I use ControllerMate, it costs you money but it is by far the best mouse driver I have ever seen (and cheaper than usboverdrive). You can program seperate acceleration curves for each application, rebind buttons on both keyboard and mouse and even program very sophisticated macros through an UI. Never seen anything like it.

Quixoticism

United States80 Posts

September 13 2010 21:36 GMT

#23

Apple has horrible mouse acceleration. On my parents iMac I installed this little beauty.

http://triq.net/software/mouse-acceleration-preference-pane-mac-os-x

It's free and works well. I don't know how it compares to the other things that are out there, but it makes a world of difference over the default settings.

rane

Finland17 Posts

September 13 2010 21:59 GMT

#24

USB Overdrive definitely didn't remove the acceleration for me, Steermouse on the other hand did. Still, I had to install Windows because I couldn't get used to OS X's inherent mouse lag (it's really noticeable).

Wartortle

Australia504 Posts

November 01 2010 05:45 GMT

#25

i know this thread is fairly old but i just bought a razer deathadder and was having a lot of problems with it so i thought i would share what ive found.

on razer mice, once u download the driver software you can change your mouses USB polling rate to 125. this setting disables the Mac problems and allows you to use the mouse nicely.

it may also be noted that you must change your mac systems mouse settings everytime you change something in the razer mouse driver settings. this has solved the problem for me.

BenKen

United States860 Posts

November 01 2010 07:10 GMT

#26

On September 14 2010 05:47 iEchoic wrote:
MacBook pro owner here as well.

Windows 7 + bootcamp for gaming = your solution.

Yep. I don't use my Win 7 partition for anything but gaming. It's worth the minute one it takes to boot out of OS X and into Win 7, and unless you have a brand new beast of a Mac, you'll always get better performance with SC2 in windows since it's just optimized better for Direct X then it is for Open GL. For example, my early 2009 MBP can only run reliably in all low settings Mac side, but runs everything medium just fine pushing a 24in monitor at a much higher resolution on windows side.

Goobus

Hong Kong587 Posts

November 01 2010 07:21 GMT

#27

USB Overdrive works great. You don't need to pay $20 to use it. The $20 is only so that the annoying message goes away every time you open the driver from System Preferences.

ishboh

United States954 Posts

November 01 2010 19:59 GMT

#28

this thread is awesome, i hope some of this works for me, because my micro has suffered greatly since my purchase of my macbook

HaruHaru

United States988 Posts

November 08 2010 04:15 GMT

#29

I've been having to use bootcamp to play sc every single time. USB overdrive does NOT work. there is still mouse acceleration

Ethics

22 Posts

November 08 2010 04:23 GMT

#30

Overdrive works with me. I have a Razer Orochi and it seemed that the drivers interfered w/ Overdrive. I uninstalled the drivers, reinstalled Overdrive, and voila, no acceleration.

Danzepol

United States211 Posts

November 08 2010 04:28 GMT

#31

im gonna have to go along with everyone else.

bootcamp is the way to go.

TossFloss

Canada606 Posts

November 08 2010 04:48 GMT

#32

FYI SC2 runs very very well under WINE in Ubuntu - better than OSX actually. I'm playing with a low end GeForce 9400 GT and can 1v1 ladder smoothly.

Edit: Just wanted to point out an alternative to shelling out hundreds of dollars for Windows 7. Ubuntu is free and IMO way better.

iCoy

United States5 Posts

May 18 2011 23:51 GMT

#33

Ok guys I have figured it out!

I have been working at this problem for many weeks with minimal success until I found this out by accident. It isn't the greatest solution, but it is one and hell its about time.

As far as i know this will work any mouse, I have tried it on two so far (thats all I have so I will let you guys do the extensive research) and had success with both. What you need for a razor mouse (or any mouse with its own software) is to download and install the software and disable mouse acceleration from within the program. Then from here all you need to do is open up StarCraft 2 and make it fullscreen. You should notice all of your settings have been lost. Fear Not! If you unplug your mouse and replug it in again, the software you have downloaded will override StarCraft 2 and revert back to no acceleration. This will mean that your mouse speed and such will be dictated by the 3rd party software and the StarCraft 2 tracking speed will be useless.

If you don't have a mouse with 3rd party drivers, you aren't out of luck. If you download USB Overdrive it will act as your 3rd party software and override StarCraft 2 with the same process. Make sure the "acceleration" box is checked and the slider is set to the lowest. Then load Starcraft 2 up and then unplug your mouse and replug it.

USB Overdrive:

http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html

This should solve your mac mouse acceleration problems! It certainly did for me! If you have any questions PM me.

GLHF

BadWolf0

United States300 Posts

May 19 2011 15:16 GMT

#34

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=194668: That little free program solved my problems. I got a Razer orochi almost only for the drivers, thinking they would fix the problem and while they made it better they did not fix it. I also used USB overdrive and replugging in my mouse but it became annoying. This program is (for me) a perfect fix I installed it and it kept working.

Logan_ps

United Kingdom118 Posts

October 06 2011 21:46 GMT

#35

Has anyone tried Decelerator? It's a tiny app from the apple app store, specifically claiming to solve this. I've just installed it and played a quick game of SC2 - it works well *I think* - just need to play more before I can say if it's buggy or not. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/decelerate/id449448909?mt=12

So far, I can recommend it - I can't wait to play some TF2 now - I've really noticed how much worse I am playing it on a Mac ; when it comes to the precision of rocket jumps or sniper play. Maybe there is hope for my Micro yet