Mechwarrior 4 and 5 button mice....MS Intellimouse Optical in particular

[pdm]

Howdy,

Just have a problem here with MW4 and my 5 button MS mouse.

When I goto configure the controls, as anyone who has played MWx before knows is VERY important to gameplay, to my joy I can see that mouse buttons 4 & 5 are assigned to forward/backward weapon group.

My problemn is that I can't reassign them.
I can use them in the game, but I just want to make buttons 4/5 something else.

I see it as......(please feel free to correct me)

...buttons 4/5 have been assigned to the above functions by default, and in the controls setup, it can't see my 4/5 buttons.

...BUT, when in the game, it can see them again / OR when in the game, it can't see them but can recieve info from them???(dubious)


AARRRGGGHHH

The game was **** made by M$, they should have fixed that bit up.

Also.....people might suggest mapping the mouse 4/5 buttons to a keyboard function and using that....it works, but then I can't have the standard keyboard key assigned to it, which is not going to help me.

Anyway, I'm hoping someone else has / had this problem, and can help

Cheers,

Pat.

[pdm]

pleeeeaaaaaaaaaase

Someone MUST haver this game and a MS Intellieye Optical...somewhere????

How about someone posts a link to a site with a mw4 forum.....(haven't been able to find one of them either, now THAT would be appreciated as well)

Kewlies,

...pdm

[Death To Mel]

I really feel for you. I got a similar mouse any have the same problem http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif Maybe there is a config file you can edit http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Death To Mel (edited 12-16-2000).]