Weird Problem - Mouse Pointer speed changes

[cartmanis]

Hi,

This is starting to bug me enough to see if I can find a solution

I usually play on my Dell XPS laptop. Works great, but I have one annoying issue.
Using a potion, or a wand seems to mess with my mouse pointer speed.

Example, playing my ranger last night, and was switching between quaffing a cure serious or using a cure moderate wand to heal. I would use the wand, and my pointer would be crawling, take forever to get to anything. Solution, go to windows, and adjust the pointer speed up to the high end so that the pointer would track normally agian. I go back to playing , things are normal, but take a potion and now my mouse is hopped up on speed, and the littlest movement sends the pointer flying. Back out to windows, adjust the pointer speed down to the low end of the scale and things are back to normal until I hit a wand again.

It is a bit frustrating, and really, how much sense does an action in the game affecting your pointer speed make? The speed change isn't just in game, it affects the setting in windows as well.

Thought I'd bounce that one off of here, and see if there is anything I can do.

Mouse is a Logitech MX518, corded mouse. Dell XPS M1710
Windows XP.
Been happening for a long time (months), just not as consistently annoying as it was last night.

[Osharan_Tregarth]

How are you using these wands or potions? Which exact keys are you using?

That brand of mouse has a couple of buttons next to the scroll wheel, that are by default setup to change your mouse movement sensitivity. It's mainly for other style games....

It seems that you might be accidently hitting one of those, or that somehow your mouse settings have been swapped around so that one of the other buttons is changing the sensitivity.

Adjustable Sensitivity: Shift from pixel-precise targeting to high-G maneuvers, without pausing the action.

[Altumus]

does the "mouse" speed effect the touch pad at all? or only the mouse?

[cartmanis]

How are you using these wands or potions? Which exact keys are you using?

That brand of mouse has a couple of buttons next to the scroll wheel, that are by default setup to change your mouse movement sensitivity. It's mainly for other style games....

It seems that you might be accidently hitting one of those, or that somehow your mouse settings have been swapped around so that one of the other buttons is changing the sensitivity.

Good thought. I have those keys re-mapped to keystroke assignments. In this case 8 and 9. But I do use those buttons to to activate hotbar selections for me, which can be potions and wands, but it happens when I have the wands and such in other hotbar positions/button combinations as well. I tested using them for other things, like swapping weapons and such, but doesn't have the same results.

[cartmanis]

does the "mouse" speed effect the touch pad at all? or only the mouse?

I'll have to check that one, I'm not sure. I seem to remember checking that once, and it seeming to have changed as well, but I'm not 100% on that.