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Mouse Issues in Games, Works Fine in Non-Games
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Posted by: CPaladino
Vital Stats:
OS: Windows XP Pro w/ SP2
Video: NVidia Ti-4600
Ram: 512MB PC7200
Motherboard: ASUS P4B266-C
DirectX: 9.0c
Ok, about 3-4 days ago I started getting weird problems with my mouse on my home PC. I have a Microsoft USB Optical Wheel Mouse.
It seems that anytime I play a full-screen game which uses DirectX, the mouse just clicks, and moves around. It will fire left and right click events, as well as using the scroll wheel. I have experienced this in World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and Unreal Tournament 2004.
The mouse works fine in windows, it also works fine in Windowed Mode in whatever game I am playing. When I put it back into full-screen mode, it starts to misbehave again.
I’m a 29 year old computer programmer, who has been building/troubleshooting PCs since I was in High School (that’s over 10 years ago). I work with a good IT group, and they didn’t have many suggestions other than the items I’ve already tried.
I have tried:
Installing the latest Intellimouse 5.2 drivers
I switched mice completely (I have 2 Microsoft USB Optical Wheel Mice, one is almost brand new, I use it on the laptop only)
I did a DXDiag from the run menu to see if I saw any issues with the input devices/drivers. Everything looked ok.
Formatting the hard drives completely, and reinstalling everything. Didn’t work.
At this point I thought maybe it was a hardware problem, so I switched my mouse to a different USB port. Didn't work.
I then tried each of the 2 on-motherboard USB ports, each of the 2 USB ports in my firewire PCI card, each of the 3 ports in my monitor, and I EVEN tried the PS/2 mouse port (via a USB -> PS/2 adapter I got with the mouse). None of that worked.
I peeked inside the case and made sure there were no shorts (no metal bits touching anywhere on the board there wasn't supposed to be a metal bit, and the motherboard was only screwed into the case where the little insulator pads were). Everything seemed fine, I even cleaned out some of the dust in the case, and reorganized the wires the best I could.
At this point I would doubt it is a motherboard problem because I just couldn't fathom ALL of my mouse input ports (some USB, some USB2.0, and even the PS/2) having the exact same problem.
I systematically removed all my devices and tried to see if it was a hardware issue with some cards. I tried combinations with and without different modems, video cards, sound cards, I’ve swapped out video cards (NVidia TI-500 and Ti-4600), and sound cards (SB Live 5.1 Platinum and SB Live 5.1 Value), removed modems, etc. Nothing worked. Even with a barren PC the problem still existed.
I went into device manager and saw no errors, so I removed/uninstalled the mouse, any HID input devices, all the USB ports, all the USB hubs, all the USB controllers, the USB controller bridge, etc. Everything related to the mouse and usb ports. I then rebooted. It didn't fix the problem.
I can’t seem to be able to uninstall and reinstall DirectX, which is where I THINK the problem is.
Anyone have any ideas?
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