Guild Wars 2

Last week I was able to use all the buttons of my mouse in-game. Now I can not get any of the extra buttons to work.

Uninstall and reinstall the drivers / software that came with your mouse. You may need to update to the newest version via the Steel Series website.

That won’t help, I think. My WoW Cataclysm Mouse worked perfectly back in BWE1, but in the next test it stopped working and hasn’t worked since. Other people with multi-button mice (like Nagas) also complained on the old beta forums about this. We never got a reply.

Oh and BTW, there ARE no newer drivers than what I have for my mouse.

great way to get all buttons working is to map mouse buttons to keyboard keys with something like:

http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm

works great, no need to use clunky manufacturer mouse software.

mouse really shouldn’t need any additional drivers, windows provides the basic ones that should have all buttons accessible.

Thanks for the tip, but:

A) Mapping buttons to keys is all that the steelseries software does, too. Well, there’s ingame support for WoW, but that’s never helped in other games, and they have all worked fine with just reading button presses as keys.

B) That software you linked only supports up to 5 buttons as far as I can tell. GW2 recognizes the first 5 just fine, since it seems to assume that mice have up to 5. It’s the remaining 9 that concern me.

Someone else suggested that Arenanet is blocking these mice, intentionally or not, since the game is reading the commands as macros (which they are – my steelseries software can record more complex combinations than the simple key presses I use it for) and thinks it’s a bot. But without any confirmation it’s hard to be sure what’s going on.

I am facing the same problem, but I made my own workaround using “World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm™ MMO Gaming Mouse” software with the assignment of predefined Wow commands, for example you could assign wow action butons 1-10 to your mouse buttons.

It isn’t a solution, but will solve the problem!

After days of it not working it just started working again. I don’t get it. <shrugs>

Nucleus Quantum.8243:

I am facing the same problem, but I made my own workaround using “World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm™ MMO Gaming Mouse” software with the assignment of predefined Wow commands, for example you could assign wow action butons 1-10 to your mouse buttons.

It isn’t a solution, but will solve the problem!

Thank you. That workaround made my day.