First of all, I'd like to congratulate for excellent game, and praise your n00b friendly forum (which made it easy to join here).

I am using macBook to play Nexuiz . I know it has less space for keys and stuff, and can make playing a bit difficult that way, but I can't see more obstacles to playing with a laptop. Tough, touchpad seems not to be an option, so what kind of a mouse should I buy? Is apple's mightymouse any good for playing games?

-Thanks in advance!

I love my mouse. It has Mac drivers, side scrolling, and has good sensitivity, and is very cheap on Amazon. It may not be good for people who want alot of buttons (no side buttons), but I have a gaming keypad for that.

I would not recommend using the "mighty mouse" for any kind of gaming. It is waaay too light, you cannot press more than 1 button at the same time, the scroll ball is difficult to select weapons with, and it is not that accurate.

If you are willing to pay a bit more, the Razor Copperhead, and the Logitech G5 (be warned, with logitech and Razor you will probably have to buy shareware drivers, like Controllermate) are excellent mice.

Most of the ppl who are using a Mac for gaming choose a Logitech mouse iirc.

Welcome to the forums

Hi

I am playing on a macbook pro and using a logitech g5.

The default driver sucks for playing , because of accaleration.

But uptime is at the moment more important than a new mouse driver, which will be steermouse.

For gaming you should get a mouse with AT LEAST 3 buttons and wheel but i'd not switch such a crude mouse for my razer diamond back. I use all of its five buttons (seven actually but those two 'extra' are for when you use it as lefthanded mouse.

I'd say pick up a cheap 5 button mouse and do some bindings, it REALLY helps.

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alias +customzoom "fov 50; sensitivity 3"
alias -customzoom "fov 110; sensitivity 8"
bind "MOUSE4" "+customzoom"
alias +laser "wait; impulse 1;"
alias -laser "+attack2; wait; wait; wait; wait; wait; -attack2"
bind MOUSE5 +laser


That is pretty much what I have binded to my mouse, I'd give it a try when you get the new mouse.

Thanks for to all the answers!

I send e-mail to razer and received reply:
There aren't any Osx drivers for copperhead
But there is some for Razer|Prosolution.
It seems to me that it would be easier to order mouse like razer v1.6 than
g5 or copperhead and some thridparty software like steermouse.
It should be equal to diamondback and suitable for game playing, right?
http://www.razerpro.com//index.php?opti ... &Itemid=45

And I will definitely add those binds after I get a brand-new mice.
(I've already read most beginners guide of that topic, and I always welcome tips!)

That looks like a good pick!
I would have bought a Razer, but I cheaped out. Maybe next time

That one seems to be the diamond back in white.. that and the blue light looks quite cool though.

yeah good choice. Mine looks like a cheaper form of that. (mabie because it is?)

Hi there!

It eventually came: Brand new RazerPro mice & ProPad for it .

Though, every time I try change settings from System Preferance -> Razer V1.6.5 driver, mouse cursor slows down so that cursor barely moves. Perhaps it's because settings from keyboard & mouse are reseted somehow?

Can some one who uses razer tell me what kind adjustment he/she is using while playing:
Sensivity, acceleration, button configuration etc.. Of course I will experiment my self, but any help will be appreciated!

I found already some really usefull stuff here:
http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.ph ... ight=binds

Conan The Librarian wrote:Though, every time I try change settings from System Preferance -> Razer V1.6.5 driver, mouse cursor slows down so that cursor barely moves. Perhaps it's because settings from keyboard & mouse are reseted somehow?

Do you mean the mouse cursor in windows? The one in Nexuiz should not really be affected.. Back when i still used windows i never had much problems with the razer software. But the razer software also changed the speed settings in the "general" windows mouse settings.. maybe that conflicts for you.

yeah, my bad. I meant that cursor slows down at MacOSX desk. It looks like that every time I use razer software, it makes all settings to go at minium at "general" keyboard & mouse settings.

Is assiging a key to the buttons from razer software, the only way to make mouses side buttons work in a game - and then bind those keys in the game?

Conan The Librarian wrote:Is assiging a key to the buttons from razer software, the only way to make mouses side buttons work in a game - and then bind those keys in the game?

There is a chance that your extra buttons are working without that, but i don't know if anyone ever tested that on mac...
On windows only nexuiz.exe supports extra buttons, the SDL binary doesn't. On Linux both binaries support the thumb buttons of my mouse, but i guess that's only because the SDL library has been patched in debian (and probably most other linux distributions) to support more mouse buttons. So just try both binaries and see if they work...

So just try both binaries and see if they work...

Can you please, specify how to work with those binaries?

Conan The Librarian wrote:Can you please, specify how to work with those binaries?

Just run Nexuiz and see if you can assign a function to one of those buttons in the controls menu. If that doesn't work, try Nexuiz-SDL. I hope one of them will work, but i just had a quick look at the source and as far as i can see, the native osx version doesn't seem to support more than 3 mouse buttons.

But assigning characters to the mouse buttons worked fine in windows.. i used ] and \ as i just can't reach those buttons on my keyboard. That even worked in older games so it quite ok.

Thanks for all the answers.

Solution for that problem with "general" settings was... to install exactly same razer software again.

Just run Nexuiz and see if you can assign a function to one of those buttons in the controls menu

-> that don't work. It doesen't recognize Mouse4 buttons etc. It offers Aux/1 option only.
How can I manipulate that Nexuiz-SDL?

I'm sure he means you should start the SDL variant of Nexuiz.. there are two nexuiz and nexuiz-sdl. Both use different methods to access the hardware. The first uses more 'native' Ways to access the hardware while the other uses libSDL to do that.
I did not really use a mac so far but you should be easily possible to find out how to start the 'other' variant..
Or is the razer software is anything like the one in windows you can 'put keys on the mouse buttons'.. if you press a mouse button it then acts as if you had pressed that key on the keyboard. And you should then be able to use it in Nexuiz.