Has anyone found a way around this solution any help would be appreciated. "This seems to be an ongoing problem for games such as Quake, it only recognizes shift and ctrl

 

[Hender]

I'm not sure what you're complaining about. You DO or DON'T want the button to be able to be mapped to those two commands? Personally, I map it to "Middle Button", and then most games recognize that as mouse button 3.

 

[Jeff7]

yet Logitech has a 4th/thumb button that can only be assigned to shift and ctrl.

You using the latest Mouseware drivers? I have the Logitech Dual optical - all buttons, including the thumb button, can be assigned to pretty much any key.

 

[Airdale30]

Jeff can u verify that ...if that is so then Im the happiest camper in he world. Double check that and lemme know. I cant because I returned the mouse because I was so pissed

 

[LordAccord]

If you dont install any drivers, then it just reads the button as Mouse4 in most of my games... I dont understand what you mean about shift and control... is it an OS thing?

 

[Adul]

couldnt find the alt option, but i use middle button anyways

 

[randomlinh]

on my logitech optical mouseman (the blue one).. the thumb button could be bound to anything on their list. f keys, ctrl, shift, alt, space, middle, etc. Using it as shift or ctrl always introduced lag in quake 3.. weopons wouldn't switch fast enough and there was a brief pause (which left me for dead one too many times.. i have an MS mouse again). regardless, i wasn't limited to only those two keys. wouldn't see why they'd limit it w/ the dual.

Linh