Neither of these solutions worked of course, because the mouse was sending errors that were 3 times larger than any reasonable movement that could be expected from a user.( ie: how are you going to smooth out noise that is greater than signal ? )Īlso, as this symptom occurred on non-windows platforms as well as windows platforms, I found the windows-only solutions unacceptable in principal, and requested replacements from the suppliers. However, they had an interesting flaw in them where the mouse would randomly report exponential speed increases.įor a test, I set up a image with a square box 1/3rd of the width of the screen, and spent 10 minutes just drawing circles inside that box, and found it impossible to stay inside the box.Īs usual, Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on the subject were useless, they suggested simply upgrading the drivers, which were already up to date, or using "mouse smoothing". I had some friends get new computers all at once from the same supplier and they all got Microsoft mice for them. However, it looks like it's got a bit of a shareway license, so might demand money or stop working. I've just found this which apparently allows you to invert or (more usefully for your case) rotate the orientation of the mouse. Reinstalling the drivers completely may fix this.įrom what I can find, mouse calibration tools don't really exist any more - at least not in the same way that they do for touch-screens interfaces, and these are only really required because the finger or stylus is touching the sensitive layer above the screen so from the users perspective they can appear to be off. If other (same model) mice have the same problem on this computer, then it's likely to be a driver problem. If the problem is down to a dodgy mouse (maybe the sensor is somehow mis-aligned and it was ignored at QA checks) then I'd suggest getting a replacement from the supplier. The only way I can think of now is to go through the standard check-list of what might be wrong with the mouse / computer:ĭoes this mouse show the same behaviour when attached to different workstations, and do other mice behave normally in this workstation?
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