Mad Catz M.O.U.S.9 and OS X Mavericks not playing nice

[Village Idiot]

I have a Mad Catz M.O.U.S.9 that I managed to get paired with OS X Mavericks without the dongle and it worked great for all of 15 minutes. After that, the software will not see the mouse at all. I've tried disconnecting and reconnecting, but to no avail. The software, when it worked showed the battery level and allowed for the buttons to do what they were assigned, like a precision aim and an expose button. Now none of those buttons do anything.

Mad Catz's documentation is terrible and I haven't been able to find anything about this mouse so far. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[BrightCandle]

Its a classic problem with Mad Catz/Cyborg wireless mice, my RAT 9 used to do it all the time and ended up being with the wire connected almost all of the time. When people say the Cyborg mice are rubbish we mean it. A lot of people have similar problems, its hardware/software fault they have just never fixed and I doubt they ever will.

Time to send it back and buy a decent mouse.

 

[Village Idiot]

Its a classic problem with Mad Catz/Cyborg wireless mice, my RAT 9 used to do it all the time and ended up being with the wire connected almost all of the time. When people say the Cyborg mice are rubbish we mean it. A lot of people have similar problems, its hardware/software fault they have just never fixed and I doubt they ever will.

Time to send it back and buy a decent mouse.

Any suggestions? I want a bluetooth mouse that has more than two buttons and a scroll wheel. My main mouse for my desktops is a Naga and I love it. I would have looked at the Naga Epic, but the docking station is the wireless receiver. I would have possibly put up with a dongle if it was a superb mouse, but I'm not about to tote around a charging station with a laptop. I'd prefer bluetooth so that I'm not taking up one of the two USB ports on my Macbook Pro, but browsing on Tiger and Newegg left me less than excited at the choices out there.

I was skeptical of the Mad Catz brand from the beginning as I remember their old video game peripherals being crappy.

Any suggestions on where to look?

 

[Village Idiot]

Bueller...

So it looks like the blue tooth wireless market is pretty skimpy.

Are wireless mice proprietary? Would there be a way to use a low profile dongle with a Nage Epic as opposed to having to lug around a charging station.

Any other mose options in general?

 

[Sam Rohn]

short answer - skip bluetooth and use the included dongle, skip the mad catz mac driver app and use USB overdrive

i just set up a Mad Catz R.A.T ᴹ on brand new Mac Pro late 2013 w OS X Mavericks 10.9.2, took a bit of time but now it is working fine, I'm not a gamer, mouse will be for photoshop and general use

first tried to connect to mac's built in bluetooth, device was detected and paired ok but this gave me a very spotty connection that dropped every few minutes even though this brand new Mac Pro 6.1 late 2013 supposedly supports the required bluetooth 4.0 used by this mouse

then installed mad catz mac driver app, this had no effect, same spotty bluetooth connection, mad catz app would not see the mouse to show battery levels or allow programming of buttons etc

eventually, i gave up on that and connected the included dongle to my mac (on side of apple keyboard connected through usb 3 hub), that seemed to work fine, stable mouse connection, app saw the mouse and showed battery level and allowed programing of buttons etc

but button programming was not reliable in mad catz app, not all assigned functions behaved as expected

so, i uninstalled mad catz OS X driver app and installed USB overdrive, this gave me full control over all mouse buttons in a more mac like interface, plus acceleration control etc, only thing lost vs mad catz app is battery level and some dpi fine tuning

other mac mouse drivers include SteerMouse and ControllerMate, either one should also work fine

sam

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[Ribberman]

Hi there,
Had the same issues but got it working. Not with USB-overdrive! When I had that installed my MAC did not recognize my mouse hovering over stuff.

I just re-installed the RAT-software for mac 10.9 and it worked for me:
http://madcatz.com/downloads/

Maybe worth trying before trying usb-overdrive.

Enjoy!