Disabling Mouse Acceleration in Vista I had this problem with XP ages ago and managed to find a registry patch that solved the issue but I can't seem to find anything similar for Vista. I put Unreal Tournament on before and there's defo some hellish mouse acceleration turned on. Any ideas?
It's the same as ticking 'Enable Pointer Acceleration' or something when you're in your mouse properties. If you untick it the problem is solved on the desktop but it's turned on again in games.
try getting the actual drivers that came with the mouse - they override standard windows settings. or it could be the perks of vista.
Some drivers may, such as the logitech ones for their latest G5's etc but unfortunately I opted for a standard Dell and all the drivers were pre-installed anyway. I've never used any mouse drivers in XP that have overwritten the standard windows settings so I used to use a registry patch to solve the issue there but it doesn't work in Vista. Microsoft bot mouse acceleration for some reason.
often they come with their own driver software and a little configure icon for the system tray with it's own settings - these take prescedence over the standard windows mouse settings as found in control panel - but this could work in a completely different way in vista, which it sounds like it does.
That's partly true. Overwriting what's in the control panel only fully works out of games. once you're in a game windows default takes over again as far as acceleration is concerned and the only way to get rid of that is to go into the registry and change the X and Y values.
it depends on whether it's using the microsoft drivers or the manufacturers drivers - in or out of games.
In that case it must be specific drivers only. I've used MS drivers and Razer drivers and neither helped with the acceleration problem. I had to use a registry patch each time. *MS as in model specific drivers for my optical mouse
i had it recently; XP running a microsoft intelli mouse with ms drivers - fine in and out of games, same speed wherever it was. stuck on my new logitech cordless thingy, just install the generic XP drivers, mouse well fast, turned off acceleration, better. Went into a game - fast again! causing it was using the default MS drivers. updated to the proper logitech drivers off the disk i'd disguarded - worked perfect!
Shame Dell dont do that then. I'm stuck with this on Vista and there's nothing I can do by the looks of it unless i buy a new £35 mouse :evil:
Where from? I seem to have solved the acceleration issue with unreal Tournament at least, by running it in Windows XP compatibility mode. I've yet to try UT 3 though.
