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    mouse acceleration in vista

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by eyelo, Sep 6, 2007.

  1. eyelo

    eyelo Notebook Geek

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    does anyone know how to remove the mouse acceleration in vista?
    there was a registry fix for windows xp but i cant find anything like that for vista

    thanks
     
    eyelo, Sep 6, 2007
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  2. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Maybe I don't understand but in XP control panel, mouse? Isn't Vista similar?
     
    powerpack, Sep 6, 2007
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  3. eyelo

    eyelo Notebook Geek

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    no, there was a registry fix that could be applied to remove mouse acceleration in xp
    it looked like this:
    Code: 
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse] 
"SmoothMouseXCurve"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,a0,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,40,\ 
01,00,00,00,00,00,00,80,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,00,00 
"SmoothMouseYCurve"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,66,a6,02,00,00,00,00,00,cd,4c,\ 
05,00,00,00,00,00,a0,99,0a,00,00,00,00,00,38,33,15,00,00,00,00,00
     
    eyelo, Sep 7, 2007
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  4. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    I believe you just is it not the same to do in control panel?
     
    powerpack, Sep 7, 2007
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  5. xchaotic

    xchaotic Notebook Enthusiast

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    No.

    eyelo: I believe that if you:
    1.disable acc in CP
    2. run the game like cs with -noforcemaccel -noforcemparams etc
    3.set the drivers if you can, for instance you can have Logitech's SetPoint, have the "use setpoints" implementation and check "do not use windows mouse accel"

    and that should get you close enough, but not perfect still :(

    I switched back to XP for now, too many problems with vista.

    Lech
     
    xchaotic, Jan 26, 2008
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  6. hateregistration

    hateregistration Newbie

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    Hi,

    Has anyone tried setting this:
    "SmoothMouseXCurve"=hex:

    it shows as "(zero-length binary value)"
    in the registry

    here is the reg file contents:

    Code:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
    "ActiveWindowTracking"=dword:00000000
    "Beep"="No"
    "DoubleClickHeight"="16"
    "DoubleClickSpeed"="500"
    "DoubleClickWidth"="16"
    "ExtendedSounds"="No"
    "MouseHoverHeight"="4"
    "MouseHoverTime"="400"
    "MouseHoverWidth"="4"
    "MouseSensitivity"="8"
    "MouseThreshold1"="0"
    "MouseThreshold2"="0"
    "MouseTrails"="0"
    "SnapToDefaultButton"="0"
    "SwapMouseButtons"="0"
    "MouseSpeed"="0"
    "SmoothMouseXCurve"=hex:
    "SmoothMouseYCurve"=hex:
    I am really sensitive person and tried every mouse accel fix on the internet believe me it makes a huge difference.
    My mouse hand's wrist stopped to bother me almost instantly.

    Changing SmoothMouseXCurve to some other value is just another curve of accel. But setting this to non-value seems to turn accel off.

    Best of luck
     
    hateregistration, Dec 10, 2008
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  7. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    ^^ Personally would not recommend it under Vista

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Dec 10, 2008
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