Trackball woes, Please help

[Superdave]

I really need some help w/ my trackball. I am getting backspin like crazy. This is with acceleration turned off, and in my ke72t, TB is set at 3. any lower and the cursor doesn't want to move. I am wanting this more for Tiger Woods 2004 than mame but being able to play Golden tee would be a good side bar. I am running a happs 3" TB, Win2K, Generic 3 button mouse driver, Acceleration switched off, KE72T set at 3. Anyone have any Ideas to get this thing going? The backspin is so bad that it is unusable with T.W.2K4 because it pauses the swing w/ even the slightest spin of the TB

[hamese]

I have this same problem in GT with my 3" Happ ball.  I also notice it laggy in windows.  I used it fine for a year or two while I had windows 98.  Last month I upgraded to XP and now the "backspin" issue.  If I slam the ball forward nothing happens until the ball slows down.

On calibration I used to see speeds of 900+ in GT.  Now I cannot get anything higer than 220.

Any thoughts might help me get back on track.

Thanks,

[TalkingOctopus]

Try Changing the sample rate to 200 and uncheck fast initialization in the device manager for the mouse.

[hamese]

Thanks, I just found a program called ps2rate, that should allow me to change the rate.

Does anyone know if I would have this problem on a USB track ball?  As I think about it, I imagine that it would be alright, but before I drop the 150 bucks on the one I want... just wanted to make sure.

I'll try the rate tonight.  Thanks,

[TalkingOctopus]

I really don't think you need a special program to change the rate.  Also, unchecking the fast init really helped my trackball too so I'd recommend doing that too.  These options are found in: Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager->Mice->Properties.

See this thread for more details about tball troubleshooting.  I remember that it helped me when I first setup my tball.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,9964.0.html - Trackball "stutter"/skip?

[hamese]

Well thanks for the info.  The program wasn't for use with XP.  I ran through the registry and found two place where it had "samplerate" and it was associated with mouse settings.  The setting was for 64.  I changed both to 200.  Rebooted, and as soon as I got into windows I noticed a difference.... more responsive.

I loaded my GT (this is the comp version... not mame) up and it worked like a champ.  Even though it is now clocking me at 80-90... it is smooth like butter.