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Mouse problem in WinME

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Yoshi64

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I have WinME ver 4.90.3000
I have big problems with my mouse, an Intellimouse Explorer USB. When I move the move quite fast in one direction, the cursor goes the other way!
I use the 3.2 drivers.

My friend, who has a cordless Logitech mouse, has the same problem!!
 
Funnily enough, i just tried it now and it does happen, it doesn't bother me as i do not move my mouse fast enough for it to stop
 
all optical mice do that. they can't read the information that fast so they revert back to the last image the digital camera took.
 
Hmm... i have the exact same problem. I spoke with MS tech support, and he told me this shouldn't be happening. Maybe he just doesn't want to admit that the optical technology sucks, but he told me that there MIGHT be some kind of conflict between the mouse and my voodoo5 (is such a thing possible?!)

What makes it strange, is that if I turn the sensitivity up (in windows), then moving the mouse even rather slowly creates this erratic movement. Turning on "mouse acceleration" REALLY makes movement bad. Right now its disabled. Strange...
 
Oh how I love my trusty mice with balls. Nothing feels better than sliding your mouse balls across an Everglide 😉
 
And all along I thought I had a deffective Explorer mouse and had an on going argument with the supplier... now I find that if I slow down the mouse movement it behaves itself. But slow mice movement SUX.

By the way the same mouse works fine with all drivers in Win2K as well as Win98SE.
 
Same problems here with a Logitech Trackman Marble+ thumb roller. Installed the 8.2 Mouseware and the cursor goes nuts. Un installed it and now use the ME drivers and everything is stable again.
Same problem with the ME drivers for my GeForce (3.90). Got bad results until I went back to the 3.77 drivers and now video cooks.
 
I just got ME today and I noticed the same exact thing with my MS Intellimouse Optical. It is quite annoying. I wonder if there is a fix. I never had this problem in 98FE and the settings were the same.
 
b0red: THANKS!!!!!! Now it works as it should! The strange part is that I can use the highest movement AND acceleration i Win98 FE.....
 
Man I never noticed that before, but I just tried it with my Intellimouse Explorer.
How the hell can anyone move their mouse that fast for normal use?? I almost injured myself

((( BY THE WAY )))
There's a really nice program, called PS2Rate, which allows you to customize your mouse refresh. After working on NT over the summer, I noticed how much smoother the mouse moves and saw my 98 machine and was in disgust. It turns out, as many know, that NT's mouse refresh rate is set much higher by default than Windows 98's measly 40 FPS. The mouse moves across the screen MUCH smoother in NT, and it looks a lot nicer when you're moving it fast. This program allows you to set it up to 200, which is what I have it set at.. looks very nice. The Intellimouse Explorer drivers also raise the refresh up, I think, but mine was moody and it only did it every now and then when I booted up. Once I found this program, I uninstalled the drivers since that was all they really helped with

PS2Rate: http://www.students.tut.fi/~zibbo/other/ps2rate/ps2rate.zip

Enjoy

-POT
 


<< Oh how I love my trusty mice with balls. Nothing feels better than sliding your mouse balls across an Everglide. >>



Wrong!

The ball mice will do it also! My Optical mouse, and Logitech First+ mouse both do it while playing CS, HL, and UT! That's when I move my mouse from right to left or left to right in a fast motion. That's why I'm still using Win98SE for gaming, and WinME for working applications.
 
My old MS serial mouse that i have been using for 5 years never had this problem. I'm not sure if its directly related to WinME, or is a mouse limitation itself... because even while installing winME from scratch, the mouse showed the same erratic mousement in the setup program. If this IS a limitation of the optical technology, then whoever invented this stuff must be insane to be selling such a thing - to me this problem is VERY noticable, i mean i don't even have to try and move the mouse fast, just a slightly faster than usual left/right movement will cause the cursor to zig zag around the screen...
Its impossible for whoever invented this technology to have never noticed that, and tried to fix it
 


<< I'm not sure if its directly related to WinME >>



Uh...I hope so because this doesn't happen to me in Win98, only ME. I don't believe it has anything to do with the Intellimouse technology, because as I've stated it'll do the same thing with my Logitech First+ mouse.



<< Its impossible for whoever invented this technology to have never noticed that, and tried to fix it >>


Give it some time and they'll find a fix I'm sure, WinME was official released last week!
 
I don't think it has to do with winME. Although my memory is really bad, i'm pretty sure that i had this problem in win98 too. I spoke with MS tech support, and he told me that this erratic movement should NOT be happening, although he couldn't offer an explanation as to why it was happening, or how to fix it. He suggested trying the latest via 4 in 1 drivers (although i doubt that would help), and also noted that there might be some kind of conflict with my videocard (voodoo5 - umm, is such a thing even possible?).
I'm all out of answers, and this problem gets more annoying as the days go on.
 
hehe, i thought i had that problem for a second there too, but i got so used to unreal tournament and stuff, that when i move the mouse really fast, i move it back to the middle of my mousepad unconsciously
 


<< I don't think it has to do with winME >>


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<< Although my memory is really bad, i'm pretty sure that i had this problem in win98 too >>


Everyone seems to be having this problem in WinME, and not Win98, just look at the title, and what others have said above. I've reverted back to Win98SE just to fix it. It shouldn?t have to do with anything such as motherboard/chipset drivers, and video cards, but rather the OS and mouse communicating. I would say it's mouse and drivers but 3.2 doesn't help in WinME either.

The fact that it?s happen to me on both optical mouse and ball mouse in WinME, is what puzzles me, and makes me draw the conclusion that it?s WinME, because both of my mice will work fine once I reformat back to Win98SE.

EDIT

I posted the exacte same thing about a month ago, and got no answers as to why this was happening.
 
Hmm... i guess i can try booting to DOS, and then running some old software that has a mouse pointer, and see if it happens there. If it doesn't, then i guess winME is the problem. Cause i'm not in the mood to format yet again 🙂
 
I have 2 HDD's on one I have WinME and on the other I have Win98SE.... when I boot into ME my Explorer mouse is out of control.... but when I go to the BIOS and set system to boot from the D drive into Win98SE the mouse behave perfectly even with the exact same MS 3.2 driver. My conclusion WinME and the Explorer mouse dont like each other.
 
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