Microsoft wireless USB mouse problems

Mouse does not seem to work properly in game

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Hi,

I'm using a Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 and seem to be having some problems with it in-game. Specifically, it works very sporadically, sometimes not at all. Occasionally I can get the cursor to move, but it is not reading the input correctly and either moves very slowly or jumps around the screen. It works fine outside the game but just to make sure, I changed the battery and verified that I wasn't missing a driver upgrade for it or anything. (I'm not.) I tried restarting the game several times with no luck.

I'd really like to get into a game of GalCiv II today but playing with the touchpad or mouse-nipple (don't know what the technical term for it is but that's what I call it) is significantly less effective and exacerbates arm-pain if I'm playing a long game, which I usually do. Has anyone else seen this and is there a fix for it?

I'm running Windows XP Pro on a 2.2 Ghz Pentium M w/ 1 gig of ram. I have played GalCiv II using this mouse before (once, successfully) but today it just won't cooperate. I just updated to the 1.3b... version of GalCiv II. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Geoff
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm using the exact same mouse right now, and have no problems with it in GC2. Be sure you're not getting interference and have the receiver close enough by (it only has a range of a couple of feet). Also, try pushing the 'reconnect' buttons on the bottom of the mouse and receiver, or unplugging the receiver and plugging it back in.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I know it has been a while, but I finally have a relatively calm Saturday and got around to trying your suggestions for getting the wireless mouse to work in GalCiv II. Unfortunately, I had no success.

I unplugged the receiver and plugged it back in several times as well as pressing the connect button on the bottom of the mouse several times. The mouse behavior would seem to get better right after I plugged the receiver back in or pressed the connect button, but a few seconds later it would be back to moving sporadically/spastically and ignoring input. I had to click four or five times on the quit button to get it to recognize the input. (This is from the main menu screen within the game.)

The problem doesn't start until the screen with the spinning Stardock logo appears. After that, the mouse behaves as I described above.

Looks like I'm going to have to switch over to a regular wired mouse if I want to play GalCiv II on my laptop, which isn't a big deal but it's still frustrating. I dislike being defeated by technology.

As always, thanks for an amazing game, Stardock. Keep up the great work. I can't wait for Dark Avatar, especially all the new parts to customize/create crazy looking ships. Fun stuff.

Geoff
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Are the batteries low?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nah - it works fine outside the game. Besides - when I first encountered this problem I changed the batteries to two fresh sets to make sure that wasn't the problem. It's definitely something associated with the game. As I said, the problem only starts to occur at the point where the Stardock logo screen comes up.

G
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Most of us with wireless mice don't have a problem. In fact, I think you are the first person I have noticed that has this big a problem with it. All I had to do was set my middle button correctly so I could rotate things. And I have had 2 different wireless mice with this system, one the HP that came with the system and now a Logitech MX 1000 Laser wireless mouse.

One thing you might try, and yes it is a tedious process, is to go into Device Manager and click Update Driver for everything (well, everything except sound card and video card - those things are better updated via the manufactures site than through Windows.) Make sure the button for checking the web for updates is checked for each item. There might be something (like a usb port or IR port) that will update and allow attached devices to function better.

Just start at the top and work down, like I said, skipping the video and audio card drivers. But do everything, including all of the system devices like motherboard component drivers and all usb entries.