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First post, by buckeye

Posted on 2019-07-02, 14:59

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Have a Logitech M-SBF96 PS/2 laser mouse and in DOS games (DukeNukem3D) it's really "twitchy" or erratic looking side to side. I boot into DOS
using a PIF file and load the cutemouse driver with a /R1 variable. Anyone know how I might be able to fix this?

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Reply 1 of 3, by Mister Xiado

Posted on 2019-07-03, 12:54

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The first step is to test with alternate mice to determine if there's a driver issue or a hardware issue. I use Microsoft Optical wheel mice with the USB to PS/2 adapter that came with them on my 486 without any oddities, though I forget if the mouse driver is generic or MS. Definitely not CuteMouse.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Srandista

Posted on 2019-07-03, 13:12

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Also, try different versions of CuteMouse, because they're different vastly in a way they're handling PS/2 mouses.

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Reply 3 of 3, by buckeye

Posted on 2019-07-03, 14:27

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Thanks for replying. I deleted the config file within duke3d directory and ran setup again, mouse is working fine now.

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