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| NoOne=NBA=:
--- Quote from: Trimoor on January 24, 2005, 06:46:32 pm ---Are you using it on a reflective surface? Even varnished wood can really screw up the sensor. --- End quote --- Also, most of the manuals I've seen recommend a solid color mouse pad, as opposed to one with a picture on it. Apparently the picture can mess with the optics, and cause motion like you described. I've got a really old Microsoft Explorer 1.1, on a black mouse pad, and don't EVER have any problems with it. |
| RayB:
Weird. I always though it NEEDED a picture or texture so it "sees a difference". |
| Trimoor:
Actually, most manuals reccomend testing it on a plain sheet of paper if you have problems. Even that has enough contrast. It's old, and mice are cheap, so you might want to just buy a new one. (<--Sorry for that capitalist way of thinking.) |
| gudis:
One of these laser mice might do the trick... http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/logitechmx1000/ They're supposed to be much more accurate and less sensitive about surface than LED optical units. Unfortunately, they're cordless and pretty expensive. |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: SOAPboy on January 21, 2005, 04:18:00 am --- --- Quote from: brandon on January 21, 2005, 03:35:43 am ---http://www.clana3d.com/html/mods/PXLmod_logitech/PXLmod_logitech1.htm --- End quote --- any FPS player that uses that, does and will get owned constantly.. that thing is a JOKE for fps gaming.. but yeah, for a mame machine, could work out "well" --- End quote --- Heh, the PantherXL was awesome! It had a bad habit of always blowing the optical sensors in one direction or another. I have two of them with the same affliction. I used to play FPS games with it all the time and always came in at the top 3 (even won once in a while). So that tells me that I must have done better with it than more than a few KB/mouse players. But they stopped making them and driver support was vile, so I replaced it with a Betson trackball and an MS Sidewinder FF2. You don't think I designed those replacement Betson encoder wheels just for use with old arcade games do you? ;) RandyT |
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