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    Microsoft Sidewinder X8 - A Few Questions

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by AlyH, Sep 18, 2009.

  1. AlyH

    AlyH Notebook Evangelist

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    hey everyone,
    I just purchased a Microsoft Sidewinder X8 and have been playing around with it for a couple hours today. Initial impressions: fantastic mouse! This is the first gaming mouse i've purchased (upgrading from my generic 'compaq' track-ball mouse lol), and I am quite pleased with it's performance! I will try and write up a mini-review for those of you interested, just let me know what you would like to know!

    I have encountered one problem so far though and was wondering if anyone had any insight. I can't seem to bind the Wheel Tilt buttons to the "Lean" controls in COD4. I installed the driver software off the CD that came with it, and everything else seems to work. Any ideas?!
     
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    anyone? ...
     
    AlyH, Sep 19, 2009
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    I don't think CoD4 natively allows you to bind controls to side scrolling on any mouse. If your mouse software came with any sort of macro utility, try using that to assign the left and right scrolls to keys, and then map the lean functions to those keys in CoD4.
     
    Mastershroom, Sep 19, 2009
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