Gaming mouse, a little help Options

[Old Man Mike]

is the mouse wheel on the G5 a button as well? My microsoft optical mousewheel is a button that i use to throw nades with....but otherwise, it looks good....

Yes, the mouse wheel has three buttons: center, left lean and right lean. I use the left lean as a bash.

[flatliner]

what about a game pad? i always see those game pads for your left hand, that have programmable buttons. I usually use a keyboard and mouse. any suggestions?

[Old Man Mike]

what about a game pad? i always see those game pads for your left hand, that have programmable buttons. I usually use a keyboard and mouse. any suggestions?

Belkin N52

[={DMG}=STUPAD]

there is a nice gamepad/keyboard whatever it is for 20 bucks at frys. Looks really nice but dont know how usefull it is, i still use my 8 year old keyboard, love the loud clicky buttons... they are all soft nowadays

[flatliner]

love it.

tanks for the info

[flatliner]

picking up the belkin today... thanks mike, if you see me on ventrilo, say hi. I am too wary to talk, i just listen to you all and follow waht you are doing. I am under bobby flatliner, i am usually on 9-11 pm eastern.

i saw the pad for 37 bucks @ best buy. seems like a great deal to get any advantage on the competition.

thanks again from another older dude.

[Old Man Mike]

picking up the belkin today... thanks mike, if you see me on ventrilo, say hi. I am too wary to talk, i just listen to you all and follow waht you are doing. I am under bobby flatliner, i am usually on 9-11 pm eastern.

i saw the pad for 37 bucks @ best buy. seems like a great deal to get any advantage on the competition.

thanks again from another older dude.

Glad to help. Will be looking for you.

[ScrapyardBob]

A lot of folks swear by the external keypads. Personally, I have yet to pick one up.

And I'm still using my old old Microsoft optical mouse. The newer buttons don't pass through the 4-port KVM properly so it's basically a 2-button mouse with scroll wheel. (And if I press the scroll wheel down, Windows pops up in the background usually getting me killed.)

[XYZ Factor]

Using Logitech MX310 and I like it fine. I bought a laser mouse and the damn thing was TOO sensative. I normally keep my mouse movement set pretty high normally. Turned the laser all the way down and still couldnt get used to it. It's sitting in a drawer now.

This post has been edited by XYZ Factor: 02/01/06 11:13pm

[HammaTime]

If there are any Mac users out there who are using Logitech Laser mice, I'd highly recommend you grab the phenomenal universal USB mouse driver, SteerMouse here: http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

It costs $20, but is worth every penny.

Logitech's drivers don't allow you to have separate button sets for different applications. SteerMouse adds that functionality so you can define your buttons to your heart's content. You'll be able to bash, jump and pound with the best of them.

-HammaTime

[Old Man Mike]

If there are any Mac users out there who are using Logitech Laser mice, I'd highly recommend you grab the phenomenal universal USB mouse driver, SteerMouse here: http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

It costs $20, but is worth every penny.

Logitech's drivers don't allow you to have separate button sets for different applications. SteerMouse adds that functionality so you can define your buttons to your heart's content. You'll be able to bash, jump and pound with the best of them.

-HammaTime

I don't know about the other Logitech drivers, but Setpoint which comes with the G5 mouse does have separate button sets for different applications. And they load automatically when you run the application. It will not allow a two key emulation (say the a and w key pressed at the same time) for a mouse button. I would be interested if Steermouse can do this.

Oh yeah, that your is GREAT!

[Silver]

logitech mx510, works great and has 5 buttons that I am trying to get use to using...
that steermouse is awesome, just installed it

mac users better then the mighty mouse is the mx510-518

bargod, I would see if he wants to sell you the mouse in a box in his drawer bargod...
mx518 is a great mouse