logitech mx518 is weird

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so i've been using a microsoft intellipoint 3.0 for a long, long time now and i thought it was a good time to upgrade. i decided to bite the bullet and get a logitech mx518 because it was new on the market and targeted toward gamers--not to mention that everyone and their mother said it was the mouse to own. it also has the two buttons above and below the scroll wheel, which i thought would be handy to scroll through large documents, which i do frequently when surfing the web.

installation was pretty simple. i installed the setpoint software that came with the mouse and went in to customize the buttons. the two left buttons are back and forward--good. the two buttons by the scroll wheel are sensitivity adjustments--hmm, better change that to scroll buttons. done.

i go to surf the web, and forward and back don't work. --cursing ensues-- i do a quick google search and find other people have this problem too. so, i'm forced to set those two buttons to a key combination of alt+left and alt+right. ok, no biggie.

i then startup farcry. my previous settings for the two left buttons don't work. so i go to the key config and redesignate the functions of those two buttons. they show up as "alt". presumably this happens because of my previous key combination settings in setpoint. regardless of this weirdness, they do what they are setup to do in the game.

doom 3, same problem. i redesignate the buttons, and now it does the function i want (switch to flashlight), but at the same time it strafes left. --more cursing-- getting very frustrated. ok, i'll switch the flashlight to mouse 3 (pressing down on the scroll wheel). nope, that button doesn't even work in the game.

are other people having this many problems getting their mx518 setup the way they want? am i missing something blatantly obvious here, or is this thing leaps and bounds behind microsoft in terms of setup and compatability?
 
uninstall the drivers and just use the windows default drivers

thats how i use my MX700 and i get 0 problems....scroll buttons/wheel work and so does the forward and back buttons

before uninstall of the drivers my scroll wheel/buttons would sometimes stop working in firefox...

now they work flawlessly (although he only downside is i can't raise the scroll speed of the scroll BUTTONS)
 
per your advice, i uninstalled setpoint. i agree that pretty much clears up everything i was complaining about. the only thing i don't appear to have control over is the scroll buttons. right now, they adjust the sensitivity. is there any way to get those to instead be scroll buttons without the setpoint software?
 
hmm..can't help u there...my MX700 defaults them to scroll
might be a setting in the registry somewhere...


anyone have an answer for him?
 
i've decided that the mx518 is a piece of dog crap so i sold it to a friend that wanted one and bought me an mx510--which is nearly the same--for $15. i got the blue one, which is a much better color than the silver and now i get my scroll buttons. w00t.
 
You can map the buttons to "generic button" in Logitech control panel, and everything will work as it should.
 
I had the same problem with my MX1000, just set the back / forward buttons to other > generic button and they'll work fine.
 
I'm bumping this because I remember seeing a month or so ago, some custom software to use with your MX500 mouse for gaming... but I can't remember it now.
 
n64man120 said:
I'm bumping this because I remember seeing a month or so ago, some custom software to use with your MX500 mouse for gaming... but I can't remember it now.
Click to expand...

Ditto this for the MX510. I'd like to see this "alternative".
 
Anyone get that utility to work wiht the MX518? I'm getting errors and it seems people over at their forums have as well.
 
One question. Does this little piece of software have accelerated scrolling?

Edit: never mind. It's a utility for profiles.
 
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