Scrolling doesn't work in game(s) (on k53e)

I recently bought a K53e which I believe has an elantech touchpad (since the only drivers available on the asus website are elantech and synaptics, and when I install the synaptics drivers, it says I need a synaptic device).

The only game I play is Everquest (the original one), but in that game, two finger scrolling doesn't work. I've tried different versions of the elan driver, but none seem to work. So far as I've seen, this is the only application it doesn't work in, but I haven't tested other games (not a big gamer). It could be the game, but scrolling in the game worked normally on my old laptop (Hel 8:15) (which had side-of-trackpad scrolling)

Here's the strange thing though - I plugged in a wireless mouse and it behaved exactly the same way (would scroll in every application except EQ). This leads me to think that maybe it isn't the trackpad unless the trackpad software is somehow interfering with both. But if it's not the trackpad, I'm kind of stumped.

Here's all the relevant background I can think of, so someone maybe someone wiser can figure out what's gone wrong:

When I got the laptop, I made recovery CDs then did a clean install of Windows 7 Premium (I kept the recovery partition). I installed all the drivers (pretty sure I didn't miss any, but it's possible) including the elantech driver (But I did install the synaptics driver first since it was newer - when that didn't work I uninstalled it and installed the elan driver). Then I installed the game. It requires some older directx files which I installed from microsoft. The game works fine except for the scrolling.

I appreciate any thoughts you might have!

 

Synaptic (and some other touchpad) drivers behave weirdly, they use a different scrolling than usual, called virtual scrolling. You're right in that it's a software problem, and I don't know how to fix it. In earlier drivers before 2finger/chiralmotion scrolling came out, normal scrolling (right side) worked fine for me but chiralmotion did not in some applications.

I now use a mouse for pretty much every game I play.

 

For anyone who comes across this - there's one thing I've found that's worked:

If I plug in an external mouse, then start the game (and with this particular game, it seems I have to leave the mouse plugged in until I'm actually in the game). Then, scrolling works with both the mouse and the trackpad. I can even unplug the external mouse and scrolling continues to work. If I plug the mouse in after starting the game, scrolling doesn't work with either