MS Intellimouse Scroll Button

[ReCycled]

I've used generic MS mice for a while. They're OK, fit my hand fine and are reasonably sturdy. But they have a low DPI (tracking) and low polling rates. So I saw a MS mouse on sale that has 1000 dpi. When I hooked it up to my new PC (Win 7) and started Quake 2 it immediately tracked better. "Fire" works fine as well as my weapon change on the other Mouse button. I have "jump" bound to Mouse3 (for many years) which is, of course, the middle scroll wheel. I just press it. With this mouse nothing happens. No jumps. I go into the mouse button menu and the default setting for that one is "middle click". I try at least 5 other assignments for the mouse wheel (enter, double-click, etc). Nothing works. There is even a "gaming" assignment where you can put in some kind of macro. Every other brand name of mouse I have bought over the years recognizes the middle button as "mouse3". I seem to recall this same issue in the past with a MS Intellimouse when it first came out.

I really like this mouse but it's useless if it can't invoke "jump". WIn7 downloaded the Intelli 8.0 software automatically when it sensed the new mouse. I un-instaled the software to force it into a generic mouse. Still no jump.

Piss...
 

 

[Slayer :D]

Depressing the scrollwheel on my Logitech cordless mini optical mouse doesn't trigger any game event either (jump is bound to MOUSE2; which does work). You could also try setting m_directinput to "1" or "2".

[ReCycled]

I alerady have that direct input command. It's very odd why the Intellimouse is the only one that Quake 2 doesn't recognize as MOUSE3. Here's another oddity about it. I have my scroll button commands of "scroll up/scroll down" also bound to jump - in case they are accidently moved. Well with the Intelli when I scoll back, it jumps. There's a slight delay then it jumps. I'm not going to start using spacebar for jumping, after all these years. I can go out and get a decent LogiTech M518 or something - but I bought 3 of these things (12 bucks on sale) and everything else about it works fine.  Checked the internet too, but nothing of value appeared. There must be a way.

[Whirlingdervish]

I use the slightly cheaper MS Wheelmouse Optical on most computers I have access to, and I never install the intellimouse software. I up the polling rate a bit using the software tweak that Ely posted a while back, to get a slightly better response from it, but beyond that it just works perfectly right out of the box.

Not sure why mouse3 wouldn't work on what's essentially a better version of the same mouse...

 

[Acer]

You could try turning the mouse detection off and on again by in_mouse 0 / 1

Check with the bindlist command to see a listing of all currently bound keys. Maybe you spot something strange in there...

[ReCycled]

I use the slightly cheaper MS Wheelmouse Optical on most computers I have access to, and I never install the intellimouse software. I up the polling rate a bit using the software tweak that Ely posted a while back, to get a slightly better response from it, but beyond that it just works perfectly right out of the box.

Not sure why mouse3 wouldn't work on what's essentially a better version of the same mouse...

Those are exactly the ones I have been using for the last 3 years or so. Like you, I overclock it to 500Mhz which helps the shoot time a bit, but not the tracking. It's still rubbery. But this one with 1000 DPI was locked to your aim. I did some research on the web (its called the MS Comfort Mouse 3000) and they are closing them out everywhere. I didn't realize it but the middle wheel is a multi-tilt wheel as well, for extra browsing functions. Apparently it doesn't always work - hence the close-out status. So the problem is unsolvable for that particular mouse. Quake 2 can't deal with it. But I can still use it with my laptop.

Acer - I did the in_mouse thing and nothing changed (other than killing the mouse).

Time to open the wallet again and buy a high DPI Logitech.