Hearts of Iron compatibility

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The original poster asked about Hearts of Iron. HoI2 is a closer engine to HoI1.

True that, now that I look closer o

 

[dsteve3]

So nobody else ran into the problem with the programmable mouse?

I got a MS Comfort Optical 3000 mouse when I was running a Win XP machine, and it worked well, but with PI games it was a bit jumpy. It would stick and then jump ahead a bit.

When I got my Vista machine, the software with the mouse would not allow wheel mouse zoom or scroll menus, and the pointer would stick and jump everywhere. Once I switched to the generic windows mouse software, the issues ended, but that means no programmable mouse buttons.

The problems became endemic once I got Vista, but its not a Vista problem. Its the PI games - they can't handle this programmable mouse. And no, the solution isn't "go buy a new mouse."

So compatibility is an issue with PI games.

 

[Hallsten]

So nobody else ran into the problem with the programmable mouse?

I got a MS Comfort Optical 3000 mouse when I was running a Win XP machine, and it worked well, but with PI games it was a bit jumpy. It would stick and then jump ahead a bit.

When I got my Vista machine, the software with the mouse would not allow wheel mouse zoom or scroll menus, and the pointer would stick and jump everywhere. Once I switched to the generic windows mouse software, the issues ended, but that means no programmable mouse buttons.

The problems became endemic once I got Vista, but its not a Vista problem. Its the PI games - they can't handle this programmable mouse. And no, the solution isn't "go buy a new mouse."

So compatibility is an issue with PI games.

Most games require you to turn off any fancy mouse software.

 

[Peekee]

should work fine.. about 50% of the developers machines are vista.

My sympathies.

 

[dsteve3]

Actually, the fancy mouse software is meant to be used by most games - thus they make fancy mouse software.

I ran alot of games with the mouse software, but I had to uninstall it because of PI games, namely HoI2 and EU3. That also indicates where my heart is: fancy mouse software gone, PI games in.

Again: is there no one else having problems? Did anyone find a real work-around?

 

[Aidan]

Your mouse issues sound like driver problems.
Did you try the intelipoint 6.3 drivers? This one is for Vista 32bit:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/d...ype=Mouse&name=m_com3000&os=WVista_32&lang=en

 

[He-Man]

should work fine.. about 50% of the developers machines are vista.

It works definatly very fine!