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[Esoteria]

I'll try to keep this brief.

Basically I need to adjust my mouse sensitivity for a certain game (not open source). I figured I'd try adjusting the Windows mouse sensitivity to compensate.

I did some hunting, and I went ahead and made a script that successfully changes the registry key "mousesensitivity" under the current user and then sends WM_SETTINGCHANGE.

The problem is that while the registry is updated (I see an hourglass pointer very briefly when it broadcasts), my mouse doesn't move any faster.

Now, I know I'm modifying the correct setting because I adjusted it using the control panel and refreshed RegEdit, and sure enough there it is: mousesensitivity value changes.

20 is the value I had set (the fastest Windows would allow through the control panel), and I was trying to set it to 60. I figured maybe 60 was out of bounds and just wasn't accepted (even though the key changed), so I tried changing it to 10. Well, again, the value changed, but the mouse movement didn't.

Maybe I'm missing something... or maybe I'm going about it the wrong way. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, especially to Chris and the other very helpful guys here.

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highsensitivity := 10

;RegRead, normalsensitivity, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Mouse, MouseSensitivity
normalsensitivity := 20

^!h::
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Mouse, MouseSensitivity, %highsensitivity%
SendMessage, 0x1A,,,, ahk_id 0xFFFF ; 0x1A is WM_SETTINGCHANGE

return

^!n::
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Mouse, MouseSensitivity, %normalsensitivity%
SendMessage, 0x1A,,,, ahk_id 0xFFFF ; 0x1A is WM_SETTINGCHANGE
return
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[SKAN]

[Esoteria]

Wow. Very wow. Fast reply and more clear than I could possibly have asked for. Even a link to more info on system parameters! You rock tremendously.

And it definitely works. The only problem is that it doesn't affect my mouse speed in the full screen application. I would normally pass this off as "Oh dang, the game doesn't let me change it in game. It's not in the source code, so there's no real way to do it except by switching out drivers" or something like that. The strange thing, though, is that it works normally on other machines. Now, I have the sensitivity at maximum here on the laptop, so maybe this program and other similar ones defaults to a certain sensitivity and ignores the Windows settings (actually, that would seem obvious at this point). In that case the question is why is my _default_ mouse sensitivity so low on this mouse/laptop combination, and... the real question...

...is there any way to up the mouse sensitivity beyond the threshold (perhaps by going to a lower level)?

Very helpful already, and thanks again.

[ivanw]

Something to share on the subject with a simple script to toggle between low and user sensitivity:

[BETLOG]

You might also consider looking into "USB sample rate"

[ivanw]

[BETLOG]

There are quite a few articles on this, just be aware that if you use some of them, even just the mouse analysis drivers, it's possible they can mess up your core OS mouse driver.... as i suspect happened to mine a while back, resuulting in a lot of double clicking when i only clicked once.
Completely removing the USB mouse device and it's driver, and reinstalling it and it's software wseems to have fixed it, but exercise a bit of caution.
Expect to need to reinstall mouse stuff.
(So learn how to navigate your OS without a mouse, or have a spare PS2 one on hand)

[BETLOG]

I found this interface least painful for easily changing the driver and sampling rate:
http://files.filefront.com/usbmrs11exe/;6313268;;/fileinfo.html


MouseRateChecker is handy for a simple chekc of your mouse sampling rates:
http://tscherwitschke.de/mouseratechecker.html

..and MiceJudge shows a good graph so you can see how 'lossy' your mouse hardware is. (and is possibly what screwed up my drivers)
http://www.a4tech.com/en/micejudge-en.asp


Before you change anything, check how much CPU you currently use by starting taskmanager (ctrl-shift-esc) and set :
view -> update speed -> high
then move your mouse around like crazy for a few seconds to see what kind of CPU impact there is.
Repeat for comparison after increasing USB sampling rates.

[johnsom]

Thanks ivanw your code worked great for me.

[bitcloud]

is there a way to increase the sensitivity beyond 20?