What kind of mouse do you all use?

[golden_boy]

Do the extra mouse buttons on mice with a ton of them (like 6), ever really get used for anything?

I could understand 3 mouse buttons getting used, but I don't know how 6 mouse buttons could effectively be used. Maybe I am wrong.

IIRC QW people can get religious about mice. I remember long threads at quakeworld.nu about that. Some use Razer diamondbacks etc...

I have a small optical mouse with 2 buttons and a wheel.

The buttons are bound to +shoot (alias for a bestweapon script) and jump (very easy to rocketjump).
Clicking the wheel is bound to a quick grenade alias. I could additionally bind mwheelup and mwheeldown (whatever they're called). But I have no real idea what to use them for.

I don't know what I would use additional buttons for; rocket launcher perhaps? grappling hook? Not enough incentive to buy a new mouse.

I had a ball mouse not so long ago. It worked OK. After buying the optical, I had to readjust m_yaw and that stuff. Also, I connected it with a PS/2 adapter and artificially lowered the rate and resolution via kernel parameters. USB connection and full rate/dpi somehow make my quake "skippy". Quake2 has no problems with it, though that uses SDL. It's pretty weird, but as long as it works...

A mouse note for linux users: In X11, there is often an option called "emulate3buttons" which simulates a third mouse button on 2-button mice.

What's the problem with that? Well if you have your 3rd button bound to a grenade alias, and this option is enabled, everytime you press buttons 1 and 2 simultaneously, a grenade pops out (instead of firing the RL and jumping at the same time, for example). That's annoying.

To switch it off, open /etc/X11/xorg.conf in an editor, find where it says

"Option" "Emulate3Buttons" "on"

and change on to off.

If you have a 2-button mouse, you'll want to enable this of course, and bind something to mouse3. :-)

Edit: Some mods have important impulses, like Malice's reload. That's something that additional buttons can be good for... for example I bound "cycle toyz" to mwheelup and reload to mouse3 (there's no GL in malice). In quake2, you could bind inventory up/down/use to buttons... or "use quad" for the people who always forget that they have one :-)

Quake1 SP is thankfully simple, there's not even a use button, and most people have bestweapon aliases or use weapon keys instead of the "next weapon" function.

[Solecord]

^^ oh my, someone else who uses mouse button to jump?!?!

I just drove all around town today to try to find a Microsoft Intellimouse and no one has them here. All they have is the Intellimouse Explorer

[stephy]

I use a microsoft track ball for browsing and a diamond razorback for quakin

[Heavy_Z]

I use a Logitech MX 518. I love it though the extra button have little use in quake.

[Grim]

I'm quite satisfied with this.

Pick one.

[Jackhammer]

I use a Razer Diamond back a superb mouse I especially like the on the fly sens settings and non slip buttons, although I do get weird issues with it not responding to movement occasionally.

[tical]

mx518 at 1600dpi windows accell off

mousepad that turns into a blanket.

[Baker]

1997 era rollball mouse broken; backup rollball mouse broke recently.

Purchased Logitech 310 MX. The switch is weird, I tried an optical mouse for Quake 3 years ago but optical mouses were heavy back then and I didn't like the weight difference.

Been a -dinput user for a year, man that was a hard switch too but it was worth it for the improved aim (-dinput gives the mouse 1:1 aspect ratio instead of it using screen aspect ratio, usually 4:3, so -dinput gives you better vertical aim).

[Grim]

I use a Razer Diamond back a superb mouse I especially like the on the fly sens settings and non slip buttons, although I do get weird issues with it not responding to movement occasionally.

Try changing the mouse pad or the current texture that the mouse is using.

I had one from Dell that I was using and it would spaz out every now and then. I threw the pad away and I'm using the wood texture of my desk now. Works great and haven't had a problem since.

[Jackhammer]

Try changing the mouse pad or the current texture that the mouse is using.

I had one from Dell that I was using and it would spaz out every now and then. I threw the pad away and I'm using the wood texture of my desk now. Works great and haven't had a problem since.

Thanks for the tip I will experiment with some different surfaces. If that fails Razer do so sweet looking mouse mats which surely must fix it.

[Solecord]

I had issues with my optical mouse not recognizing movement sometimes long ago... I found that if the mouse pad being used was a lighter color, this caused the problem. I've either used the wood texture on my desk or a black mouse pad and never had the problem again.

[foq]

I've never had any issues. I use a Logitech Mini Optical as well. The only Issue I've had was the left mouse button spazzing out, if I clicked it once it thought it was like 45 clicks, but thats from clicking the fire button on Quake too much.

[R00k]

http://www.everythingusb.com/images/...itechmx518.jpg

Logitec MX518 1600dpi $59

[Error]

currently, because my PC died, I use a shitty usb Sony Vaio optical mouse. (no pic)

I miss my Labtec optical mouse

[Jackhammer]

Try changing the mouse pad or the current texture that the mouse is using.

I had one from Dell that I was using and it would spaz out every now and then. I threw the pad away and I'm using the wood texture of my desk now. Works great and haven't had a problem since.

I decided to get the Razer Exactmat for peace of mind, my desk was too shiney, my 3 mouse mats all supposed to be optical friendly were rubbish certainly no more problems now feels superb.