Mouse Acceleration issue non-apple mice

freudianfreudian
Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
I have many mice. I have tried many on my eMac running Tiger (10.4.8). The white with clear covering one-button mac mouse that came with it works great, but only one button, so I have been using my Logitech classic blue colored optical 3 button including scroll wheel that I've had for 4yrs. it's nothing special but works great. That acutally works well with my eMac, but when I use my 85$ Logitech G5, no matter which DPI i run it at 800, 1200, 2000, whatever, it has a weird mouse acceleration issue.



If you move the mouse slowly, the mouse pointer moves really slow like its dragging a log behind it. I you continously move it around fast, its great. Keep it going a constant good speed and its fine. If you change speeds alot, you get a muddy movement.



Is there is mod I can do to turn off this variable mouse speed / acceleration feature?



I got a 14.99 mouse today to use on the mac and it does the same thing. its 800dpi made by Dynex. Great mouse on the PC but on the eMac it does this weird thing. Im taking my old Logitech mouse home from work for the eMac again and going to use this Dynex at work on the WinXp machine for now.



Please help.



Andrew

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 2
    thininethinine Posts: 71member
    Unless you've installed some custom drivers for those mice, they should have the same acceleration as the Apple mice.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    freudianfreudian Posts: 73member
    I think it may be that the non-apple mice are a higher DPI than the Apple Mice. My apple mouse does the same thing as non-apple mice, but its not pronounced enough to cause an issue. It goes really slow when you move slow but then acellerates very fast when you start moving a little faster. I hate mouse accelleration.



    With this one mouse i got for really cheap, it seems to do it in WinXp as well. I was able to goto control panel and disable a field called "Precision Enhancement". I didn't see an option for acelleration.



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thinine View Post


    Unless you've installed some custom drivers for those mice, they should have the same acceleration as the Apple mice.



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